Well, firstly sorry my english (I will do the best) , I´m doing a Hasegawa M-24 chaffee in 1/72 but I´m in trouble with the tracks and the sprockets, The firsts chaffee´s in Europe and Korea used the T72 Tracks? the T85 tracks are used after the korea war? also there is a different sprocket for each track set? and, there is a tracks set in this scale to remplace these horrendous hasegawa vinyl tracks? I can use a set from another model to do this? what is the best solution ? THANKS !!!
Pablo.- [:)]
Hello,
I’m a big fan of the Chaffee tank, but the Hasegawa one, being the better of the two small scale kits, is its own form of brutal. The Hasegawa kit does have the rubberized tracks. The other kit that I refer to is the Revell 1/76 scale Chaffee. This kit has the all metal tracks.
Here is the problem: The Hasegawa tracks are too small for the kit. I’ve built two of them, and the same problem occurred. You may want to place the Revell tracks on the Hasegawa hull to see if they are close. If not, “move in” the idler wheel as much as possible.
As for the tracks, my reference photos show metal tracks in the WW2 era and rubberized ones on the more modern tanks.
For the sprockets, both tanks have the early ones. You may want to get a little creative with a pin vise here.
Grant
Hi, In another Forum, a user tell me that he used Panzer III track for early chaffee´s in WWII, those tracks are very similar but not identical, 3 points of union in each track to next one in PIII and 2 points in Chaffee old T72 tracks.
also I checked this page but it seems than no other tank use the same tracks http://afvdb.50megs.com/usa/index.html
Pablo.