Hello all
@vonHengest - thats not a 'horrible urge' - its normal and natural to build small scale !
@Biggrip74 - I guess you mean the BA-64. Or if you mean the Panhard, I buy them all online anyway. Local Hobby Stores never stock these in this country. If you search you will find these for sale online at several sites. I use two reliable online shops who have good prices. Message me if you want the website addresses I use.
@weathering_one - thanks, I generally prefer the offbeat & unusual to the more commonly seen & modelled vehicles of WW2.
Update on the BA-64.
The kit comes with two sets of front and rear mudguards. One set is wider than the others. (for original BA-64 & more common BA-64B I guess). The kit instructions indicate to use the narrow guards, so I fitted them. Then I test fit the wheels. Here was a problem, the wheels extended outside the guards, , looked terrible, and clearly they shouldn't in all pictures I have seen, including the blue-prints. If i were to shorten the axles the wheels would be under the guards, but this would narrow the wheel base too much, the outer edge of the rubber tyres need to just extend onto the outer edge of the railhead.
So I ripped the front guards off and applied the wider set of guards and they are near perfect. I also looked at the front on picture of this actual vehicle and I'm certain the wide guards were always the correct choice, not the narrow ones.
Then I set to the rear guards, first checking all known photos of this particular vehicle (3 that I know of). The photos indicate that there were no rear mudguards on either side of this vehicle, though the instructions indicated they should have been applied !
So off came the rear mudguards, and some file work was needed to smooth where they had been.
If building this kit as an ordinary wheeled version, I'd suggest the front and rear axles and springs be mounted 1 millimetre or 1.5 millimetre lower, (by using some small pieces of evergreen plastic where the axles meet the chassis rai)l. Otherwise the wheels sit a bit high up under the guards. Leave as is if you want the vehicle to look like its heavily laden. This is nit picking a bit, but I looked at many side views of this vehicle, and mostly there is a bit of space between the top of the wheels and the mudguards.
below are pictures of the real thing from Battlefield RU, and link to the blueprints at armchair general, for anyone who might be planning to build one of these. click on the blueprints to enlarge
http://rkkaww2.armchairgeneral.com/galleries/armored_cars/BA_64_bp.htmhttp://www.battlefield.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=50&lang=enanyway progress pics also below
cheers
Neil
I think that I better make it a habit to drop by here more often. I miss a few days and there is a ton of progress to look over. 
I used some etched ones on my SU122, made by Ace, bought from Tracks and Troops. They were not too easy to build, largely because I made a mistake, and didn't exactly fit the Eastern Express kit. In fact the hard plastic length tracks that came with the EE SU122 were then used on Little First Circle's T34 in the Matchbox campaign, and they were quite nice, better than the original items. The etched ones used on the SU122 were extra wide. Part of the problem is that T34 two-plate style, where it can be difficult to meet up the two ends in a satisfactory way - I would suggst adjusting the idler position to make them fit. You can see more details on my thread for that here: My SU122 There is also a link to Tracks and Troops in that thread.
