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  • Member since
    August 2003
  • From: Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan
track asembly
Posted by bilbirk on Thursday, August 7, 2003 12:47 PM
HELP i would like to know what you all do to put the tracks on the dragon model kits. i have probably at least 10 track vehicles with no tracks on them. when i get several together they seem to start to curve and look bad. what do i do
  • Member since
    January 2003
Posted by shermanfreak on Thursday, August 7, 2003 3:20 PM
Patience, patience, patience.

These indy tracks can set a person back a bit.

Get yourself a really good straight edge and expect to do a little bit of planning. It depends on which vehicles you are working on. Are the tracks going to sag? If so, where?
What I do is measure the distance between 2 points on the roadwheels. Using the straightedge as my guide, I will build a run of track links. I will repeat this process until I have 4 - 6 sections of track built up per side of the vehicle. After painting the tracks and weathering the tracks, I start to install them onto the suspension one run at a time, constanting measuring and dry fitting until I have them all in place.

Another option of course is to purchase after market tracks for your vehicle, but I'm just too cheap to let a perfectly good set of tracks escape. LOL

Happy Modelling and God Bless Robert
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