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  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Sunday, November 13, 2011 4:00 PM

The 'jigs' that were made by the guys on the site were pretty simple. From memory, they were tow pieces of thin balsa wood, attached to another piece of wood with a gap between them. You just lay the tracks, guide horns down, and assemble each link as you go. I haven't tried it yet, i think theres several variations on these home made jigs. But they look like a handy thing to have.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

  • Member since
    July 2003
  • From: Perth, Western Australia
Posted by madmike on Sunday, November 13, 2011 6:17 PM

the doog

I"m firmly in the camp that believes you can pretty much make any crappy track set look decent with proper painting and weathering. ANd I'll use what I have to--pins, glue, whatever--to "sag" a rubber band set if I have to.

I certainly agree with you Doog.

I build 1:72/76 armour and the choice of aftermarket for that scale is pretty limited. PE tracks are far too thin and resin offerings are often more work than the kit tracks.

With painting, weathering and care installing, even the Trumpeter rubber band tracks look good in place. I cut of the joins and sew them together as a matter of course now.

Dragons DS tracks are no different save they can be glued together!

The smallest link and length tracks I worked with are for the Italeri Pz1 Ausf. B. Now they were SMALL!

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei
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