Max,

As you know my son Connor ran his Tamiya Panther all weekend at BAT; Like you we spaced the drive sprockets and had no track binding problems. The tank handles and drives very scale like. Its not a must need, but we added Darl Turners main gun sleeve; it installs easy and works nice. I think it was $15.00

I think the Panther will continue to be one of our collection favorits.