So How Can We Paint Spare Tank Tracks In An Interesting Way? | Tiger 1 Gruppe Fehrmann | RFM 1/35
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- Spare tracks are one of those details that can be more difficult to paint than one would think. In this video I'll try to make them look as interesting as possible while still keeping the effects somewhat realistic.
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Last time I was this early the Tiger still looked weird.
🤣
Oh sh- I didn't even notice your comment before writing mine xD
last time I was this early Steiner was still assemblying troops for counter-attack
“My Führer.... Steiner...”
When I was on a M577A2 in the US Army Reserves, the extra tracks had a black rubberized paint on them. They stayed black for the 10 years I used this M577A2.
I doubt the Germans used that in WW2, but your point is well made. This is the typical over stylized weathering that is in fashion with some. Simulating 20 years of wear on a tank that survived less than 2 years of use in real life.
If it's what he likes, why does it matter?
OMG IT'S FRIDAY and Uncle NightShift is here. This is so much more than..."dare I say..." Christmas morning!!!??? "Maybe I'm being to pretentious...?"
Do you think you’ll ever build a 1/35 Sherman?
Oh yes definitely!
Night Shift 👍
By the end of 2020m I'll put my one on my channel.
Looking forward to it! As a layman the Sherman is the only tank I know only because of Fury and Metal Slug.
Friday is become my favorite day, because I get to see new modelling magic from uncle Night Shift! :D
I really like how in depth you go with analyzing the reference material for this model and you are really good at explaining the choices you make in the proces. Great build, can't wait to see more :)
2:40 in and the tracks already look spectacular :D
It’s an absolute pleasure to watch you work! Fantastic results!
When we gonna see some "Uncle Night Shift" swag? We all want to know!!!!
If you got any ideas, I'm all ears 😄
@@NightShiftScaleModels a shirt that says new capitalist toy, with a picture of a photo etched bending jig
@@NightShiftScaleModels Well, lots of people like Camo Print. Maybe you could have Camo T Shirts, pants or hoodies but weathered and rusty. That would go so well with me seeming I'm 44 this year. While all the younger people can wear all the brand new cam, I can rock out with my Night Shift "Battle proven" Camo Hoodie 😎
@@NightShiftScaleModels I think that the most important thing for merch is to purchase something that has the broadest appeal possible, and requires you to keep in stock as few different options as possible. For example, if you wanted to have two colors of T shirt with the logo on them, you'd need to purchase Small, Medium, Large, X-Large shirts in both colors, that's a lot of stuff! Compare that to say, a trucker hat, where you only need one size because it's adjustable.
I think that it might be worth considering making the night shift logo available on a print-to-order service like Teespring, which has no upfront cost since you don't need to buy a bunch of stock, and would allow you to upload as many designs as you'd like -- at the cost of taking some of your profit.
The actual helpful suggestions out of the way, I think a really cool design for a piece of Night Shift merch would be a T-shirt, hat, hoodie, or whatever, that's olive green but has been chipped and weathered in the signature night shift style, complete with a stencil-style weathered white night shift logo
@@boryancrum2196 Good considerations all. I'd add only a T-shirt printed entirely with a close-up photo of weathered tank tracks. They'd look like abstract art.
PS: User named "Tom" is a scammer, delete his comment *immediately* !
Looks to be the same type of channel like all of those XimerTracks clones. it's an interesting rabbit hole if you never heard of them!
i reported him
I have seen this Tom. He is posting on news channels as well. This Tom has no shame 😕
@@NightShiftScaleModels Yes I've been getting the same "ass hats" commenting on my videos. And when you go to there channel to check them out they have like... 275.000 subs and 1 or 2 videos. WTF!
I'm digging the track weathering, but wanted to comment to say, dat zimmerit
looks awesome
I think the rusty effect after removing towing cable is amazing. I'm not so much convinced with the spare track, but I'll wait till the end.
It always makes my day when you upload!
Ah, my favorite slavic accent on TH-cam!
There's more than one?
Watch paweł spychalski for example if you want another one)
You never heard Boris I assume?
