If you’re building a 1/1 scale Ferdinand, here’s a start on those replacement tracks [;)]
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2201696755&category=4078
Can’t wait for the PE set to come out!
Too bad he didn’t turn them over for a second pic … I really want to know if there’s knock out pin marks on the other side. [:P]
Robert,
He shows the front of one of the links in the last picture. Got me confused, though. I didn’t think the Ferdinand tracks had any cleats on them and the Elefant had 3 sets of cleats.[%-)]
Bill
750 bux? Cripes, how much would enough to do your whole Elefant run ya??
Zoiks!
Yeah, plus the cost to have your driveway and street reinforced to hold the weight. Could wind up being an expensive project!! (And I thought my models were getting expensive!) lol
Bill
Dang, and I thought tires for my car were expensive!! At least I only need 4 [:p] [:D]
Eric
I wonder what shipping on those things would be!! And from Germany at that. Might make the inital cost of the links look pretty reasonable! Can you imagine the look on the customs inspector’s face?? lol
Bill
I looked in the one book I have that has pictures of a 1/1 scale Elefant, and the tracks on it definately have just one pair of cleats. So now I’m really at a loss!![%-)][%-)][%-)][banghead]
Does that mean both DML and Jaguar got the number of cleats on the tracks wrong? Is it really a picture of a Ferdinand? Or did they have more than the two types of tracks? I can hardly believe there would have been more than the two with there being only 50 Ferdinands and less that made it to the Elefant upgrade.[?][?][?]
I guess I’m just working [X-)] !!
Bill
Wouldn’t it be great to be fixed in front of a car as extra protection against collision? LOL.
Gee- at $750 how much would it cost to buy two full sets of tracks? Cheaper to buy a Caterpillar dozer and paint it dark-yellow!
Glenn
I am waiting to see a 1/1 scale tank for sale on e-bay.
mark956
Don’t even try to get those on a plane!
$750? They must be selling them by weight! The panzer II tracks I saw for sale a few months ago on ebay were only $200.[:0]
hes got a panzer III ostkettern track link and a hetzer link and panzer III normall
do you think he sneaks into tank museums with a spanner ???
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[#wstupid] (That being me!!)
I realized on my drive home that I have been totally up in the night. I’ve been working on the Tiger for so long, I was visualizing The those tracks instead of the ones for the Elefant! The model Elefant tracks (both DML and Jaguar) do, in fact, have one pair of cleats in the center of the links. (They just point the wrong way on the DML links.) Sorry about the state of confusion in my mind and in anybody elses that I might have caused!
Duhhhhhhhh!
Bill
Imagine what the 88mm is going for. [:0]
“It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it.”-R.E.Lee
The cost of those metal individual track links these days. [:p]
I wonder how many track-links from German WWII stuff are still floating around this planet of ours? I wonder if these were ever actually worn by a vehicle, or if they were factory surplus someone stashed as doorstops or ballast or something. Hmmm …