Howdy
While reading over the Tips and Tricks this morning I ran across this article by Teaker 11.
https://www.modelersalliance.com/forum/Tips-and-Tricks/5514-Friulmodel-Track-coloringwithout-painting
I, like others may not have one of the Sonic Cleaner rigs and might have to do our coloring the old fashioned way using one of the products from the hobby industry.
"Blacken It" is the more widely known product but there are a couple others out there too. In this SBS I just happened to use "Black4Tracks" but I do the same steps with Blacken It too.
After assembly and fitting the tracks to the model I give them a good scrubbing with a tooth brush in Joy or Dawn dish washing soap and hot water from the tap.
Rinse and dry.
Now you're ready to dip them in the blackening solution,time in solution depends on the product.
After they start to get colored i'll take them out and scrub them with the tooth brush making sure the chemical gets down in all the recesses and cracks,return to solution until you like the color.
Now I would recommend that you give them a soak in a glass of water that has a level teaspoon of Baking Soda dissolved in it to neutralize what ever they make this stuff out of.
I didn't do this on my first set of tracks and one day a pin fell out and the reason was the pin was all but eaten up so i've done the soda treatment ever since and no more problems.
Back to the hot tap water rinse and scrub to remove the soda residue and when dry they'll look like this.
To give the tracks a little character I go over them with washes of Burnt Sienna and Raw Umber oils.
Sand on the high spots to your liking then add your pigments to match the model weathering, "DONE"
Happy Modelling
Tony lee
While reading over the Tips and Tricks this morning I ran across this article by Teaker 11.
https://www.modelersalliance.com/forum/Tips-and-Tricks/5514-Friulmodel-Track-coloringwithout-painting
I, like others may not have one of the Sonic Cleaner rigs and might have to do our coloring the old fashioned way using one of the products from the hobby industry.
"Blacken It" is the more widely known product but there are a couple others out there too. In this SBS I just happened to use "Black4Tracks" but I do the same steps with Blacken It too.
After assembly and fitting the tracks to the model I give them a good scrubbing with a tooth brush in Joy or Dawn dish washing soap and hot water from the tap.
Rinse and dry.
Now you're ready to dip them in the blackening solution,time in solution depends on the product.
After they start to get colored i'll take them out and scrub them with the tooth brush making sure the chemical gets down in all the recesses and cracks,return to solution until you like the color.
Now I would recommend that you give them a soak in a glass of water that has a level teaspoon of Baking Soda dissolved in it to neutralize what ever they make this stuff out of.
I didn't do this on my first set of tracks and one day a pin fell out and the reason was the pin was all but eaten up so i've done the soda treatment ever since and no more problems.
Back to the hot tap water rinse and scrub to remove the soda residue and when dry they'll look like this.
To give the tracks a little character I go over them with washes of Burnt Sienna and Raw Umber oils.
Sand on the high spots to your liking then add your pigments to match the model weathering, "DONE"
Happy Modelling
Tony lee
