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[Guest]

The tip I was given that worked for me was only do as many links as you feel you can manage without making errors. One day I managed 14 links another over 20, took a few days.

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.

Jakko and Scratchbuilder can take a bow!!! Cheers fella's.

You’re welcome

Didn't occure to just do a push fit on the tracks, will give it a try.

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.

[andy55]

Why do i get the feeling I'm going to regret this build. Though to quote Steve McQueen, I once knew a man who jumped off a 10 story building, as he passed each floor he was heard to say, so far so good.

[Guest]

Why do i get the feeling I'm going to regret this build.

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

to quote Steve McQueen, I once knew a man who jumped off a 10 story building, as he passed each floor he was heard to say, so far so good.

Have you ever seen Magnolia?

[andy55]

… The only reasonable way to correct that, though, is to put it back into its box and buy one from AFV Club instead :smiling3:


Have you ever seen Magnolia? :smiling3:

Nar, started so I'll finish, was thinking of maybe a combat dio, so depending how it turns out could become a wreck...
No haven't seen the film.

[Guest]

I asked because the joke about someone jumping from a tall building goes together very well with one of the anecdotes at the very start of that film

[andy55]

I asked because the joke about someone jumping from a tall building goes together very well with one of the anecdotes at the very start of that film :smiling3:

Ah right, it's from Magnificent Seven.
I now see what people say about the primer giving 'pre shading' . Used white for the Tiger, but have used dark grey on this, its a nice non... well non uniform sand colour over it.

[andy55]

Got making the tracks sorted anyway. Little jig works wonders.