Flatfour! Thank you very much!
I want to say separately that the interest shown and the words of gratitude and support from all members of the community have magical power and give energy to continue this project!
Many thanks to everyone!
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Looking great. 
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Really loving how well the build has gone.
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53 hours of work.
It seems to have turned out with an idler wheel. I will glue the crank and finally assemble the tracks.
On round parts such as handrails and brackets, there are barely noticeable traces of mold displacement. From the inside, I process them without removing the parts from the sprues. From the outside, I will process those already glued to the model.
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Thank you! 
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55 hours of work.
Heavenly Forces! Have I done this?!
Friends! If you suddenly want to make a QUICK ASSEMBLY of the model OUT OF THE BOX, then I beg you - DON’T GO IN MY WAY!
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I think you did a marvelous job. Very thorough on your assembly, especially with the tracks. I will never knock on your style of modeling.
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32 hours to assemble tracks! 1.5 times more than to assemble the whole model! It’s clearly not for quick assembly out of the box!
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Oh yeah! It’s also epic!
Is it MENG?
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Yup! Meng M1A2 TUSK . I saw those and I was like “ABSOLUTELY NOT” and bought a set of metal tracks instead.
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Well, yes, with metal tracks it will be easier and faster.
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57 hours of work
Spent an hour to fit one front fender!
In the form in which the manufacturer made it, it did not want to take its place. I had to customize it.
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58 hours of work.
It’s just awful! A whole hour to glue two fenders!!
And here’s what the RFM offers.
Rear fenders are also far from the best solution.
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Way to overcome the issue.
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60 hours of work.
I spent a whole hour gluing 6 brackets for attaching grouser lugs !! Why was it so complicated? Grooves on the body, an incomprehensible form of the brackets themselves? The instructions incorrectly indicate the spatial position of the brackets. There is an obvious and simplest solution - on the turret! Why couldn’t the same be done on the hull as well?
In the course of assembly, the thought often occurs to me that this model was designed by several different people. Moreover, one of them is an engineer designer, the second is a modeler, and the third is a girlie interior designer.
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