Not to say that there's no room for improvement... In fact, there's a LOT of room. I think it looks nice as is, particularly if one wants a robust, yet accurate, model for wargaming purposes. But you can just look at some of the detailing projects being chronicled on various modeling forums that show just what can be made out of this kit, if one wants to spend the time. It's a very good starting point. Dan Taylor Modelworks produces a number of upgrade and conversion parts for this kit, including new running gear, which as is typical for S-Model, is the weakest part of this kit.

Again, no scans of the kit parts were made before I built it, but we have two Previews on this site that show these parts very well: a Preview of a pre-production release of the kit by Henk Timmerman, and a Preview of the production release from Stephen Brezinski.

Assembly of the kit takes probably less than five minutes, if you don't take the time to clean the mold seams from the outer face of the tracks. That took the better part of an hour for me. For some kits it's not necessary to clean up the top track run because they are hidden under the fenders, but not so for this tank. There are also prominent mold seams along the tires, but I didn't clean those off for two reasons: first, it would have been a pain the ass, and not possible even for the rearmost two wheels, and secondly, the seam kind of demarcates where there should be a gap between the inner and outer road wheels, so I'm just going to say that's the primarly reason I left them (yeah, right).

According to the dimensions published within Wydawnictwo Militaria 335 - A13 Mk I Mk II, the kit scales out perfectly to 1/72nd.

The model is painted with ATOM paints, and weathered with products from AMMO, AK and Vallejo.