I read Sun Tzu as have some in Dragon's headquarters. I know human nature and can put myself solidly into another's shoes and see things as he does.

And frankly I have been more often right in my cynicism than wrong and its left me jaded and difficult to get along with.

We may not have a crystal ball but a little imagination and careful reading of actions and statements and you can extrapolate something not far from the truth.

Frankly as has been said, we've been here before in the hobby and soft plastic accessory bits. Or even toys and figures of soft material that oozes and then breaks up.


I recently came across a bunch of 45 year old Airfix 1/76 figures that just crumbled away in my fingers. Remember when tracks were held with rubber bands in the bottom of a box? And you'd open the box and the rubber band would crumble away but some bits were somehow fused with the tracks?

More of man's March of folly. We try to reinvent the wheel and are somehow amazed and frustrated that it still comes out round.

I find speculation and imagination entertaining and enlightening but then I'm twisted that way. Don't worry I take my meds.

Oh and one big reason the thread is five pages long is because everyone quotes and replies. So we have these immensely long quotations of previous posts for a sentence or two of new comments. Cut out all the quotations and the thread is only half or even a third as long.

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Oh and one big reason the thread is five pages long is because everyone quotes and replies. So we have these immensely long quotations of previous posts for a sentence or two of new comments. Cut out all the quotations and the thread is only half or even a third as long.

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Hi, Steve!

I include the previous "quotes" in my posts because SOME people on this site have VERY SHORT MEMORIES, and these selfsame people LOVE to misquote ME...

8 kits with Pz III chassis + 7 kits with Pz IV chassis = 15 kits where I need/want to replace the DS-tracks. Three of these can use the narrower tracks made by Miniart (cheaper)
One or two could get Ostketten (Riich, cheaper than Friul metal tracks)
The other ten will need metal tracks made by Friul.
Haven't counted the Tamiya Pz III/IV kits yet ...

Shermans and other types of tanks will be less costly since there are more styrene track sets (cheaper) out there.

/ Robin

Oh and one big reason the thread is five pages long is because everyone quotes and replies. So we have these immensely long quotations of previous posts for a sentence or two of new comments. Cut out all the quotations and the thread is only half or even a third as long.

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8 kits with Pz III chassis + 7 kits with Pz IV chassis = 15 kits where I need/want to replace the DS-tracks. Three of these can use the narrower tracks made by Miniart (cheaper)
One or two could get Ostketten (Riich, cheaper than Friul metal tracks)
The other ten will need metal tracks made by Friul.
Haven't counted the Tamiya Pz III/IV kits yet ...

Shermans and other types of tanks will be less costly since there are more styrene track sets (cheaper) out there.

/ Robin

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Ever try Hobby Easy?

Got mine from Hobby easy, cheap also, shipping to the US very good also.

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Oh and one big reason the thread is five pages long is because everyone quotes and replies. So we have these immensely long quotations of previous posts for a sentence or two of new comments. Cut out all the quotations and the thread is only half or even a third as long.

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Nope. If you check you'll find that each full page has 25 posts, regardless of their length. If the entire thread was printed out the amount of quotation would affect the amount of paper going through the printer, but it has nothing to do with the grouping of posts into five Armorama "pages".

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Oh and one big reason the thread is five pages long is because everyone quotes and replies. So we have these immensely long quotations of previous posts for a sentence or two of new comments. Cut out all the quotations and the thread is only half or even a third as long.

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Nope. If you check you'll find that each full page has 25 posts, regardless of their length. If the entire thread was printed out the amount of quotation would affect the amount of paper going through the printer, but it has nothing to do with the grouping of posts into five Armorama "pages".

KL

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Oh and one big reason the thread is five pages long is because everyone quotes and replies. So we have these immensely long quotations of previous posts for a sentence or two of new comments. Cut out all the quotations and the thread is only half or even a third as long.

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Hi, Steve!

I include the previous "quotes" in my posts because SOME people on this site have VERY SHORT MEMORIES, and these selfsame people LOVE to misquote ME...

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Too bad we can't put in html tags to footnote our selves.

Thanks for putting a smile on my face this cold morning.

I find threads like this very entertaining where we can just vent. And some of us can get a laugh out of the human condition.

TThe problematic tracks will be the shermans tracks from Bronco, from the instructions given it will not be easy to assemble them.