Totally agree!!
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Which you singularly failed to mention in your original post. That crow aint going to craw.
Youâll be telling us next that you forgot to mention he explicity told you to leave the chains off as wellâŚ
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The most likely answer is usually the one that makes the most sense.
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Indeed
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Yes, also missing antennas because of shipping
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Also rejected by the customer, he wanted model clean of gear.
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As an aircraft mechanic my entire adult life Iâve found that saying to be completely untrue for the most part. Pilots tend to be ignorant of mechanical matters and do nasty things to aircraftâŚall in fun of course! If it wasnât for mechanics there would be a worldwide shortage of doctors and lawyersâŚlol
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Really disapointed in some peopleâs reactions⌠I always thought peopleâs builds here were respected, not attacked by experts. Critics are welcome, but to go on and on about the fact that someone didnât add cables⌠isnât the purpose of building models getting them to look the way you want it to look, being a customer or yourself? And not the way experts say it should look?
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Your model looks just fine with or without chains. The person you built it for could be a neophyte to modeling, so, he asked you to build him a Merkava. No different than training on observing air or tank recognition modelsâŚan undetailed general shape for identification. Think of it that way.
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DittoâŚair shows or armor displays are usually catered to the neophyte when viewing a wing or tank thingy. I spent 46 years in aviation, from a C123 all the way up to a C-5, ending up on the Space Shuttle. In no way will 99.9% of the population will have all the knowledge of what theyâre looking at.
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In all fairness the op did open the post with âany thoughts?ââŚjust saying
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Exactly⌠
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Discussions (if you can call them that) like this are rarely fruitful.
I remember not to long ago I remarked that I put a spare road wheel on the fender of an IDF Centurion. Not only was I told it would not have been stored there, someone made some snarky remark when I refused to look through at least 50 IDF references to find proof of what I had seen.
Now, my name ainât Joe Biden. My memory is still good enough to know the difference between the President of Egypt and the President of Mexico. Or whether I had had met a dead French President or a living one. But I digressâŚ
I know if Iâve seen something or not. I donât need to prove it to anyone but myself.
So hereâs my little secret - I never got around to putting cables on this Merkava, although it did get a full interior and opened rear compartments. Why? Because I didnât care for the cables in the Tamiya kit. Never kept it from winning though.
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Maybe the âcustomerâ just got divorced, so any âball and chainâ references are too emotionally tasking. 
Just a thought.
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Actually he wanted Merkava on the budget.
But maybe you are right 
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You do you bro