1:72 LVT (A)-1 Amtank- Saipan, June 1944, 708th Amphibian Tank Bat. U.S.Army
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Simon NagorsnikYes, especially if they have been stored incorrectly for almost 13 years....
The problem with vinyl tracks- when the plasticizer has evaporated, they become crumbly 😑
subotailooking good so far. i refuse to buy any kit with vinyl tracks. better for my nerves 🙂
Tom B.Interesting vehicle to build... looking forward to what becomes of it 👍 Maybe those kits will get re-released and some company does 3D or resin-cast tracks for it... if one can dream 🙂
Neil PatrickLooking forward to seeing what you do with this Simon. It's a kit I've wanted for a while but seems to be very hard to find these days. thank you also for the resurrection tips for old tracks...sounds like one day I might it! 🙂
Simon NagorsnikHi guys, all are erlcome!
@Neil: i've bought this kit secon hand, was a lucky coincidence.
Once i asked my friend Chan to check with Dragon if this kit series is coming again and apparently things are looking very bad for it for the foreseeable future 😭
But maybe we'll be lucky again and they'll come back after all🤞
Oh yes, 3d prinred tracks would be an excellent choice for this, I hope that these will come onto the market, then I'll buy some in reserve😁
KollHBMNice build so far. And it would be nice from Dragon to rerelease the 3 amphibous Tanks.
BohrmannFollowing this project with great interest. First layers and the model already looks promising.
Simon NagorsnikAaahh 😁 Thanks so much for your comments guys!!
Status after a year and two months 😅 but I don't know yet when it will go on again....
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LVT (A)-1
(Dragon 7387)
The family of LVT's has been one of my top ranked vehicles for a very long time.
After a lot of searching I finally found one on a second-hand online platform.
The biggest problem - old and dried out vinyl tracks.
These are about as good to work with as raw ribbon noodles, crumbling just by looking at them.
Since they were already broken in some places (and will break a few more times), there were many segments that had to be carefully mounted.
By step-by-step tacking with cyanoacrylate glue, soaking with pure alcohol and using a hair dryer, I managed to achieve a quite acceptable result, even if they turned out to be a bit too short in the end.
Unfortunately, I didn't find any aftermarket products as a replacement.
Built the tank almost 100% out of the box, except for a new gun barrel from RB Model (72B60) and barrels for the Brownings from Master (GM-72-001).
Unfortunately the hatches on the turret (and all others) are represented when closed, but opening them wasn´t too much of a challenge.
I improvised a few details on the inside of the hatch with scratch parts.
For the crew, figures from Germania Figuren (GF 72 WW2-223) were used, which fit very well with the original pictures that served as references.
