I've heard this is a pig of a kit. Does anybody know if there are any aftermarket tracks and/or road wheels out there? I know of an aftermarket barrel by Armo.

I build the 1/72 scale kit and it was a pig...............not sure about any after market stuff but some well placed camo mite help cover up some of the soft detail?

Kit still in stash, but I'm sure I've seen track after market advertised somewhere - could be Azimut.

Chris

Cheers Gents! I haven't found a website for Azimut. From what I can see from reviews, the road wheels,sprokets,etc. are usable. It's the tracks that are horrendous! What would be a good replacement to what's already out there? This is plan B.

Heller AMX-30 is quite a pig. You'll need to put some major TLC into one of those kit.

Eduard is making a PE set and I think there's an Alu barrel available but don't know who make's it

The tracks are indeed horrible and in great need of replacement.
- GumKa made some plastic link-by-link first generation tracks a long time ago but they are now OOB and near impossible to find. I know I tried

- Phebus Creation is offering the newer style in resin. Don't know what they're worth. You'll also need some new sprocket if you go this way.

- Bronco's Ariete tracks could also be another alternative for the newer tracks if you can live with a few innacuracies. You'll also need some new sprockets with those.

Here's two links to give you an idea of the kind of work an Heller AMX-30 kit require:

- AMX-30 AuF1 155mm SPG by myself Blog is in french but there's enough pictures to give you a good idea. While this is the SPG variant, the hull configuration is almost the same.

- AMX-30 B by Zurich Again in french but plenty of pictures.

HTH

Richard

Wow Richard! Some nice looking work on those links. Are they 72nd scale???? I have found that ADVMINI has a resin set of tracks for the Heller kit and Armo does a barrel so I guess I've answered my own question! And found some good items too!

Both are 1/35 Heller kits

Now that you talk about it I didn't saw that this thread was about a braille scale AMX-30 Sorry

Have some fun with your build

ADV Mini has released a set of resin tracks for the old Heller kit. It's available from Azimut Productions website :
http://www.phpshopxml.com/azimut.shop/CID/144a762ac6ad761f67589ddf5407f4b4/function/itemPageDisplay/shopItemCode/ADV72027

HTH

Frenchy

And if it were possible, the 1/72 tracks are even worse than the 1/35 ones !!

Thank you all for the info and insight!

Richard- I like looking at 35th scale subjects so I can "attempt" to duplicate some of the detail, kind of like looking at a 72nd through a magnifier!

Frenchy-thanks for the hyperlink!

Olivier- As always Merci Beaucoup!

Kerry,
there are PE tracks produced by OKB Grigonov and also PE details set as well:
http://tracks-n-troops.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=3605
http://tracks-n-troops.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=3165

The tracks are rather expensive but what to do


Cheers!

Thanks Z!

I'll check out those websites

Kerry,

no problem

I would like to see some pictures from your build.

In fact I am also thinkig to bulit one but I will start the project next 6 months I guess.

All the best!

Z.

Same here Z. I am currently working on an Airfix Chieftain Mk5 in Berlin camo. Doing some detailing/scratchbuilding now. AMX is a near future project. I'll definetly let you know when I start.