This is very yes
I know I repeat this, but once again: You have great skills, and even greater skills for explains what You do. All the best for You! Beware of coronavirus! ;)
Lookin fancy. Very HDR. I personally base them in a much darker grey closer to the primer actually used on them. My Tiger I link is a pretty uniform dark brown with a large chunk of orange rust between two bits.
Petition to make Night Shift change his title from Uncle Night Shift to Daddy Night Shift
Hello, I am building a kit of a Tiger ll, and can't source the 88mm gun. PS it's 1:1 scale if it makes it easier?
Hi,
I really like your work and talent, but I can't but wonder about the idea that the (spare) tracks would have been unpainted from the factory. Where do you get this info from?
According to the pictures I have seen, the tracks were coated in a dark color with almost a satin finish to them. What this color was is of course difficult to know from black & white pictures. It might be dark blackish grey or even dark red primer.
The StuGs the Finnish Army got still had this dark semi-shine color on the spare tracks almost one year after arrival. If they would have been bare metal upon arrival, this would not have been the case.
I also find it a wee bit unbelievable that the Germans would leave _any_ surface unpainted (except at the very end of the war), but maybe that is only my narrow mind talking... :)
your right, some of these guys go above and way beyond weathering their tanks/vehicles. They just do it for the eye appeal and nothing to do with history. Ive seen a tiger 1 # 231 from the 503rd heavy panzer battalion that ended up being scrapped after being hit with over 100 shells that looked less weathered than some of these models.
Hey man, visual storytelling is the best excuse to do just about anything on a model!
I have recently painted a Star Wars Snowspeeder model in cam and have used some of your weathering techniques as best I can.
I have now decided that everything looks tougher in weathered cam😎 So I'm going to do a series of other models like a car, a motorcycle and other non military models to test my theory 😀
I was on both Sheridan's and Bradley's and tracks from the factory have a preservative on them that protects from rust. They were all a black color. Every motor pool I was in had worn out tracks on pallets in the back of the motor pool and they were rusted up pretty well
. But out in the wild, you just don't see rust on tracks because of constant movement, not even over night. But, coming back from field operations, and the tanks/ifv in the motor pool do get a rusty patina. But it's really not exaggerated. I would think in WW2, countries would have preservatives on their new tracks too.
That kind of thing was in very short supply for Germany toward the end of the war. If tankers got fuel, oil and ammo they counted themselves fortunate.
woww I love the result, are you thinking of adding any figure on the tiger?
Regards ! Stay home Martin !
Maybe it is just me, but your voice sounds different on this video? Did you perhaps use a different microphone or maybe it is just you are enunciating more. Other than that, I love the way you do rust effects!
Great content as always! Big fan!
I've been waiting for months for a wild-Wilder pun..... Fuckin finally
Dear beauriful Mr. Shift, have you planned to work on some WWI-era vehicles? Something like Austion armored cars, armored Rols Royces, British Male/Female TENKS, or some Fiats?
*Очень круто. Щас в изоляции учусь тоже красить так круто.*
Hi Uncle Night Shit.
I just watched this again after two years. It's still an excellent video but you sounded a little more geeky back then. 😁💕
( not that geeky is bad 🙂)
I adore you videos - very instructive and have massively improved my modelling skills and even my wife finds your humour very funny ...but sadly, some of the adverts shown are for me highly inappropriate - selling things that encourage negative social behaviours ...but I guess this is the indirect cost of using TH-cam for free and not paying an outrageous 15.00€ a month subscription ...but keep up the great work and at least one gets to eventually gets to ditch adverts after 5 seconds ...
A beautifully artistic way of dealing with each track link Martin. I can really appreciate that having an art background myself. Great stuff!
The haters complaining about all the different color details clearly haven't followed your build of this tank and its history. Maybe remind them?
I was a Guest of the German army on several trips to Germany in the late 80's and early 90's. We even received 1 brand new track link for a Leopard 2 on it's shipping skid. Being new it had no rust whatsoever, it was a colour we would think of as model paint gun metal or anthracite. On the Leopard and Marders in the field, there was also now rust in these well used and cared for vehicles. Indeed the track horns and area that the wheels rolled on were highly polished which seems to never be shown on models. I do still wonder how those clean track links would fair on the side of a tank!? They must rust eventually no?
