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correct leopard 1a4
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Posted: Friday, March 30, 2012 - 03:31 PM UTC
Doing a bit of kit bashing. Who makes the better lower hull and running gear of a Leopard 1A4 Tamiya or Revell/Italeri in 1/35 scale?
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Posted: Friday, March 30, 2012 - 03:50 PM UTC

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Doing a bit of kit bashing. Who makes the better lower hull and running gear of a Leopard 1A4 Tamiya or Revell/Italeri in 1/35 scale?


I don't know about the lower hull but, neither kit gives you 100% accurate road wheels. On the Tamiya kit they are too small while Italeri has these weird grooves on the rubber and the bolts are too small. If pressed though I would go with Italeri's, though there are plenty of aftermarket road wheel sets.
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Posted: Friday, March 30, 2012 - 04:03 PM UTC
I have built Leopards using both the Italeri and Tamiya kits.

I would stick with the Italeri/Revell suspension and it is a simple fix with the road wheels to attach them to a Dremel tool on LOW speed and sand them down to remove the grooves.

For aftermarket road wheels go with Accurate Armour or Mouse House Enterprises if you want to go that route.
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Posted: Friday, March 30, 2012 - 10:21 PM UTC
The Italeri kit is better in almost every respect (except the wheels and those stiff tracks) so avoid the Tamiya one. Tamiya simplified the details and mangled the hull dimensions for rug-running motorisation.

Watch out with the axles on the Italeri one - they can be snapped by the over-stiff tracks because they are only thin plastic. Reinforce them or at least "pre-curve" the tracks to ease the tension...

Tom
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Posted: Saturday, March 31, 2012 - 09:09 AM UTC
Awesome. Thanks for the advise.
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Posted: Saturday, March 31, 2012 - 10:22 AM UTC
not mny are aware that the italeri lower turret rear is incorrect. the tamiya lower turret rear is correct.
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Posted: Saturday, March 31, 2012 - 06:44 PM UTC
Perfect Scale Models has a set with corrected roadwheels

http://www.perfect-scale.de/product_info.php?language=en&gm_boosted_product=Leopard-1-Spann---Trieb--und-Laufrollen&Raeder-und-Ketten-1---35=Leopard-1-Spann---Trieb--und-Laufrollen.html&products_id=42&


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Posted: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 - 06:27 AM UTC
Just got in my wheels in from Accurate Armour. What a waist of money, every one is out of round. All that I can see different is the cuts have been removed from the outer wheel. AVIOD this set. Just going to sand them off myself. Dremel here I come.
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Posted: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 - 06:39 AM UTC

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Just got in my wheels in from Accurate Armour. What a waist of money, every one is out of round. All that I can see different is the cuts have been removed from the outer wheel. AVIOD this set. Just going to sand them off myself. Dremel here I come.


You should contact Accurate Armour, they are known to have excellent customer service.
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Posted: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 - 09:30 AM UTC
or you could wait a couple years and take your chances that someone will release a new tool Leopard 1.
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Posted: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 - 12:46 PM UTC

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Just got in my wheels in from Accurate Armour. What a waist of money, every one is out of round. All that I can see different is the cuts have been removed from the outer wheel. AVIOD this set. Just going to sand them off myself. Dremel here I come.


You should contact Accurate Armour, they are known to have excellent customer service.


I agree...contact Accurate Armour with your issue and they should deal with it very quickly. I have used the AA road wheel set a few times and never had an issues with non-round wheels. They might not even know about the problem.

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Posted: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 - 03:15 PM UTC
Thanks for the tip. Email sent. In the mean time, it's putty time.
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