Vinyl Tracks

[Nuclearsquash]

Chaps, I've currently got a Trumpeter 1/72 king tiger on my pile to build, the problem is it has vinyl tracks which I absolutely detest. Do any of you have any tips for dealing with them, getting them to fit, staying glued?

I have a backup revell version with plastic tracks thankfully, but I would like to build this one first.

[Yertis]

Does no one make resin replacement tracks?

[Nuclearsquash]

Not that I've found for 1/72, if it was a larger scale then you get into the realms of individual tracks which would be ace.

Perhaps I'm just not looking in the right places.

[dr_gn]

My son built an Airfix Sherman recently- we ended up paper-stapling the tracks together. Worked fine. On yours the join would be covered.

[Eric Mc]

I haven't made many tanks over my modelling life but when I recently tackled a small scale AFV, I also stapled the vinyl tracks. It worked as long as the stapled bits were hidden from view.

[Nuclearsquash]

What a cracking idea. Presumably, staple before putting the tracks on and then ease them over the wheels?

[dr_gn]

Nuclearsquash said:

What a cracking idea. Presumably, staple before putting the tracks on and then ease them over the wheels?

Correct!

[wolfracesonic]

What about putting some weights inside the hull, the one pictured on the box looks like it's about to float away.