Tracks will get polished in mud, sand, anything really but will start to rust just as easy... and tracks will even be polished on the inside as well. Probably more so then because now alot of tracks have rubber pads.
That "Wilder" joke got me good, haha
Your tank is awwwwwwwwwwwesome but the tracks I dont get it but you are a amazing painter you are very very good. I hope I will wever reach your level if not what ever. Its a hobby to relax. Make more videos becasue one a week is not enough :)
before you put the rust wash on do you need to use the ts-80 varnish?
Martin - when you add the rust effects to the tracks are you using Light Rust Wash or standard Rust Effects? thanks!
So you had a video about 10 months ago and i have a question abaut the metal effect. Can you somehow paint over the texture, or is there a diferent colour putty.
Real spare track is usually just rusty all around, unless you're in the desert, because in the desert sand gets everywhere
That sic ! I want try some day . Finding paint materiasl are a nightmare to were I'm at .
I dunno why, but for some reason to me, the model looped back to looking like a model instead of a realistic looking tiger.
I really adore your skills but for me its all to much. That tank looks like it lived for 50 years :D in the end you are the one that should like the result. I will keep it more simple
I think tanks that lack rubber-rimmed roadwheels tend to polish the tracks more.
STRONK TREKS!!!
Most tracked vehicles have a protective paint applied upon completion.
I 100% will take this model off your hands if you dont like it.
Finally
5:50 - Adam ... _Wilder?_ Are you, by any chance, a Depeche Mode (early 80s) fan?
Oh, nope. That one was _Alan,_ not Adam... my bad. carry on.
You are not serious right? these were not supposed to be realistic right?
AFAIK British/Commonwealth and US tracks were painted black from the factory as a protective layer. It wore off quite quickly in use, but I’d expect it to be visible on spare links. As Germany was short of paint I’d be surprised if they painted them though - maybe some red oxide primer.
Since this is coming to end soon is it possible that the next model will be some car?
Huncle Night Shift, have you considered using the Dark Iron tamiya (XF-84) paint for metal? I use it I and I find it pretty good at it. good work as usual! :D
Artistically these look fantastic and have lots of visual interest. In regards for accuracy,they wouldn't have looked like this as they really couldn't. The high manganese content of the metal the Germans made tracks of meant that they simply oxidize to a dark brown-bronze but do not really rust like this. Some tracks with steel components,such as guide horns or steel bushings,will rust in those areas. However,modelling doesn't have to just be about accuracy or historical replication by any means!
Such paint work on such "little" pieces makes me crazy! 🤪 Awesome! 👍👍
Very Nice.... Looking foreward to the finished model!😎😁 In maybe three or four fridays?
It's very impressive finish. Also it'a so real. I have ever seen it at a construction site.
Another great video Night Shift!! Have you found problems using the enamel weathering products on any of the "rubber band" style track found in many armor kits? Thanks!
I feel weird for staying this, but this is the first time I've watched one of your videos and not liked the results of something you've done... I can't quite find the words, but the colours used feel very unnatural to my eyes. I know the objects in real life are metal and are intended to be corroded, but the finished product just doesn't feel right? Sorry, I'm not wording this properly!
What rusted metal objects do you have to compare with? There's an ancient tractor in the yard next to mine with maybe five different colors of rust on the different kinds of metal on it, from cast iron to different grades of steel. They range from bright yellow-orange to almost black, with bright and dull reds in between.
Burnishing fluid works the best
Very good work uncle night shift
Decidedly Friday is the day I'm waiting for the most, and after each video my day is complete.
I will try to apply these techniques tomorrow on my B1-Bis.
Thank you very much for the exceptional quality content you produce.
Sincere greetings from France.
