In fact, I waited to add that little piece until after I had gone on to mount the fender boxes... 
Fabian
nice wor on your Panzer IIs, semms like a really good kit, but as I saw it in the shop I feared to by the old one with just a few new parts...
Bob
I'll assume that you have NOT cemented the hull top to the tub yet... BEFORE you do this, you should put that small guard-bar piece into the vent grill on the rear-right side of the hull. I know about the pain and suffering caused by my not having done this before I cemented my hull top and tub!.
Fortunately I don´t put the stowage boxes yet, so I think there will be easy to install the small guard-bar piece.
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Fabian
nice wor on your Panzer IIs, semms like a really good kit, but as I saw it in the shop I feared to by the old one with just a few new parts...
This Panzer II A,B,C is a completely new kit released in 2008, in fact the prehistoric Panzer II F with the Afrika Korps figures, that dates from the early 70’s was the first armor model I´ve build many many years ago, a nice little kit but unacceptable for today standards. Good for kids thou.
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Bob
I'll assume that you have NOT cemented the hull top to the tub yet... BEFORE you do this, you should put that small guard-bar piece into the vent grill on the rear-right side of the hull. I know about the pain and suffering caused by my not having done this before I cemented my hull top and tub!.
Oh, my! You assume wrong. I DO cemented the hull top to the tub.
The tracks are not glued thou, that´s why they show some misalignment.
I´m not a Follow-the-instructions-to-the-letter kind of guy but I was doing it with this…until now.
Thank you for the advice and kind comments.
Raul
But that guard piece does not, alas, fit easily in from the front (outside). I had to do some surgery and pull the upper off a bit to work the piece into its place. Thus why I mentioned "pain and suffering". It is possible to "fake" the install a bit but take care - there's a fairly specific look for this piece and the Tamiya folks did not make it easy to get there from the outside! 
And here I thought the only narrow Pz.III wheels came in that Dragon E "France" kit!
Bob
BOB
How I wished hard that I had indeed assumed wrongly! But that guard piece does not, alas, fit easily in from the front (outside). I had to do some surgery and pull the upper off a bit to work the piece into its place. Thus why I mentioned "pain and suffering". It is possible to "fake" the install a bit but take care - there's a fairly specific look for this piece and the Tamiya folks did not make it easy to get there from the outside!
BOB
I'm not sure what you are meaning about "track alignment". They look like nicely-formed runs, to me...!
Now that HobbyBoss is about ready to float a modern kit of this thing... high time for all us Heller kit owners to get them done! And, despite the kit's softness of detail and other difficulties, it can, with some TLC, be made to look pretty interesting. So... do some scratch detailing here and there, maybe swap in some other tracks, and graze the Web for images to get more of a feel for the little beast! 
) Still dogging around as I have no good decals for it, but also don't have any appropriate stencils for any markings I "like"! Here's a pic of the old shelf-haunter, for whatever it's worth... Along with some scratch fittings and bolt-heads and such, and a set of Fruil metal Hotchkiss H39 tracks (a wonderful donation to my frustrated cause - not exactly right for the R35 but more than close enough, IMO, and way better than those awful Heller rubberband things!)I tried out doing one of those French blotch camo patterns with black deliniations between blotches... a black "Sharpie" pen works pretty nicely to create the base lines, which then can be better painted-over if desired.
Looking good Bob,
and you´re right, It seems to be the last chance for the kit
The tracks are awful, too long and not even fitting the drive weel... but that´s nothing new with Heller
As you said you used the H39 tracks...so I´m assuming they fit in there some way?
Hobby Boss made some plastic link by links (and the would perfectly fit in the budged I planed, as the only other apart from the metal ones would be the Trupeter R35 tracks wich would cost more than the kit...)
And I´m also undecided what cammo and decals to use... but I´ve got some time left until I solved the track problem...
And besides, the urge to bin the Heller monster would well up like a flood! Better, I think, to turn off the little screen, pretend you've heard nor seen nothing about any coming new modern R35 kit, and focus on the tired bird in hand! It WILL come out OK, with a bit of cussing and fussing. Hello,
Great theme for a campaign in the history of wwII blitzkrieg is for me the most interesting. Also, I'm going to take part in this campaign. I built a model of Sd.Kfz. 10/4 with Italeri.
By the way, I found in my collection the image of France in 1940, this image will be published for the first time.
Paweł
BTW: Nice pic you dug out, Paweł
BOB
I see now what you meant by "track alignment". My best guess for what I see happening here is that your sprocket wheels are somehow canted or tilted a bit... maybe pull the tracks off and look carefully at the sprockets from the front. IF they are tilted in on top even just a bit, and / or your return rollers are maybe a little out-of-line, your tracks can get pretty "tilted-looking". Also, when you have your tracks off, look at the alignment of all the road-wheels relative to the sprocket. ALL want to be very much in the same line. I found that my road-wheels needed to be carefully moved in and out a bit to get stuff very "true" - at which point, the tracks were pretty well aligned (= vertical).
It's hard to believe that you have the links joined up wrongly - so I think your solution more likely lies in above stuff. Give it a look!
Now for the paint...! Looking good guys...That 35t looks good but I'm going to wait to see what Bronco does with it before I decide on which kit to buy... but the Academy kit is looking good.
Rick
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