My hand has mostly healed. I get a few sharp pains deep inisde it now and then and there is a weired lump at the base of my palm that wasnt there before, its either a tendon bulging out of place or scar tissue. I still have a numb spot in the middle of my palm so if that doesnt come back, im gonna have to go back to the hand specialist. Other than that, everything works right and Im getting things done.
Thanks for asking.

As for the halftrack, I bought a good book on amazon that has some cut aways of the TD but i need better pictures to build the mount. Someone said they would get some for me in April, when they visit the moved Aberdeen museum.

Im definitely going to replace the bumper, i broke it by stepping on it after I set it down and wrapped my hand up and tripped and ran in the house to stop the bleeding from the chisel incident. The rest of the half track is fine, just the front two screw mounts cracked on the bumper. Very robust models these things are.

i have focused all my modeling on the M4A1 project right now, its almost finished. Im fitting a barc4 in it.