Display tires?

[Mike4xdriver]

I like to display my crawlers in action poses and it's ruining the tires. What do you do for display rigs to keep tires good? Should I just use some cheap tires with hard inserts and swap them out when I want to run them?

 

[CertifiedMike]

I like to display my crawlers in action poses and it's ruining the tires. What do you do for display rigs to keep tires good? Should I just use some cheap tires with hard inserts and swap them out when I want to run them?

View attachment 248150

View attachment 248151

I store my cars with tires raised, on stands.
Regularly rotating your tires may help too.

 

[TeknoJ]

What do you mean ruining them? Is it just creating flat spots?
I’ll be honest, some of my minis have sat for months and although they get flat spots, just a simple roll across a surface smoothed it all out again. I use printed inserts though, not foam anymore

 

[Tunedfrog]

I'm assuming it's just flat spots. If you don't want to ruin the action shot with displaying them then I would either use stands like @CertifiedMike
mentioned or something smaller like hot melting a needle to the rock to lift the wheels a little bit.

 

[Mike4xdriver]

When I say ruin, they flat spot and they dry rott where they get flat spots. Guess I'm just going to go with display tires and run tires.

 

[TeknoJ]

When I say ruin, they flat spot and they dry rott where they get flat spots. Guess I'm just going to go with display tires and run tires.

What brand of tires are they?

 

[Doom!]

If you can slightly elevate them to take the weight off, it helps. I display mine on stands that keep the tires off the ground for this very reason. Your displays look great, if you were to add some posts to raise your trucks slightly, they could be hidden with some faux bushes or such.

 

[CertifiedMike]

You could use zip ties to hold a corner of the suspension up (hidden of course) so it looks like the trucks are still in action.
Get creative with stands that grab the axles for the same effect.
Those stands look pretty cool. Once you get the stand thing worked out, they will be perfect!