Are You Tracking? The Leman Russ Strike Tank

I think one of my favorite things about Warhammer 40K tanks is painting and weathering the tracks. When I built aircraft many years ago, I wasn’t into armor at all really. But when I shifted to scifi… and Warhammer 40K in particular… I found out I liked those thanks and armored vehicles. They were exaggerated. Sometimes ridiculous. But more than anything else I’ve ever built, they represent more “bang for the buck” in terms of modeling enjoyment, far more than any other genre I’ve built. (Though Ma.K isn’t far behind.)

And for whatever weird reason, the monkeys and alpacas roaming freely through the silliness that is my mind find tracks fascinating. The process of making them look beat up… not necessarily accurate in a sense… but beat up, really drives the fun for me. Gnarly, crusty, rusty, dusty, and downright over the top are what I feel is “the best” in a Conan way. (The barbarian, not the guy with the massive forehead… 🤪)

Ironically, three years prior to the day this is published (March 14th, 2026) I published another video about doing tracks. That version was very similar to this, but I’d call the old video the “basic method”. This new video… let’s call it the “slightly more than basic but not good enough for intermediate and certainly not advanced.”

Sidenote: Someone asked me recently if I ever did “master class” type videos. I laughed. I told them I’ve never mastered anything… not even a buffet.

So, this new video about painting and doing the basic weathering on Leman Russ tracks will share a way that an old man with little else to do places modeling products on pieces of plastic. I guarantee it is that.

Now whether it is worth a thing… I’ll let others decide that! 😄