I remember back in 1972 (roughly) a wooden 1:1 scale mock-up appeared overnight on Ripon Barracks square in Bielefeld; it was designed to augment the Corps Commander’s annual study period. It was parked at a corner under some trees, tarped, surrounded by Dannert wire and guarded by the Mixed Services Organisation. All painted in gloss Deep Bronze Green.
Us clerks, ambling by on their way to work in the HQ, just gawped (it was by then, un-tarped); it was unlike anything we’d ever seen before. Back in the early 70s, I imagine no-one had ever seen anything like it before(!)
Righto tracks are on and that was not a process I enjoyed🙄scared stiff that heat neede to bend the tracks would upset the wheels etc! Looks like I’ve got away with it though🤞
Jacko464,
Excellent progress … looking forward to seeing the completed model.
This reminds me of a 1/72-scale 3D-printed version I built a few months ago.
Its semantics really. The actual vehicle had a differing numbers of links for each side, due to the offset suspension arrangement, but on a kit, a track, is a track, is a track right?
FWIW, you have done a good job, the track tension as presented on the RHS is near enough perfect - i.e. the top track run should just be ‘kissing’ the third road wheel. It seems a little slack on the LHS.
For information, because there was a single link difference in length between sides, the vehicle would constantly try to steer to the right (not agressively particularly) which required an almost constant input to the driver’s steering tiller to correct. Only really a problem on road moves, but it did mean that the steering units wore more quickly than other main drive train components.