Thank you aztec, Blink and frazzle - this is very kind of you.

qfrazzle: yeah, maybe you're right. I'll keep that in mind when making the next tire texture. When looking looking at the reference photos of the plastic kit.. I see that the texture is actually smaller.

BTW. I think, this is a nice reference website for building scifi models:

Starship modeler

Cheers
Rince