Monday 18 May 2020

PL-01 - Track assembly

Takom's PL-01 comes with link-and-length tracks, which I usually find annoying as hell. You need to glue them all together on top of the road-wheels, but then it becomes harder to properly paint the tracks and said road wheels separately.
If you paint everything in advance, glueing the individual links is next to impossible without compromising your paint job.

Takom was very nice to provide an assembly jig (the black track-shaped pieces on the picture below).
They double up as alignment-tool for the road-wheel arms (how considerate) AND assembly jig for the tracks. The plastic is of course made from something that will NOT react to the glue with which you are assembling the tracks.





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