For Cookie or whoever, Trumpeter unglueable tracks

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Gray Ghost - 04 Jul 2008 09:41 GMT

Did anyone ever determine what to glue Trumpy tracks with? I found my 1/72
M4A3 tonite it's all finished but the tracks. I had gottnen one set to stay
glued with CA the other one I never could. Of course on examing the "glued"
one I was able to fairly easily pull it apart.

Will the damn things even take paint? I have some primer I keep for hard
cases, plus some Tamiya. Maybe if I primed them first the CA would have
something to hold on to?

I've got another 4 or 5 of the Trump Shermans and a couple of the JS IIIs in
the stack. If I can't glue the dang tracks, the Shermans will have to simply
donate parts for other projects. Like using the T23 turret on the Esci/Italeri
M4A1 hulls.

Frank

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someone@some.domain - 04 Jul 2008 15:42 GMT

>Did anyone ever determine what to glue Trumpy tracks with? I found my 1/72
>M4A3 tonite it's all finished but the tracks. I had gottnen one set to stay
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>Frank

no, paint will pull right off. soak them in dishsoap solution overnite, dry
completly and try.

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AMPSOne@aol.com - 04 Jul 2008 17:47 GMT

The Trumpeter kits don't have gluable tracks as far as I know, other
than the injected "link and length" ones.

The only way I found with the rest was the tried and true "heated
screwdriver" approach.

Cookie Sewell

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Gray Ghost - 04 Jul 2008 19:15 GMT

AMPSOne@aol.com wrote in news:f7b1c9e3-a4b2-4292-aafc-900f93076d91
@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:

> The Trumpeter kits don't have gluable tracks as far as I know, other
> than the injected "link and length" ones.
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>
> Cookie Sewell

Dang, I always botch that. I tried dishsoap with a touch of bleach in hot
water. Not so good and that usually works on EVERYTHING.

Will they take primer? There are aftermarket Sherman tracks but frankly if all
thier kits are going to be like this... I was hoping for a quick and fairly
simple build. What a disappointment.

BTW "gluable" was an oxymoron.

Frank

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mrbishop2@cox.net - 04 Jul 2008 21:18 GMT

On Jul 4, 1:15 pm, grey_ghost471-newsgro...@yahoo.com (Gray Ghost)
wrote:

> AMPS...@aol.com wrote in news:f7b1c9e3-a4b2-4292-aafc-900f93076d91
> @d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:
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>
> Frank

What I do is use a needle and thread as closely matched to the color
of the finished track or use a light color and paint with the track,
and sew it at the joint. Then position this in the most unconspicious
(SIC) place on the track run. i usually do this as insurance even with
glue or the old hot screw driver.

Mike

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