Painting hawser

[Soane]

Years ago I used to use a paste called Zebrite to colour the machine guns and hawsers on my scale models, it’s a paste used to clean/polish cast iron ranges and stoves. There is a substitute online but I’d like to know how you guys depict the metal tow hawsers?

[RichJohnson]

What’s a hawser?

[Delta_19]

What’s a hawser?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawser

[SoCalBobS]

I use AK’s metal paste. They’re made in a number of metal finishes, I use iron, rubbed on edges and wear spots, to depict metal under the dirt and grime.,

[Soane]

Sorry for not being clear, I’m referring to the towing hawsers/cables used in tanks

[RichJohnson]

My tow cables are tiny cable with soft metal ends from schumo kits. You bend it into place and it stays where you put it mostly. I dont weather it or paint at all. Just leave natural.

[Soane]

I’ve just read something that triggered a memory for depicting the steel in the tow cable, the base colour appears to be a very dark grey, I now remember rubbing a pencil on some Emery board and the using the graphite powder to highlight the cable, giving them a metallic sheen .