M50 ready for paint

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Dragon/Cyber-hobby's kit more or less OOTB. The outer roadwheels, tracks and fuel/water cans are removable for painting. Overall this is a really horrible kit as far as construction goes. Most major parts do not fit well and require a lot of reworking or surgery. Detail is, however, pretty good. I had intended on using the AFV Club HVSS suspension but went ahead and used the kit parts which were less hassle and not as fiddly. Work done to get the kit to this point includes surgery on the chassis and transmission cover to improve poor fit, enlarging the turret bustle with Apoxie Sculpt, making a new, earlier type engine deck. having to come up with HVSS idler wheel mounts as the kit has none. adding some detail to the kit's .50 with an Academy ammo box and bullets, substituting an Academy phone box, adding some wire handles to the hatches, adding mounting plates for the spare wheels using some old Panzer IV return roller discs, adjusting the sprockets so the tracks 1) don't hit the hull and 2) are lined up with the suspension. OOTB the kit sprocket and suspension don't line up.