Well , while we are on the subject of tracks, I went ahead and got my friuls, and my metal barrel  ;D

I bought The ATL-41's I think they were and the barrel was made by modelpoint. I was a bit miffed however that the barrel didnt include a muzzle brake, but since this is only my second armour kit, I wouldnt really know if Im expected to use the kit brake with this. Fit is pretty dire, so gonna need some filling in there. Pic below, sorry for the shoddy quality but my camera is pretty lame. I put the kit tracks in the pic for comparison, I think the friuls look miles better!

Ive pretty much completed the assembly of the tracks - what an effort! Expect some pretty raw fingers after doing an hour or so of these. I think I got the hang of it though after a while. What I did was trim if required, pinch the links together, and then pin-vice a bit through the holes while they are connected, this allows the supplied wire to go through much easier than drilling the links separately. It was much easier to see what you are doing with the teeth facing you, but this also meant my thumb was always resting on the teeth which is where the raw fingers came from.

The pins still need trimming and a dab of CA popped in the end though, but I need to test fit them a few times on the model before I commit to this. You get more links than you need in the set, so Ill need to add/remove some links until It looks right. Ive left one wire longer so I can easily remove the tracks for painting.

Its quite time consuming though and pretty repetitive, I tried to convince my other half that it was a load of fun, and managed to get a few links out of her lol! 

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