Making Tire Smoke

[TooOld]

I've got a couple of resin models I'm thinking of working on and one of them really needs some tire smoke billowing off the rear tires . I've done the thing with cotton , which works okay on most models , but since this is a resin hot rod I'd like it to look like part of the model . One day I was looking at a ceramic Rat Fink Rod I have and came up with an idea and here are my first attempts .
Let me know what you think good or bad , and any suggestions .
If you've tried any other methods please share them and post your photos here !

Here's the plan . I'm using part of an Aspirin bottle for the tire .


I've used this stuff a couple of times over the years and was never really impressed with it , it never seemed to expand like the label claims . Well I guess squirting it in cracks you just can't see it expand , because it really does . . . alot !
This is one of my first attempts , it looked good at first but 10 minutes later it had really swelled up !


I repeated the process half a dozen times , each time trying to put less of the foam around the tire . It sounds easy but it's not , definitely takes some practice . Here's a couple more attempts .



I finally got a couple that are halfway what I was looking for . This probably wouldn't work on a smaller model , my samples are almost too small , but on a larger scale it has possibilities .

[bubbajoe]

it'd a great idea..i used the same stuff to make a background for a diorama i did a couple of years back..it holds up well and its easy to carve, But acrylic paint will melt it. i painted base coat of flat acrylic craft paint and it ate into the foam.i didn't mind because i wanted it to look like a washed out river bank..OH..and once it starts to set up and the outer layer dries a bit you can shape it a little  with your fingers.

[itsonlyakit]

Oct 1, 2015 15:31:37 GMT -5 TooOld said:

I've got a couple of resin models I'm thinking of working on and one of them really needs some tire smoke billowing off the rear tires . I've done the thing with cotton , which works okay on most models , but since this is a resin hot rod I'd like it to look like part of the model . One day I was looking at a ceramic Rat Fink Rod I have and came up with an idea and here are my first attempts .
Let me know what you think good or bad , and any suggestions .
If you've tried any other methods please share them and post your photos here !

Here's the plan . I'm using part of an Aspirin bottle for the tire .


I've used this stuff a couple of times over the years and was never really impressed with it , it never seemed to expand like the label claims . Well I guess squirting it in cracks you just can't see it expand , because it really does . . . alot !
This is one of my first attempts , it looked good at first but 10 minutes later it had really swelled up !


I repeated the process half a dozen times , each time trying to put less of the foam around the tire . It sounds easy but it's not , definitely takes some practice . Here's a couple more attempts .



I finally got a couple that are halfway what I was looking for . This probably wouldn't work on a smaller model , my samples are almost too small , but on a larger scale it has possibilities .

Just add some cut up packaging peanuts, may be air brushed with acrylics.

[TooOld]

Oct 29, 2017 1:04:50 GMT -5 itsonlyakit said:

Just add some cut up packaging peanuts, may be air brushed with acrylics.

Those peanuts look pretty good and there quick and easy !

This thread is a couple of years old . Since then I've come up with another way for tire smoke , I used it on this Willys . Any guesses ?

[itsonlyakit]

Glad you like the peanuts, the smoke on the Willys is quite convincing. A few years ago I created some smoke on a Roth Super Fink build, Ed Newton's drawings inspired me to use Celluclay to liven things up. Cheers