Many of the Battlekings that I have acquired over the last six months have been missing their tracks, so I have started experimenting with a technique I have used with other kits of using plastic strapping (such as is used to strap up cardboard boxes) to make new tracks.
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| A selection of tools and materials used to track the toy tank. |
I have improved on the normal method I used of just putting a band of strapping around the running gear by cutting small bits of strapping and gluing it around the curvature of the tracks at front and rear.
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| Despite losing the commander's head and both tracks, the original paintwork is disturbingly intact. |
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| Strapping goes round running gear, small bits placed at curvature of track to create illusion of more detailed tracks. |
Ideally the small bits created should be uniform in size. I used the THAR (That Looks About Right) method to achieve this.
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| Toy tank and lens cap |
The next step is to decide on a suitable head to place on the tank commander body, and then paint the tank up.
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| More tanks. |
Other tanks acquired recently have included two of the tanks from Hornby's military train set, and a Playart diecast Chieftain tank. (More on this to follow later)
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| Hornby Tank and Matchbox Chieftain |
The Hornby tanks are quite interesting as they seem to based on an impression of what features a modern tank should have, rather than on an actual vehicle. Given that I plan on using them in imagination moderns games, this allows me to give them stats that not overbalance play as they will be used to represent a tank that has been produced by a commercial interest to be marketed towards the lower end of the market.
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| Side view and bottom view. |
They will require a bit of work as the running gear appears to be modeled backwards, and the wheels on the bottom prevent the tracks from sitting on the ground.
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