Vehicles from M113 family are used by many armies throughout the world in many variants. Initially most foreign users of these US designed vehicles used original American design T130 tracks, but experience showed that they had several flaws. The tracks wore down relatively quickly mainly because of their single pin design and also small rubber shoes wore down fast. The solution came from German Diehl company in the form of Diehl 213 tracks. They had big rectangular rubber blocks and unlike US tracks were double pin design, what extended their life. These tracks were used for years by most foreign users of M113 family vehicles. Recently however Diehl introduced improved version of their tracks for M113. New tracks were designated 513B and feature wider links, larger rubber blocks and smaller link connectors. New tracks were so far adopted for use by German Bundeswehr, Australian, Danish and Canadian armies.
These individual link tracks are made from grey resin and come with matching drive sprocket wheels and two pairs of spare links cast integrally with mounting brackets.
The set comes in cardboard box filled with styrofoam chips. One gets 150 track links and instructions show that 66 are needed for each side of the vehicle, so there are some 18 spare individual links included. Each link is cast integrally with two end connectors and is attached to the resin casting block . Link is connected to the block only along the thin edge and can be very easily snapped off from it without using any tools. Once the link is free from casting block a few touches with sanding stick complete the cleanup. Drive sprockets, each cast in two halves, require slightly more work, as each tooth must be cut off from the casting frame but it is also very easy.
Instructions show how to put sprocket wheels together and on a couple of diagrams display layout of tracks on wheels. Basic guidelines for painting tracks are also included.