4+ months mostly waiting for parts since once I started the mod I kept thinking along the lines of "wouldn't this be neat to add?" It's finished now. Factory fresh in dull coat and HL's original paint job that I only modded slightly in a couple of places. I'll add the Loader's hatch hand wheel if I ever find one at a reasonable rate. In other KT threads I put up some pics of parts, the work I did on grab handles, the headlight, antenna mod, the rear mud guard mod and some aggravation over aftermarket suspension arms being too long to work with the metal tracks, idlers and sprockets. The only things I want to direct attention to here, mod wise, one can't be seen (adding 4 self adhesive small, round plastic sliders to the turret race to raise it a tiny bit to clear the taller Tamiya lift hooks on the rear deck plus smooth the rotation out) and the other using the Tamiya mg42 air self defense machine gun instead of the mg34 and building a swivel both ways mount for it out of sprue plus two bolt heads I cut from extra tow shackles and made into caps. The rest is pretty standard stuff. Mesh Grill covers, metal tow shackles, drilled the bow machine gun so when it fires, it lights up in a red circle like a muzzle flash, painted mix of Tamiya and Heng Long tools and add ons. It runs great and looks killer on display. I am content.
) Thanks again for all the encouragement. Let me know if you like what I've done or not and why.Regards,
Painless
I guess fynsdad was right... I'm a bad influence 
