I ran across a source which sells a stainless steel wheel mask set for German armor of multiple manufacturers. This set is made by Alliance Model Works, and try as I might, I could not find a product review on this set anywhere. The dealer says the set has been out for about a year now. The biggest drawback to using it is that you can only finish one wheel at a time. I'm hoping someone has used this set and can advise as to its' usefulness before I dip into my wallet (again).

Don't take this the wrong way at all but what's wrong with using masking tape it's quick easy and cheaper than dirt.save the money buy something useful

Save your money,I use a drafters template,it has more holes then I could use,after each use,I clean it up and it's ready to go agin

Never considered that. I use a circle cutter, set to the wheels' inner diameter. Spray the rubber, mask, spray the wheel. It is time consuming, but I'm cheap.

howdy

I go the way of the circle template.. you can them them at Michaels crafts stores or A.C. Moore they are pretty cheap and with a 40% off coupon even cheaper..

I first spray the wheel color then use the template to spray the inner wheel. Works great.

And here is a tip.. for those really small sizes such as 1/72nd kits or the pesky return rollers.. find a cheap plastic drill sizing gauge. Lots of very small holes for those small round things...

Delbert

How bout this:

First paint the wheel the camoflage color you want, then Use very thinned black/tire grey paint, touch with a fine brush over the demarcation line between wheel and tire, and then fill in the tire color.

Then weather.


Works great for me!

That's good for planes,but try with a Panzer IV or Panther,very tedious.

Here is my type 95 Ha Go 1/35 Fine Molds......same method.

I too have tried a circle cutter to make a mask, just using plain A4 copy paper, only a few minutes to make and it worked fine. When doing camouflage colours, particularly WW2 German three colour etc., the tyres wouldn't have been taken off when the paint was applied, nor perfectly masked, if at all, so a little bit of overlap and messiness of the colours on to the black rubber is probably not inauthentic. I know there is a bit of a tendency among modellers to want certain things to look neat!