Your M48 looks really sharp! Now I gotta ask as to why the yellow on some track link end connectors? The only time I ever saw such things was when individual track links went bad and needed to be replaced. We would mark the unserviceable track links with yellow spray paint.
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The Koreans use it as a quick visual aid to measure distance between every six links to see how much that particular run of track has “stretched.” Throw up a tape measure - don’t have to count the connectors.
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I wound up doing more work on the front end of the big truck. I really thought this was about wrapped up and was wrong - I missed a few fundamental attributes of the engine bay:
While a bit hard to see here, it turns out this truck has a structural frame separating the hood and cab, running from the frame rails up and over the engine, and across, in front of the cab, so I added towers to each side of the frame rails (blue arrows).
The red dashed lines give an idea of where these go. All of this is relevant, because when you open the hood, instead of seeing a web of wiring on the firewall, you see the top of the structure:
This turned into quite a project - fitting the towers around the engine and steering, then up to the air intake crossover, and then setting the crossmember above the air intake, and under the hood along the firewall. No shortage of problems 
Cheers
Nick 
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hi, is this the Super Blitz kit? because i might have the same one i am going to be building for a diorama and was also wondering if the spare tracks came from the kit.
Jack
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Used my Fanci brand rotary sander to remove some material from the trailer tires, allowing them to fit. About 2.4mm each, drilled out the hubs for the same reason.
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Incredible!
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Interesting. The 113 family has a tool for checking each link for that. It was dual purposed- one side for checking links, and the other for checking drive sprocket teeth wear. I would presume that other US tracked vehicles have a similar tool. Painting every six links and using a tape measure serves a similar purpose.
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It is the super blitz kit - DW 35041
There are no extra spare track or brackets in the kit, I had to make the hooks myself and the links are some old Tamiya tracks. Keep in mimd that they should have open horn, but I wanted to keep in line with what was in the box so I opted for full horn
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ICM (48236) 1/48 Ju 88A-4/Torp WWII German Torpedo Plane
Knocked-down some of the starkness of the seat-harnesses with a diluted wash. In addition, a silver color pencil was used to show crew wear on the seat edges.
• Vallejo European Dust Wash (76.523)
My great re-discovery! Two color pencil sets pulled from storage — been there for well over thirty years.
• Berol Prismacolor (954) Thick Lead Color Pencils Set
• Berol Verithin (732) Color Pencil Set
Thanks for having a look!
—mike 
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I’ve been using the same set of Prismacolors that I bought for college.
In 1983.
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That’s some fantastic detailing
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"Looky here - Mace Windu, Tony Rocky Horror, no matter what you call him - ain’t nobody got thrown out a M-F in’ window for givin’ a foot massage. That’s all I’m sayin’.
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Making a hole in every track links.
look at this dusts.
This is my very first Friul tracks. Does anyone build this Friul tracks before?
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Pulp Fiction classic.
It’s the one that says “bad M F on it”..
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Hi guys, quick question. I know the hobby community has embraced 3D printing and it has set a new standard for accuracy and quality.
But I have an “old school” kit in my stash, the Hobby Fan M936A2 five ton wrecker, model #HF 012. Has anyone built one of these?
I’ve read the brief Scalmates article but that’s not very informative and such would be based on the standards of the day (2005). Any more information would be appreciated especially comparing the fit etc. compared with current 3D products.
TIA
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The parts are good and it will build into a good wrecker. The issue is that it is designed for the Italeri M923 kit, so it may not fit on an I Love Kit M900 truck.
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Thanks Gino, fortunately I have the Italeri Bigfoot, Hillbilly and Shelter trucks in my stash ( spent money like the proverbial Drunken Sailor when we were in business). Based on what you’ve said I will keep it and get to it one day (although the iLove kit and Hobby Link wrecker conversion would probably turn out a better model.
We’ll see
Cheers
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True dat. Get some good references and dig on. Nick proves with the proper research you can build anything.
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