Thank you John for the compliment. The Abrams I helped build was a ChunWai model which needed a ton of Daryl's expert help as well. I believe the Tamiya will be a masterpiece. I have been toying with buying an HL version for about a year now because I really want an Abrams, but I never got around to pulling the trigger on it. Glad I waited. I just hope the price of this thing isn't insane.