Styrene vs. 3D Printed Tracks

Armor/AFV Modern
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I liked your printed 1/16 M113 tracks. All done watching a few innings of baseball.

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Glad you liked them. Always great to hear things you work hard on are appreciated and usable.

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I should have said the T80 HVSS track, six parts per link.

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Speaking of T80 HVSS tracks: We shouldn’t forget the Kaizen products. Eight plastic parts per link, plus a 16mm brass wire “bolt” that you have to cut from the provided lengths of wire. Assembly is difficult because the wire is held by friction. That means you have to push it into the end connector on one side with needle-nosed pliers, and after threading on the track pads and guide teeth, forcing on the opposite connector will make the wire try and come out on the outside of the first connector. I had to resort to using my caliper like a vise.

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Took me more than two hours for each sprue of eight links. The result is highly realistic and very sturdy - no risk of any bending or breaking. But Kaizen aren’t kidding when it says on the box “Just be patient”!

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The core of this hobby of ours.

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Ah, yes :slight_smile: I have built a set of those and would prefer not to do so again, but not so badly that I would refuse to — unlike Bronco VVSS tracks or AFV Club HVSS. (However, I did sell the tracks from the Takom M247 DIVADS kit because they assemble the exact same way as the RFM HVSS tracks, and I didn’t feel like making them.)

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There’s a difference between being patient and getting bored out of your skull, though :slight_smile:

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Isn’t that what they call medittion??

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