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I know nothing about the real deal so If you see something that's not quite right then let me know.

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I'm not sure how to break this to you, but the Tamiya kit is more than a bit of a horror show from an accuracy point of view.

There are several big issues and a lot of smaller ones. Big issues:

- The turret and turret ring are about 1/8" too small in diameter which doesn't sound like much, but it looks massively too small.

- The vehicle in the kit depicts a diesel engined variant and there were very few made in this configuration, on the order of 200-300 vehicles total with the horseshoe turret. The differens is in where the air pipes from the cleaners enter the hull.

- The kit road wheels are too narrow and the track is rubbish, but you are fixing both of those.

- The AFV Club suspension isn't quite a drop in to the Tamiya hull and one thing to watch is that the return roller mounts on the Tamiya kit are incorrect. They need to be more of a "U" shape so that the track end connectors clear the roller mounts. They don't on the Tamiya kit.

The good news is that the AFV accessory comes with some new parts that are better than the old Tamiya parts. This includes the differential cover and the rear engine doors. If you were building a Brit version, you swould also have great smoke mortars and antenna mounts plus the hard bits of a great grouser rack.

Use all the AFV parts you possibly can.

HTH

Paul