Yes, I am aware of your long standing relationship with Daryl Turner, I purchased my first DTparts from ETO several years ago and still do.

This KV-1 lasted less than 10 minutes on eBay, went to a Danville tanker, and that ended my experience with the Tamiya kit.

The photos of the custom prototype parts DTcreated for this build in 2011 are about it for my 3 cents of opinions for this build, so that's it for further posts here.

FYI, the big and heavy Tamiya KV does need the ETO black can motors plus pinon gearing if your using the Tamiya kit transmissions.

The model ran well using ETO's black motors and heavy Impact metal tracts; after DT's work was completed: tackling tall grass yards, dirt terrain, moderate slopes & hills.

And no tossed tracks, but never ran it in any mud!

Again looking forward to learning how your correcting the kit faults and advancing the build art.