Know what your saying Jeff. You know how these "boutique" outfits are though. Rush to production and not many people will realize whats up anyways. They are atleast trying to improve on reliability with some of the drivetrain upgrades but really just bandaids. Still an incomplete kit as the traverse and recoil units are still unavailable and Carson at DKLM has hinted that they don't plan on releasing these units anytime soon. They apparently have a "new" project coming out soon that all their efforts (if we want to call them that) are on. Still a cool kit that's very unique, just needs quite a bit of tweeking to get up to decent r/c standards. Like I've said, this is definitely a motorized model and not a r/c kit. Same ballpark as the Bandai 1/15 tanks or the Imai Elefant as well as the old offerings from Andrew designs.