Thank you guys, your comments are very nice and very inspiring....

I will submit and hope it is featured..
I have taken photos of the process of achieving the dust streaks as well...
The rope add on is something I usually do for the Israeli tanks I build..and the tie method is very simple as I tried to simulate as in photos in one of my books...However, I would like to tackle some different rope coils I've seen on photos from the net...those look like a challenge.
The stowage gear and MOLLE is something that I have to improve in my next builds, I should think I only have Real Model and Goffy Models to turn to... (Hobby Fan's MOLLE is great but the rolled sleeping mats just don't do it.
Looking forward to more decal designing and printing...

The AAV bug hit me .. I'm on a quest to find at least 3 more tamiya kits (of course more the better)

I plan to build these 5 kits with Hobbyfan's conversion of EAAK armor, Mounting blocks, Interior and Recovery version...and what seems to me as an "uparmored" version-required via scratch building..