Well,since it is made of brass rod, angle and screen it really is not that heavy, so i simply removed any paint from the back of the original rack and used some thick CA. How i made the rack gave me very good mounting points to apply the glue since i tried to get very close to true scale with the basket. I thought of fabricating it with hooks at the upper corners to have it just hang fromthe basket but the HL plastic on the top rail is not very strong and i did not want to add too much extra weight to it. So when it was all said and done for me the best way was to just neatly glue it in places that had good structural points. This way when traveling over rough terrain i dont need to worry about the basket bouncing up and off of any hanging mounting points. I should have taken pictures as i was building the basket but never really gave it much thought until I was finished.
i just think it makes the model look much more current as compared to how HL represented it because it is actually an M1A2 not the A1 as advertised.