Hello all! I just bought the Tamiya T-34/76 kit MM#59. I am catagorically satisfied with the kit except the tracks are of the 'rubber band' type. While the detail on the tracks looks very good, I am not sure if I can get good track sag or get the joints between each track link to look realistic. I am considering ordering the Maquette T-34 track link set off the Alanger USA website. They are having another one of their 60% off sales and I can get a set really cheap. Does anyone out there have experience with these? If so, will they fit the bill? Should I buy their road wheels also or will the links fit on the Tammy kit? And finally, do the early war set or the late war set match the 1943 version the best? Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks.

Hi Chuckster, i have used both the early and late and for a cheap alternative they work great as far as which ones to use my guess is the late, im not sure earlies would be used that late but if im wrong someone will set you straight.

Ron.

I have no historical accuracy information for this.
I have information about the IM plastic link track pieces of the Maquette T34/85 only.
I bought two of these kits. The first one from a LHS in Bangkok, and the kit was nice and complete. Although the tracks pieces were "skinny", the plastic did not enter the mold completeley so I have some loss to details and connection points. The second kit I bought from e b ay and it looks fine including the tracks pieces.
My contribution to advice on this subject is that I have 50% success with Maquette T34/85 model kit quality.
I also hear and read good and bad from Alanger. I bought two kits from Alanger, both from e b ay. The first one arrived fast and the second arrived too slow long. I had to email them quite a few many times with a few replies from them too. I finally received the kit that I purchased.
So, for me, Maquette and Alanger is 50%

hope to helps

The Macquette "late" tracks are the ones you want. They work pretty well and are an inexpensive way to upgrade the old Tamiya kit. They are not as good as DML tracks - they do not fit as well, so it takes about twice as long to assemble them - but they look almost as good once they're done.

The Tamiya wheels are better molded than any Macquette set I have ever seen so don't waste your money on those.

There are lots of little tweaks you can make to the Tamiya kits to upgrade them. Let me know if you need info.

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Not to bad really but you have to fill two injector pin marks on each track and to make it even better drill out the two holes on ever other one which is the easy part.
I used them on this here as I did not want to spend the $40.00 for Friul or use my good set of Friuls for this kit saving for the Dragon T/34.