The latest 1/35 scale Pz.Kpfw. IV kit from Rye Field Model includes workable winterketten tracks.
This is partial text from the full article (usually with photos) at https://armorama.com/news/rfm-pz-kpfw--iv-ausf--g-with-workable-tracks
This is partial text from the full article (usually with photos) at https://armorama.com/news/rfm-pz-kpfw--iv-ausf--g-with-workable-tracks
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I have been waiting for this for a long time. If they give me the clear hull and turret and it might be a deal, because the track assembly is the same as the Tiger, which I’m still traumatized.
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Looks tempting 
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Do you get the round muzzle break of the early model?
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Good remark. From the picture, the barrels assembly is on the H srpue. It doesn’t appear to have the round single baffle muzzle brake, Unfortunate.
The whole kit looks like the early G model. RFM might have followed the old misconceptions “double baffle = G, single baffle = F2” despite so many mid life changes before that happened.
I would love to see the late G model with 80mm 1 piece frontal armor, the one without the driver “bino” on top of the driver viewport.
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I guess you can get an F model aftermarket barrel.
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Well, yes. Still better to have it than not. Many RFM kits have options for these rather trivial details. Considering their price nowadays, they should’ve it.
Per say, the main difference between the so called F2 (1st G production) model and G model is the turret with side viewports and loader front sight.
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Could you please elaborate on this?
Was there a lot of clean up? Bad matching? Inaccurate?
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FWIW - The RFM Pz IV early tracks are easy enough to build. I’ve done three or four sets with no issues. Took about three hours to do one pair of tracks. I doubt the osketten version is any more difficult. The key is a very small pointed brush to very lightly apply liquid cement. The Tamiya Extra Thin brush is ideal.
The pins for the osketten side appear long enough, that would be my only concern.
Haven’t built a set of RFM Tiger 1 tracks so no opinion on those.
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I wonder if these tracks will fit an Academy Panzer IV?
Want to build mine as a winter tank on the Eastern Front.
Without Winterketten tracks (with the Schurzen).
As I want to build it. 
No Schurzen, and with Winterketten tracks.
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It is annoying to do. On the Tiger, the pin is not the big deal. The teeth on the tracks is the real killer.
You have to put on every of these little things. Too much glue will makes the track rigid. Not enough and these things will fall all over the place.
They changed the tracks now that the middle section with 2 teeth are now 1 piece, making it easier.
Now, looking at the Panzer IV winter tracks, unlike the normal tracks, with these little pieces, you likely have to use glue on… it is not fun.
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Ok, now I understand.
Thanks for making it clear!
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Those Tiger tracks sound very sucky to build.
Valid concerns on the winterketten that one can likely work around without too much hassle.
Small droplets of super glue those ice cleats or whatever they are called, every~6th link shouldn’t be too bad. Attaching to link and let dry before pinning would probably work ok.
Leaving off the ice cleats could be an option they weren’t always available.
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I’ve found that using really small dental microbrush to apply CA to glue those Ice Cleats (proper name) works well…
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