Call me a silly bugger. After just building my first tank with build up tracks, thought it must be something to do with that. Didn't think of the obvious.
Nice one Gary
I built one of these Dragon 251s about a year and a half ago, there’s a thread about it on the forum. My advice for building the tracks is to start like this:
. If you can enlarge the side view up to the size of your model, then trace around the INSIDE of the tracks as they go around the wheels etc. Cut out the tracing and glue to a thick piece of card, this will be the template for assembling your tracks. Or if you really wish to get busy cut out two templates add a spacer between them for the guide horns and assemble the tracks BUT remember to not glue the ends together or make the tracks up in two sections - top and bottom.
That is very useful. Nice to see that you had the same issues as I have. Started reading, but have go out so will go though later. Didn't occure to just do a push fit on the tracks, will give it a try.
Hi Doug. Found that with the tiger tracks, took about 3 days. Found it something to do whilst waiting for paint/glue to dry...
That, and don’t leave the tracks until the very end. I’ve said this plenty of times before, but a lot of modellers build the whole vehicle and only then start on the tracks, meaning they have a very dull job ahead of them with nothing else to do until it’s finished. But if you start on the track around the time you also start on the rest of the model, and break it up into doing short lengths at a time like Doug says, you’ll find it much less tedious.
You’re welcome
As I mentioned in the thread about the French Sd.Kfz. 251, pins are likely to break on a fair number of links. But as long as at least one of the two pins still remains, the tracks should hold together well enough to paint them and add them to the model. If they get too snaky when building, it will help if you straighten them out (along a ruler, for example) every once in a while, because this will relieve strain on the links that only have a single pin left — which is where the track is most likely to bend sideways.
Because you picked a kit that’s not actually all that good?
The tracks are simply very fiddly, the rest of it is OK but the model has a major issue in being about 3 mm too narrow … The only reasonable way to correct that, though, is to put it back into its box and buy one from AFV Club instead Have you ever seen Magnolia?
Nar, started so I'll finish, was thinking of maybe a combat dio, so depending how it turns out could become a wreck...… The only reasonable way to correct that, though, is to put it back into its box and buy one from AFV Club instead
Have you ever seen Magnolia?
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