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Modeller Build Logs
Tristar 1/35 scale Marder III Ausf H |
| By Mike Bishop | | Started: | Jun 5, 2007 | | Updated: | Nov 12, 2007 |
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I must confess that I have not really been interested in this tank over the many years. My mind was set back in the 1970/80s with the memory of the old Italieri kit. I even went as far as to build an Ausf M from that kit as it was the one I really wanted. That all changed when the DML kit was released a few months back. The detail added was light years above the older Ausf H kit. Then Tristar announced the kit of the Ausf H which made one ponder....why. Thanks to the folks on this site and at PMMS, the reason why was soon answered. After reading the reviews of the DML kit and those of the Tristar kit I decided to sell the DML kit.
Enter Paul Owen. He asked on this site if anyone would like to build this kit for a blog to which I posted, along with ,that I wanted the chance. Paul decided to make the choice and it would be me. Thanks Paul. Anyway, I decided to get a few extra things for the kit because I'm never happy it seems if I don't update something...no matter how good the kit would be. This one is very good indeed. |
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| Wheels and Tracks | Jun 22, 2007 |
In this chapter I decided to change the pace a bit by moving to a sub assembly.
While I like the kit tracks, a friend of mine in Summerville (hi Bill) was building his Panzer 38 (t) a while back and he showed me the working suspension of his tank. It was the Tristar 38(t) E. While I was impressed by the model, I didn't like the fact that you had to glue the tracks together to get them to stay. I decided then if I ever wanted to show off the working suspension of the 38(t) I needed to go a different route. I had a set of the Fruil tracks for the 38(t) in another Marder kit. So I just swapped out the track I had purchased for that kit and put the Tristar tracks in the Tamyia Marder kit. I now had a set of tracks work just like the real thing.
The kit suspension units work just like the real thing. Care must be used when glueing it up. One slip and it's stuck city. I was very careful and all went well. Let the glue set overnight before mounting them to the hull sides. |
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