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I think they probably need a little more on the rubber parts, but I haven't figured out how to muddy them up at all. I know this isn't as impressive as the other stuff I see you guys post, but I am proud of it. I will post the entire trukk once finished.

Don't sell yourself short, mate! Those are some stylish looking wheels. Be proud of your work, which you seem to be! Best of luck to you, mate! And may the dice gods shine upon you

Nice wheels

Those are actually really good, I probably would have just washed and drybrushed and be done with it, so as said above, don't put yourself down

As for muddying, try PVA plus brown paint for wet mud, or dusted chalks for dry mud/sand.

 bhamade wrote:
I haven't figured out how to muddy them up at all.

I muddy up my Ork tank treads and wheels with the GW texture paint. Get the brown color. You need to pile it on fairly thick to get some nice gobs of mud on there, otherwise it will just look like brown paint.

Once the texture paint is dry, then drybrush it with a light shade of brown. I actually took a couple pictures of this way back when the texture paints came out, since some Trukk wheels were my first test using these new paints. I dug them up for you. I also did some rust on my wheels.

Here ya go.

What are the generally accepted ways of doing rust?

Also, thanks for the pics and info! I've moved onto the core body and bed for now and plan to revisit the wheels when I move onto details.

 bhamade wrote:
What are the generally accepted ways of doing rust?

Also, thanks for the pics and info! I've moved onto the core body and bed for now and plan to revisit the wheels when I move onto details.

There are SOOOO many different ways that you can do rust and weathering on models. It's really easy to get overwhelmed by all the different techniques. You have different methods of simply painting rust, then you have weathering powders, oil paint mixtures, and the "hairspray method".

What I do is pretty simple, and I think it looks good enough for my Ork models, and it's what is pictured above, so you have a pretty good idea of what it looks like.

I take a light-brown color, like "Tau Light Ocre", or maybe sometimes a darker brown. I'll just sort of paint the brown over the areas that I want to be rusty. Then what I do is I do a 50/50 mix of orange and that brown color. Then I sort of use the end of my brush as a sponge - I don't really paint I just poke the brown areas, and let the the orange blob randomly there. Don't put too much paint on your brush when you do this, so it's not too thick. Then when I'm done with that I do the same thing, only with pure orange this time, and with even less paint.

When I'm done with that, sometimes I'll wash it with Nuln Oil, and sometimes I'll then drybrush it with a metallic silver color.

Take pride in your ride!

Those are some nice wheels. You actually took the time to paint the metal parts metal, and the rubber tire differently.

I'm not being sarcastic! So many people just paint the whole wheel a metallic color, or paint it all like rubber. Even very nice paint jobs with detailing, decals, free-hand, and weathering, but still paint the tires that way.

That attention to detail and the willingness to do the work on the 'less sexy' parts of the model will pay off on the 'cool parts' of the model too. Keep us posted!