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Eric, You've made me sit here and count them!! On the Tiger there are 64 links
on each side, however, the Challenger has 74. Obviously, different wheel
arangements will call for more or less links. Buying 200 links will give you
enough deffy. "grin" the german insignia is self adhesive vinyl on the turret
only. It is Lego on the body. I forgot to take the decal off for the
photographs..:)
In lugnet.build, Eric Brouwer writes:
> Let me start out by saying that your models make me want to shelve my castle
> project! Seeing your models, coupled with seeing Saving Private Ryan
> recently, has given me some inspiration!
>
> A couple of questions...
>
> 1) I know where to get the links you used for the tread, but how MANY does it
> take for each side?
>
> 2) How did you accomplish the German insignia on the tank? Sometimes they
> look like Lego, but in some pics they look like decals.
>
> Great work! The street scene is amazing...
>
> Eric
>
> In lugnet.build, Carl Greatrix writes:
> > I have just posted pics of my most recent model at
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=carl there are pics of the
> > tank and pics of a ww2 street..I hope you like :)
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| :-p Sorry! Thank you very much though for counting. Man, that's going to be expensive! I figured I'd buy 10 sets just to be safe. Approx. $60 will give me enough for two tanks or so! The guy that sits next to me at work is a big time scale modeler. (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| (...) I learned a trick from Chris Moseley when it comes to the need for lots of tread links: You can put in an ordinary chain link (not the wide tread variant) between every two tread links: ##=##=##=##=##= That way, you can make treads that are (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| Let me start out by saying that your models make me want to shelve my castle project! Seeing your models, coupled with seeing Saving Private Ryan recently, has given me some inspiration! A couple of questions... 1) I know where to get the links you (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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