This Rhino has been sitting in boxes for years (in bits boxes for a lot of them, getting jostled and chipped for a lot of them). I assembled it with the Forge World decorative plates, but left off the cupola and the tracks for ease of painting. Of course, half the tracks went missing in the interim and the paint on the resin pieces started flaking (I guess I didn't clean it properly).
So, as part of my project to get my Angels up and running I hauled it out and worked on it. I gave the resin pieces a really good scrub with a stiff nylon brush and dish soap (scraping off most of the paint) and washed the rest of the model, too. Then, I masked the resin pieces and sprayed them black and then gold.
For the cupola, I found one in the bits box and kitbashed a Techmarine crewman. I am going to use this model for my "dudebros" (the footslogging Sanguinary Guard) so I sprayed him gold.
You can't see it in the photo (which makes all the reds look the same) but the years-old spray paint is a different color to the brush-on red I use and I don't have the red spray any more, so there is a lot of mismatch I have tried to leaven with some washes and careful drybrushing.
Not pictured is my solution to the tracks - I took a simple one-sided mold of the left-side tracks, pressing them into the foamboard I used as the bottom of the mold box so only the tracks were molded (and not the protrusions that key in to the wheels) and took a copy. I then used some sprue offcuts to replicate the protrusions.
(For all of you saying "it would have been easier to get spares from eBay"; yes, it would . . . if eBay had had any. There are third-party versions of decorated tracks, but they were very expensive and I have the silicone and resin already ... and it needed to be used up as it was reaching the end of its shelf-life).
The tracks don't look half-bad, TBH - I think once they are on they will look just great for the tabletop. I've sprayed them black and gunmetal and they fit very nicely in place.
I think if I go to town on painting the decorated panels nicely, put some transfers on it, and give it a good coat of satin varnish the unevenness of the mismatched and damaged paint will be smoothed out and distracted from. It'll be a nice addition to my army.
=][= Danforth Laertes
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