There the good
David Maier has actually only considered
54 Track shoes per truck chain in his Paper kit,
what I should actually ask him.
Once have become skeptical,
I've then remeasured a few more places on his truck and came across further discrepancies that now make me very insecure about the dimensional accuracy of his Crawler kit.
My disenchantment was still increased after I had checked the dimensions of his truck body and compared the center-to-center distance of the Main sprockets with the one in the drawing, which in the kit is
6 mm too short and is only
56 mm instead of
62 mm, for whatever reason,
Source: Library of Congress (HAER FL-8-11-C-32)
which can be clearly seen in this image through the paper truck body (
1:160) laid on top, wherewith I now have a real problem and first have to put on the
Crawler glasses once again.
What calms me down a bit, on the other hand, is the fact that my truck chain with
57 Track shoes matches the drawing (
1:160) pretty well, whereupon can be built up.
But that wasn't still the last rotten egg in
David Maier's Paper kit, because the dimensions of the
Crawler chassis structure with
227 mm x 93 mm instead of
246 mm x 102 mm are also not correct, which would actually be a reason for complaint in normal life, but that doesn't help me too.
Now I need some good advice, which is why I have to come up with something else,
and why I would be very grateful for any suggestions.
