Yeah, I remembered that about the sprocket after posting, and it's a neat feature with the detailed hub too. But the idler is stuck? If so, let's hope you're lucky with the angle, so the track tension is good!

Arild

Actually the idler on the RFM kit is adjustable.
Donald

Here is what I meant about the Idler being adjustable.


You can remove the pin inside as so.

And adjust it in to here.

or out to here.

Now for the RFM Track.

First off, the Track pins don't go in very far. They only protrude into the next link about 0.5 to 0.75 mm. so the Tracks are rather Fragile.
Do not bend them in an outward direction or they may come apart.


I assembled them in 5 runs of 17 shoes and 1 of 10, I had to add another Track Shoe at the end.

The #2 pins go on the side where the Guide Horns are. The #1 pins go on the outside.

I started with 5 Shoes on the jig. You will have to hold them to the jig with a square strip of wood or plastic.

The Guide Horns are rather Fragile I know, I broke some off before I came up with the stick to hold the Shoes.

Insert the Pins all the way in to the proper sides as shown, remember they don't go in that far and if you don't get them all the way in your track could come apart .


The #2 pins go into a recess on the track edge .
I used a Touch and Flow applicator to pit just a tiny spot of the liquid glue where each pin meets the shoe .

A Special Note = Don't trim off the Sprue yet .

Continue up the Jig until you have all 17 shoes installed .

When you are finished it will look like this.

You will need 5 of these .

And another of 11


Here is the size Pic. of the Inside Pins.

And the Outside Pins.

Why would you want to adjust the idler farther than a real Tiger's idler would ever go? You could simply change the number of track links.

David

You will need Two of these.

Trim off the Sprue now and join the runs together.

A Note for David , If you remove the tab inside the Idler mounting hole you can rotate the Idler all the way in. Then after installing the Track rotate it back out to the proper position.

It is not a matter of number of shoes in the run, but to make the Track install easier.
Donald

As a side note , The Guide Horns on the Dragon spare Track were solid and a little heavy so I replaced the Horns with some extras from the RFM kit.


I think it looks a lot better now .
Donald

I have the Track installed on both kits.
The Pics. should show how I did it.
I know that there are other ways to do it, this is how I did it.

Now for the dragon Track





This should be the correct Idler adjustment, if not i'm sure David will let me know.

The Idler looks out of adjustment in the next Pic. It's not , just the camera angle.



That's all for now.
Donald

The idler can be in any position between these arrows.



David

Here are the final 3 construction Pics.

I had to trim the Dragon Cupola a little to get it to fit right.

Well they are finally finished.
I've been working on them since September 8th. and I'm glad that they are finally done.
First here are the Dragon Pics.

Here is the Rye Field Models Tiger I kit Built Up

I don't know why they included the AMMO Sprue, they aren't usable in this kit.


All done here.
Donald

Nice build, good to see the contrast between the two kits, also good to see that the dragon tracks will actually sit down nicely if done correctly.

Great comparison build here both look very nice. Thanks for taking the time to do this it lets me make an informed decision.

Thanks I'm glad that you like it, the Dragon Tracks are glued to the top of the road wheels.
Donald