Hi Greg,

You have a super tank, and fun to drive. Pretty unique too. I bought a used 1a4 for 100 bucks a few years back as my first tank. I completely restored it with much help from Tom Zhang (www.tomsrctanks.com). Tom has pics of my a4 and one of his own on the website.

On mine, we installed a gun elevation kit, and a turret traverse kit. We also installed a wireless camera in the searchlight housing. Very cool!

Most importantly, Tom sells parts for them, and can help you. Of course the german model shop previously mentioned is a source too.

I recommend that you make it work first (radio and speed controller if needed), then you can fix it nice. Guys that upgrade this model big time use a Tamiya Pershing guts, so you'd need to cannibalize a Pershing kit to do your upgrades.

Hope this helps!

Jeff