Swanny's Models - I ordered an armor kit today....

Matrixone Senior Member Offline Modeling is a life philosphy Posts: 289 Gender:	I ordered an armor kit today.... 03/06/10 at 02:23:17 A 1/48 scale Tamiya King Tiger is on order and it has 'link and length' tracks in it....what does that mean? I am a total armor noob. I wanted to build a Tiger II so I could try and paint one of those cool looking Ambush schemes. Matrixone
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Mike T Full Member Offline Posts: 233 Ohio Gender:	Re: I ordered an armor kit today.... Reply #1 - 03/06/10 at 02:47:01 This generally consists of single "runs" of cast tracks for the top and bottom with individual cast links to go 'round the corners.
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Ultra Hog Gold Member Offline I love the smell of Tenax in the morning. Posts: 979 Plymouth, IN Gender:	Re: I ordered an armor kit today.... Reply #2 - 03/06/10 at 05:49:54 Matrixone wrote on 03/06/10 at 02:23:17: I wanted to build a Tiger II so I could try and paint one of those cool looking Ambush schemes. Matrixone Sweet! I know you'll make it look great. 1/48 is great and all, but if you want the "real" experience go for 1/35! Or 1/1.
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Reply #3 - 03/06/10 at 17:36:22

Thanks for the reply Mike and Adam.

Adam,
I do have a 1/35 scale Panther kit in the stash but it has the rubber band style tracks in it and I have not been eager to build it because of those tracks. Those 1/48 scale Tamiya ground vehicles are loads of fun to build and are easy enough to put together even for a Luftwaffe freak like me.

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Phil Gold Member Offline It's all good! Posts: 988 Wollongong Australia Gender:	Re: I ordered an armor kit today.... Reply #4 - 03/09/10 at 08:56:23 No doubt the Tiger will blow us away with your skills Les!! Perfect for adding to your Luftflotte !!
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Swanny YaBB Administrator Offline Matt, Matt the model maniac Posts: 2579 Sandusky, Ohio Gender:	Re: I ordered an armor kit today.... Reply #5 - 03/10/10 at 22:11:07 Check out the tracks I work with in this review - I'm pretty sure you can get them for the Panther kit. http://www.swannysmodels.com/Blackenit.html
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Reply #6 - 03/10/10 at 22:49:35

I think you'll find building armor is as addicting as building wingy things. I use to build alot more armor but recently I have been on a plane kick so my armor stash has been sitting idle. I last build the Tamiya 1/35 Panther G late. I used the Fruilmodel metal tracks. They are very expensive but in my opinion they are the best out there and the most realistic. Looking foward to seeing some pictures.

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Reply #7 - 03/11/10 at 01:50:19

Thanks for the reply Phil, Swanny, and killsnapz.

Swanny,
Thanks for the info on those tracks, I am not sure if I want to try them since I only dabble in ground vehicles and armor but its nice to know there are other options.
Last year I built some of those 1/48 scale Tamiya ground vehicles and enjoyed every one of them. When I get fully burned out on Focke-Wulfs I might turn to some armor kits to keep my interest in model building alive.

Matrixone

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Drachenherz YaBB Newbies Offline Modeling is a life philosphy Posts: 17	Re: I ordered an armor kit today.... Reply #8 - 03/26/10 at 22:41:10 Sounds nice. I prefer the link 'n' length tracks myself. Does anyone have advice about these "Dragon styrene" tracks, the allegedly-gluable rubber band tracks that came out from Dragon (and now Trumpeter) recently?
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Reply #9 - 03/28/10 at 18:14:56

The Dragon "DS" tracks are very nice looking.
Some of the earlier releases had to have the center guides glued on, but the newer ones are one piece (in almost 3 years of banging on tank tracks I never once heard them called "Guide Horns", they're called Center Guides).
They are gluable , but I would paint them with acrylics rather than enamels.
I had the newer style Tamiya tracks on the T-72 deteriorate after I painted them with enamels.
Won't make that mistake again.

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Reply #10 - 03/28/10 at 23:58:06

Mr.Widgeon wrote on 03/28/10 at 18:14:56:

The Dragon "DS" tracks are very nice looking.
Some of the earlier releases had to have the center guides glued on, but the newer ones are one piece (in almost 3 years of banging on tank tracks I never once heard them called "Guide Horns", they're called Center Guides).
They are gluable , but I would paint them with acrylics rather than enamels.
I had the newer style Tamiya tracks on the T-72 deteriorate after I painted them with enamels.
Won't make that mistake again.

my dragon 1/35 Hummel (early) has link to length tracks or whatever theyre called Tongue

but each link on a sprue and theyre all separate :/ i have no idea how to put them together :/ but that build is a long way off

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