Can anyone help me out here, for the life of me I can remember what 1/72 scale kits come with wrap around rubber tracks and which come with individual plastic ones.
thanks
Geezus, what, you want like a complete listing of the 1,000 or so kits out there?!?![%-)]
Go to www.onthewayuk.com–they are a 1/72 scale site and have a pretty thorough listing of anything that you’re probably interested in.
if you want to list them and have the time go for it. Personally I was just hoping someone would remind me and say ‘oh such and such manufactuerer does it’ but a list would be good lol
My best guess is they are rubber-band tracks. Can you imagine all those itsy-bitsy indie tracks? [yuck] What a nightmare.
In the late 80’s, Esci began releasing 1/72 kits with link and length tracks, and replacing the one-piece vinyl tracks in some of their older releases with L&L tracks.
1/72 scale Pz IV links… Certainly a challenge.
exactly have been making a 1/72 scale Pz IV but would prefer a manufacturer that has the rubber bands, helps being lazy then
Some Revell 1/72’s come with link and length. I built the Leopard 1A5, and it had link and length. I didn’t know that until I opened the box. On the box, it said rubber bands. And yes, 1/72 individual links are very small indeed.
Older manufacture kits will have the band type, while newer releases often tend to be link/length tracks. Fujimi, Airfix, and Hasegawa kits I remember building many years back all had those tracks. Never built many ESCI 1/72 armor kits. Pretty much anything made before the mid 80’s will be band type.
Dragon’s latest kit have been coming out with DS vinyl one piece tracks. Some older Esci kits originally came with vinyl tracks but were later reissued with styrene plastic link & length tracks. Revell’s line is link & length as well.
CMK makes an after market set of 1/72 scale Pzkpfw IV vinyl tracks. They are reasonably priced at around $5: http://www.squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=CZMV049