Thanks, Everyone, for the very kind words.
I may have been less than generous in calling the kit a dog. It actually has some very nice resin parts to fill up the engine compartment and a small color brochure with some reference photos and build tips; however, the fit of the chassis was not great and many parts I found to be clunky and lacking detail. The side mounted jerry cans were molded as a solid piece with their supporting racks. I ended up using a micro-saw to separate them and filed off the remnants of the racks. That allowed me to paint and weather them individually before installing them only for the final steps of the overall weathering.
@PzAufkl Peter, I actually didn’t notice the part about leaving off the rear steering until I had already started to assemble the suspension, but I left the parts on because it "busied up the undercarriage and I doubted many people would knowthe difference. I can only speculate about what they might have done to lock down the rear suspension, but perhaps welding it in place or installing some additional bolts to keep it from moving.
@CMOT Darren, I don’t have any WIP photos, but I could take some better photos of the completed build and do a write-up if you think anyone would be interested.
Again, thanks everyone for your very kind words. Not the response I anticipated! 
