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Armor/AFV: Axis - WWII
Armor and ground forces of the Axis forces during World War II.
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Details for Dragon Karl
Illini
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Colorado, United States
Joined: March 27, 2003
KitMaker: 345 posts
Armorama: 247 posts
Posted: Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 08:12 AM UTC
I just started the Dragon Karl - nice kit I think.

I'm looking for details to add, especially something for the tracks. I haven't done tracks like those supplied before and there aren't any instructions for them. Do they come out OK if you use them?


sgtreef
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Oklahoma, United States
Joined: March 01, 2002
KitMaker: 6,043 posts
Armorama: 4,347 posts
Posted: Sunday, March 30, 2003 - 02:56 AM UTC
Check out Stugiiif he was doing it a while back.

welcome Aboard
stugiiif
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Virginia, United States
Joined: December 13, 2002
KitMaker: 1,434 posts
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Posted: Monday, March 31, 2003 - 12:25 AM UTC
Well, I can say that the link and stink tracks are best to be measured at least 400,000,000 time and hope for the best!!! hehehehehe. seriously I'll have to dig through the wonderful pics I took of the Karl to show all the funny things needed to assemble the tracks. give me a bit to find them again and i'll post them here for you!! I'll even try to give you my count for the long sections on the bottom. stug
thebear
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Quebec, Canada
Joined: November 15, 2002
KitMaker: 3,960 posts
Armorama: 3,579 posts
Posted: Monday, March 31, 2003 - 05:59 AM UTC
I've just started this kit too...spent all of last night sanding off all those punch marks on those tracks and drilling the small hole in each track ....I would be really interested in how many trank links I'm going to need too...Building this one out of the box..for the heck of it ..Having a ball so far..

Rick
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Alberta, Canada
Joined: December 30, 2002
KitMaker: 306 posts
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Posted: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 02:34 PM UTC
I too wil be building this kit and doing some hunting for reasearch I found this reveiw at Hyperscale
http://misc.prohosting.com/armourreviews/karlreviewsp_1.htm
Here is a quote with information on one person's experience with the tracks;

" Six of the track "lengths" were used for the lower track run.
Two of the "lengths" were used on the top run - one at the front and one at the back.
36 individual links were used around the drive sprocket and idler wheel, plus to fill in the gap in the top track run"
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