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Originally Posted by Papercut
I am a ole Cav tanker, built many plastic 1:35 kits, discovered resin (Verlinden) and PE and went from a build straight from box, too $200.00 worth of extras, yards of research, months of building until I just got tired of the whole thing. But now paper opens a new door, I build mostly ships, have a few aircraft and watching you build this Tiger has me wanting to try a tank again. The only thing that turns me off is the tracks. You mentioned Bristol for tracks. Are you building link by link, have seen laser cut, I like the looks of. Like what you have done so far. Rick:D
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Thank you.....
I have to stay within the bounds of what's in the model kit for the contest so I'm stuck with band tracks. However, that isn't such a bad thing since there are ways of improving band tracks to look much more realistic. Look back through the vehicle threads for my PzKpfw 1 Ausf F or KV-2 for examples. A couple of us built the Gremir Grant using a similar technique. I did WAK Tiger(P) track link by link a while ago - don't recommend the experience. Laser tracks are nice but drilling holes for the pins and shaping the links gets to be seriously tedious (and fiddly).
I hang around with plastic AFV modelers at AMMS Brisbane - there's one guy who hasn't quite forgiven me - when he was showing off his seriously expensive 1/35 Bergepanther - I just happened to have the Halinski Bergepanther with me that day.
Do you go as far back as the M48s? If so John Griffon would probably appreciate your input on his M48 design. He's also made M60 (early model) noises.
Regards,
Charlie