Question on assembling 1/72 tank tracks

Hello,
I'm a newbie of tank modelling and I'm frustrated in assembling the track of a 1/72 Italeri tank. They are not made in one piece but in sections of hard plastic. It's my first time to deal with it. Someone would give me some instruction how to finish this?

http://www.italeri.com/Kit.aspx?PROD=01095

Thank you so much!

 

try this site for track construction..scroll down to construction ,there you'll find the modellers method to put together,hope this helps...
UM 1/72 PzBef 38(t) Commander's Tank, by Bill Michaels

 

this tank track assembly video,should be helpfull... YouTube - A tip for model building - Building tracks for my model

 

Thank you very much! Will have a look on them soon.

 

finished article to post pics please....

 

Just take it slowly mate, not a great deal you can do to speed up the process.

If it's lots of individual links then 'kabuki' tape is your friend, nothing too strong (the yellow Tamiya stuff's the most commonly available). Tweezers to squeeze them together are extremely handy too, as is a long thin pointy thing (technical term) to push them about with.

Don't glue the sprocket on as it needs to turn to line up properly.

Expect to swear a lot.

The 35th scale single link jobs are bad enough, but 72nd is a swine.
For complete sets of single link tracks I now lay out a stretch of tape, assemble the right number of links on it, and run quite slow-drying cement over them. Give it a few moments and you can lift the whole track off while it's still bendy and fit them quite easily. Took a few goes to work this out though. To be honest I now find the 'link and length' tracks harder than single links.

The absolute worst track offender I've done was the Dragon 1/35th Kettenkrad.
You think you're so clever to have assembled the 40 tiny links for each side... and then realise there's an equal number of miniscule track pads to be added (I thought they were just moulding blips on the sprue)... quite depressing that was.

Good luck,
~A

 

Thanks for the advice and I'm trying hard now. But I'm sure I don't like this kind of individual track.:snowstorm:

I think I may spend quite long on this and can't post the finished model soon.



These are the pre-assembled models I have which are made by Aoshima

 

as von poop said! slowly does it,whenever its ready ....

 

Nice models wilson3a10.

 

I've justed finished the assembly with some mud weathering.

 

yup,looks good...