Ok, you can tell me i'm crazy, but i found a great way to work with the rubberband tracks. I'm building a Dragon Elephant, and if you have seen the elephant it has a distinctive sag to the tracks. Basicly it touchs the middle two road wheels then slopes up toward the sprockets at either end. THere was no way rubberband tracks were going to do this.
THe Dragon tracks are very well detailed and i wanted to use them. SO i got the idea of using a piece of thin, flat brass, bonded to the back side of the track with superglue. I went with 1/64x1/16 brass flat bar. Thisis produced by Special Shapes Co., stock number 05020. Cost $1.30.
I used slow jet to bond the piece that runs the lenght between the two sprockets. After i let this dry i carefully bent it up in a graceful shape. I installed and cut the bottom track to fit the rest of the run.
And what do you know, it looks great, i can barely see the brass, and after it is painted it should blend completly in. The only down side is that you have to plan for the final assembly since this wil not run around a sprocket. Still it looks good. Here are some pictures. Not wild about the paint, will be dismounting them and repainting them again. But you can get an idea of the sag. BIll
