New resin tire coming soon; BF Goodrich Radial T/A | Released on Oct 18

[Monty]

Yeah, yeah, nice tires. Now go crank out a bunch and put 'em on your website. My credit card's been kicking holes in my billfold ever since you made your announcement, so get a move on!

Sincerely,

Bob the .gif thief

[roadhawg]

Put me down for a few sets as well.

[Chief Joseph]

The fat 295 tire is almost done. Been busy with stock orders this week and getting another little project for my GTO models out of the way. One of these days after I finish making all these parts for my project, I might actually build the models.

[VW Dave]

Love that PE tread detail! My 1:1 Manx buggy has 275/50-15s BFGs on the rear and 225/60-14s on the front.....count me as a big 'YES' on a set of bigs & littles.

[MAGNUM4342]

Easy, just drybrush the tread. I have also airbrushed a lighter shade across the tread, then applied a wash to the tread to make the pattern pop. Military modelers have these techniques down to a science.

I love these! I will definitely be grabbing up a couple sets. Another way to make the tread surface look used could be to paint them thick, then lightly scuff with 3000 grit. The heavy paint would fill the gaps lightly and give the impression of a heavily used tire.

[angrydawg]

Multiple sets here!(295/50's) Traction bars get ready!!! All fender flares report to battle stations!!!

Keep that ratio small, a true 50 will be sweet. If you err/engineer on the side of small, you'll catch a lot of the "smaller" wheels and if needed, it won't be to hard to open up the tire a little to fit the "normal" size wheels.

Edited October 3, 2012 by angrydawg

[1972 Satellite]

I am way too excited to get my hands on some of these. I will order 4 sets right off the bat. Those Challenger wheels got me hyped up too. You can quickly become my new favorite resin caster.

[Chief Joseph]

I finished the fat version of the BFG T/A this afternoon. Waiting on a shipment of Smooth-On items to start the molds, and I anticipate getting things into production early next week. But I'll be out of town for a whole week right in the middle of the month, so my production will be sort of slow. When I figure out the pricing and packaging options, I'll post all the information on my website.

Thanks for your continued interest in this project!

[Toner283]

What is your website address? I would like to check out what else you have too.

[jw78z28]

Wow nice looking tires.

[Chief Joseph]

What is your website address? I would like to check out what else you have too.

I've added it to my signature.

[charlie8575]

Very nice tire and a cool idea about molding it in white.

I would suggest in addition to bigger tires, perhaps doing some smaller ones, too, like narrow/high profile 15" and 14" tires, which will fit a lot of cars.

Charlie Larkin

[Chief Joseph]

I have started production on these tires, both in hard white resin and flexible black rubber:

I want to build up a good stock before I start selling them, so please bear with me. The rubber version is very slow to produce due to the cure time of the material.

Thanks,

Joseph

[mikemodeler]

I would say that based on the comments here, you will never have enough of these in stock to meet demand! Those are very nice and I will be ordering multiple sets!

Anxiously awaiting the release date........................

[Sixx]

Got that right!!!!! I want/need some of those bad boys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lownslow]

i want some too

[my80malibu]

They look great. Are you selling them as a big and littles set, or separate pairs?

[Chief Joseph]

I have a whole bunch of sets made up now, mostly the white resin. They will be packaged in sets of two, so that you may get two sets of the 235's or a set of 235's for fronts and 295's for rears. Here are some photos of a painted production rubber 295 on the rear of my perpetual project Buick GN:

You can monkey around with the backspacing on the wheels to get the look you want.

I painted the white letters on the rubber version by hand with an 00 brush and Liquitex acrylic white:

Since these tires are real rubber, the paint doesn't want to stick. There are some urethane adhesion promoters available, and just cleaning the part with acetone will help a lot. For this tire, I didn't do anything other than wash it with dishwashing liquid, just because I wanted to see how well it holds up over time.

This is the hard white resin version, painted with Wicked Colors Smoke Black and the white letters revealed by gently sanding:

With these white resin tires, it's WAY easier to get the white letters practically perfect. I did not prime this tire casting, but I would suggest priming it them with Tamiya Fine White Surface primer to help with paint adhesion. I actually always suggest priming resin parts, so this case is no different.

Here's how it breaks down:

Rubber Tires

PRO: flexible, so they will accommodate different wheels without a lot of hassle.

CON: flexible, so paint doesn't stick too well and since they are very abrasion-resistant, the tread is sort of hard to scuff.

Resin Tires

PRO: easy to paint, and a wide range of painting techniques and products may be used.

CON: somewhat fiddly to get some wheels to fit perfectly and some sanding of the wheel or the inner diameter of the tire may be required.

Well, I hope this answers questions some of you may have. I expect to put ordering information on my website next Thursday, October 18.

Thanks for your interest,

Joseph

[Fat Brian]

Now that is a wheel well full of tire.

[Lownslow]

ill take the hard resin sets

[mademan]

cant wait!! building a replica of the girlfriends 81 z28 it has 295/60/15 out back, as did my 85 Iroc-z, these are perfect.

[VW Dave]

I'm also liking the hard resin ones....light sanding beats handpainting RWLs any day.

Any idea of pricing on those tires? I'm looking forward to a few pairs of bigs and littles, and wanna make sure I can swing it.

[Casey]

Any idea of pricing on those tires? I'm looking forward to a few pairs of bigs and littles, and wanna make sure I can swing it.

I expect to put ordering information on my website next Thursday, October 18.

You will be able to swing it, Dave. Joseph's tires are worth it.

[Irvin Arter Jr.]

Just stumbled into this. I am going to be buying quite a few sets!

[Greg Pugh]

This is awesome news!!!