Mark Farrugia
the kit is made with the turret entirely made of cast steel (texture), when in fact the top plates where hot rolled steel welded to the cast steel shell, welding was stainless steel, so even after long time it had to remain shiny or mostly silvery and non rusty.

To be honest looking back on the photos I took while constructing, that was the major flaw of this model, other that that it was a really good one. The only other thing I had to replace was the side turret rack which I found it was a bit thick in plastic, so I made it in metal.

Mark Farrugia
Ottovon, don't forget that this tank was a prototype and never used in the field, so any of the paint schemes on the instruction sheet and on the box art were not real (on this tank).