i am haveing a terriable time with masterclub T-80 tracks , what am I doing wrong they just wont stay toghter and I have spoken with friulmodel and T-80S soon I am about ready to pitch the whole set, any suggestions and I think these are supposed to be clickable.
Jim

Hi Jim,

I used their clickable Omsh T-54/55/62 set. Even though they're "clickable" they wouldn't stay together on their own so I glued them with superglue . (I thought they were injection molded when I got them but they're made of resin). I built the whole run, got it into place and around the running gear and glued them. I'm not gonna lie to you, I did fight with them a little bit. They stayed flexible enough to pop on and off the model so I could paint them. Overall I was happy with them. I hope that helps.

Chris

Thanks for the reply its the way I have been going, I thought they were plastic but Methal hloride didnt even make a dent I am useing gel superglue but very slow about 1" of track in 3 hrs.
Jim

I used glue that was alot thinner. The tracks were in place on the model, and I applied it with a sharpened toothpick. The thin stuff got in between the links. It might make the difference. An inch every 3 hours will drive you insane, bro!

The links take patience. I make the runs in 10 or so links, no glue, and then carefully piece them together. I then spray them with a basic brown paint to help stick them slightly together and increase SLIGHTLY their durability.

The only set of indy resin snap tracks that have actually worked the way I thought they should were Master Clubs T-64 tracks.

I will try the paint and see if it helps, Im getting real close to waiting for Fruilmodel to come out with a set

It's strange that Friul issue a T-80 set as they generally don't do tracks with end connectors.

Are you sure the T-80 they are talking about is not the WWII Soviet tiny "tank" ?

Olivier

Jim, make sure they are making tracks for the modern MBT and not for the WWII tankette T-80, or T-80 tracks for the sherman tank. Both can be confusing.

I sent an email and asked about modern T-80 tracks and the reply was soon.
Jim

I feel your pain, I had a TERRIBLE time with my masterclub T-80 tracks.

In the end I had to leave the top run empty by a few links. Luckily for me the fenders covered this area so you can't see it.

I did try numerous times to connect them all and I just couldn't get them to work, although to be fair it wasn't totally Masterclubs problem. The cruddy SKIF lower hull didn't help matters any either!

I was useing the tracks on panzershop 2S7 Pion so I had plenty of room. I just gave up for now, hopefully so metal tracks will be along soon.
Jim

same here.

I had the same problem with masterclub tracks, It was almost the end off my bmp project,
I dont think Ill used them again. ):


chris

I did not want this to slam Masterclub tracks I have had sucess with SA-6 tracks. just haveing problems with the T-80's

I actually really like my masterclub BMP-2 tracks I found they worked really well.

Chris what kind of problems did you have with them?

Hello , my set went together without any problems, I broke only a few links during the assembly. They stay together quite well, some of the connector pins were even too large and had to be trimmed. It is good news to have friul t80 tracks, now that I finished painfully assemblying the modelfixer version for another model, which wasnt as bad as some people claimed. But masterclub is much better.