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Thank you for your informative responses!

wow, stacking, that's great use, you are right.

Douglas doesn't seem to care about using tank wheels flat.

Tank tracks have been and are for me but at the same time, having said that, there are a few places I can think of where they can look great, one is as a trim on farings around engine exhaust clusters, but when they are just laid out on a hull, then no, all I see then is dead boring, dead giveaway. ...

Tank Wheels In the wonderful "Alien Builders" documentaries which I think almost any sci fi modeler will enjoy. (http://www.zen171398.zen.co.uk/Alien.html) They mention that tank wheels were verboten as dead give aways, yet, is there a use for them? Can they be used in such a way that they...

No, I've only used ALCAD and Testors metalizers, both of which are nice, ALCAD is more durable though.