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Hi all.

I've been repainting some old Ork Trukks (from the days of Gorkamorka, so they're flat and dull, but I digress...) and have been having trouble with the tyres. A rubber tyre is black, so I painted them black and highlighted with grey, but they looked awful. A friend said to paint them grey and then use watered down black over the top, that looked weird.

Has anybody found a good way to paint realistic looking tyres, whether for Orks or other races? Should I just splatter huge amounts of mud up them to hide the black?

Cheers.

try adding a little brown too the black paint ( do like 1/2 part black and one part brown.) should make it look like a used tire, and highlight with a yellowish grey.

Mine was a long and stupidly long process of painting tires in metallic colours (like how GW paints their Ork vehicles), which involved an overbrush of Tin Bitz, a sloppy overbrush of boltgun metal, then washes of black/brown to get it to a suitable grimy colour. Then came heavy dry brushing/stippling of graveyard earth, bestial brown and scorched brown, on and around the trukk and the tires.

I suppose if you did the weathering/mud splatter over the black tire, it should look good.

Nice advice, but you do realize he was looking for help on the tires themselves, right? You know, the one thing you didn't address?

I paint mine Chaos Black, drybrush Adeptus Battlegrey, then a light drybrush of Kommando Khaki.....and then I stop worry about them.
They are only tires after all. It's not like they are the highlight of the model.