I'm building Accurate Armour's Combat Engineering Tractor at the moment (lovely kit, wife would kill me if she ever found out how much it cost!), but I'm kind of stumped with the tracks.

1: Does the CET share tracks with any other AFV, that I might be able to get vinyl ones for?

2: If not, how the do you get them bent round the sprockets?

The green is washed out a bit with the flash, but you get the idea

Heat them with a hairdryer or put in a hot water to soften the resin and then quickly try to bend them. In theory this is how you are supposed to use them.

Pawel

As Pawel said,hair dryer and/or hot water.I use the hair dryer about 90% of the time because you can keep them warm as you work with it.I use the high setting to start off,then the low setting just to keep them warm and soft.
I had to learn how to do them on my own.The first couple of kits I did were done long before I found the "big A". When I put them on the kit all of the running is on.So it helps to be able to keep them soft as I work them around the ends,hence the hair dryer.(hard to put the whole kit it hot water)

Jim

By the way I have that kit too.How is the over all build of it?

I've only done it once on a FV432. I installed the running gear. It had some single links that I used on part of the sprockets so I didn't have to bend that much. I forget if it had enough single links to use on the idlers.

I used hot water at the time but have found that a hair dryer is a bit easier to use.

The CET looks good.

Paul

Jim - overall, the kit goes together rather nicely. not too many air bubbles or flash, just minor sanding to fit.

Cheers for the tips, I'll get cracking!


Alasdair

Hi Paul,

which 432 kit did you make?

And Alisdair, that CET does look good. I see the CET fairly regularly at work. It really is an ugly, peculiar looking vehicle.

Murdo.

I also use a hairdryer on the tracks on my Cent AVRE 165 .


Pete

Let me know how that turns out! I've been wanting some AA transport treads for a Panther II project I started and I don't want to spend too much money for the metal ones!


Jeff

Sorry, missed the question. It was the FV432 with PEAK turret. It's been nearly finished for about a year now.





Paul