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New Leopard 2 tracks ?
haribeau44
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Posted: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 09:00 PM UTC
Hallo, Leopard Fans,

does anybody know these Leopard 2 tracks? For me at least they are new:

http://www.dersockelshop.de/detail/index/sArticle/39742/sCategory/520

It seems that the tracks have different Endverbinder. At least the form of the Endverbinder in the foreground is not correct for Leopard 2.

Can anybody show a picture of the tracklinks and die Endverbinder?

Harald
Dannyd
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Posted: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 09:45 PM UTC
I have bought these for my Hobbyboss Leopard 2A4

Apologies for the photo's but my camera is not that good.













They are not quite up to Fruils standard and the detail looks a bit soft but they are very easy to assemble. I terms of accuracy I can't comment as I'm not an expert on the Leopard or it's tracks.

Hope this helps

Dan
2505-Steven
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Posted: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 03:46 AM UTC
Hello Harald, in my - just personal - opinion there is no need to buy these metal tracks. They do not look nice at all. Furthermore there are nice track sets available from Trumpeter and Bronco and even the "old" track of AFV / Elite / HKCW is still around sometimes. I see no sense in making the end connector track in metal and the quality - at first glance - does not look too good to me.

In my personal opinion it should be good to get the early "chevron type" track for the Leopard 1 instead.
Cheers / Stephan
haribeau44
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Posted: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 08:51 PM UTC
Thanks, Dan, for the pictures.
On an other forum a modeller said that the tracks seemed to be too flat. Would you agree?

@ Stephan
You are right, of course, that the track that is really urgentli wanted is the one with the chevron-like rubber.
It's simply not understandable, that the other tracks are relased in numbers but the chevron-lik track is omitted.

Harald
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