Oh yes, quite awhile back. It will be making its first appearance here on the site within a few days. It has come a long way since being described as sporty when I mistakingly chose to show the base coat color for a forum user here. Overall, I am very pleased with it and after a month and a half, nothing has broken on it at all. Regarding the speed control issue on this rather old thread, there seems to be some confusion. Yes the tank has variable speed control which I suppose by definition is a sort of built in ESC. I like the recoil on the Tamiyas - that looks really great and is executed in a nice way. The epileptic seizure our HLs have when doing the fake main gun fire, is probably the worst thing modeled into the tank. It would have been better left out but hey, I have never spent $65 better on any modeling product with this much return.