Kingtiger late / single-link tracks
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:01 pm
Hello,
at the moment I´m in progress to build late-style/single-link Tracks for the Amortek Kingtiger. Originaly I have decidet to build/cast only a vehicle-set for my own requirements, but now I spend so much time for 3D-construction and tools, that I want to make some other kingtigers happy, too. I have thought about to build aprox. 10 track-sets , maybe more.
The links are constructed via 3D-scan from an original track-link and are exact in every detail without compromisses. So the correct thickness of rips etc. is as original. Therefore the links are very filigran and so I must make them from steel via investment-casting. To keep the costs low, I do not want to sell finished track-sets. Only rough deburred items, the pin-hole is still casted-in, but some finishing of the surface may neccessary. At the moment no links available because only the tool is ordered/in production and the first batch of links will follow in autumn, first.
If you have interest, than email me back at op@piekenbrink.de and I send You some impressions from the 3D-dataset.
Waiting for comments and kind regards , Olaf
at the moment I´m in progress to build late-style/single-link Tracks for the Amortek Kingtiger. Originaly I have decidet to build/cast only a vehicle-set for my own requirements, but now I spend so much time for 3D-construction and tools, that I want to make some other kingtigers happy, too. I have thought about to build aprox. 10 track-sets , maybe more.
The links are constructed via 3D-scan from an original track-link and are exact in every detail without compromisses. So the correct thickness of rips etc. is as original. Therefore the links are very filigran and so I must make them from steel via investment-casting. To keep the costs low, I do not want to sell finished track-sets. Only rough deburred items, the pin-hole is still casted-in, but some finishing of the surface may neccessary. At the moment no links available because only the tool is ordered/in production and the first batch of links will follow in autumn, first.
If you have interest, than email me back at op@piekenbrink.de and I send You some impressions from the 3D-dataset.
Waiting for comments and kind regards , Olaf