Hi, thank you for this great video (other I great too) it just the right (best) timing as I was struggling with painting spare tracks of a panzer 4 (they are so small comparing to others...) Love all your videos. Cheers !
hey uncle night shift.
would it be possible that you could tackle something a little more modern where heavy rust and weathering wouldn't make much sense. But a way to still make it interesting to look at? Or do you already have such a video in your collection and I just simply didn't see it yet ?! :D
hehe me here early:D
Your personality is what shines through all the weathering!!!
One problem though, how am I supposed to rememeber another youtube uncle, things are gettin confusing..
Awesome Video! Helped me so much! :D
Would be great to see you build another german classic, maybe a good ol´ Panther?
Just yesterday I made a horrible job doing my spare tracks. You've done a really good job there:) and thanks for previous vids, it made me come back to making models again :)
Awesome job! What would really be cool is to see your tiger and panzermeister 36s tiger in a head to head model contest. Talk about an impossible judgment.👍
I burnished my Tiger tracks, then brushed on some enamel thinner and then added some MIG Rust pigments. Waited for it to dry and dry brushed off the residual pigments.
I was thinking about getting this model because i liked the Dak hull with the late wheels but then i realized it was the model you were building and if i was gonna build it i would have to correct all the mistakes you corrected and brought to light because i wouldn’t be able to live knowing the mistakes that i did not correct and while i could fix them i’m way too lazy right now haha, So i’m gonna get the RFM easy eight or the Meng jagdpanther instead.
Love all your layers of splattering and speckling. Awesome textures as always
I really appreciated when you just took a model and. Washed it with soap. I. Would have been terrified to do that but cooking covers my models horribly in grease. Add a cool affect when cleaned.
Does this work for every environment? I mean would tracks be like this if the tank was in North Africa instead of eastern Europe?
Night shift do you think old guitar strings would be good for tow cables?
Garrett Levi mate I believe they might be a bit springy. They do however make great antennae
what about some cold war soviet tanks?
Thanks great video. Got a tiger for Christmas and I've been waiting till I got my airbrush (next week) to start it but I might hold out till the end of the series.
Possibly a silly question here, but isn't there a risk of pulling up the acrylic paint with the enamels if you don't protect it first?
Working on a char B1 bis and using your playlist for reference. It’s a great help
The usual outstanding job. I am in need of a recommendation for a GOOD, readily available, burnishing fluid. I've been using a home brew and the results, although acceptable; could be better. What brand do you use? Just curious.
tank track now is very different it's still metal, but has a rubber coating sprayed over the road wheel path and the tread itself. the outer areas by the end connectors however remain rusted forever lol so short answer: you're right about the never ending rust
You should ad the traces of the missing track part on the turret the same you've done with the cable! What you think?
How did you mount the spare tracks next to the driver's vision block?
What brand and number of fine brush you used to?
Great video, Martin, those were some of the best painted tracks I've seen! You and Panzermeister always make a great beginning of the weekend! Stay safe and happy modelling!
I'm just finishing the tiger so for me it's a great guide. I admit that I am not trying to do the historical version at all, but I have my own vision and thanks to your guides the model will certainly be more interesting :-)
Wow you did a amazing job Martin 👏 thumbs up always brother keep up the great work 👍
金属製ならばさびてんねん塗ればよくない？
6:26 here in western europe they usually have a preservationoil/fat over it from the factory, 1 day in the field its all sanded off by driving and then it will rust
Enjoying following along ! Any chance you will be showing advice on how to paint tank crew ?
Frrrriiiddayyyyyy! Thanks dude!
Just the video i needed! I am about to do tracks this weekend for my M60 Patton by Dragon.
It's amazing to see the tracks come to life and look so realistic when you paint them individually, I learn something every week!😀 Fabulous work Uncle Night shift
Only you would make a video dedicated to a detail like tracks! They look amazing btw.
Which burnishing fluid was used
It is truly astonishing how you tackle each detail. I love your videos because every decision you make is supported with an at least plausible reason.
I like the little touch of removing the one track pin section where the armour has been damaged by a hit. Nice.
Wow lots of progress. You’re really... *making tracks.*
Looks amazing! How long do you let the enamel rust wash sit before blending it?