Careful with the washes. I used a wash of oils and mineral spirits and the vinyl tracks on my Tamiya, type 97 chi ha disintegrated after about 2 weeks.
Tamiya won't give me any help on a replacement set (I even tried to buy them and they still couldn't send me any) and the am's cost more than the kit. So, I think I'm going to pop it off the base and sink it up to the sponsons in water and make a river crossing vignette out of it and buy another kit and make a new one for the beach base it was on.
Mike
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