Accurizing Your Panzer IV/70 (A)

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I'm finally making progress in generating some accurate tracks for the Panzer IV/70 (A) in its most typical configuration with four steel-rimmed roadwheels.  

 

Starting with the Plastic Panzer IV Ausf H tracks from Battlefront, I've scratch-built a roadwheel that I've been able to cast multiple copies of:

 

 

I cast it as a tube so it would act as its own sprue in the resin and I could just cut it to a custom thickness to match where I've carefully removed the roadwheels from the plastic tracks.

 

 

I plan to use the fenders from the Battlefront Panzer IV Ausf J kit and then turn around and use the spare tracks from the Panzer IV/70 (A) for the Panzer IV Ausf J (as the idler on the Ausf J plastics is dead wrong).

 

More on the conversion at the blog:  http://miniordnancerev.blogspot.com/2015/11/panzer-iv70-track-update.html

 

More on the vehicle itself:  http://miniordnancerev.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-panzer-iv70-and-bit-of-nostalgia.html