Back to work on the sdkfz253.
Upper hull assembly. Vision ports, blocks, and covers. You can see the fixed passenger side cover. This has since been removed. The mesh for the hood is plain plastic mesh. I'll probably change this out after the campaign for some PE covers I have in the spares.
Upper interior sidewalls. There's three water jugs included. Unfortunately if they are fitted per the instructions two will get in the way of the radio. I figure this is a leftover from the Grief version of this kit. I'd end up removing two of the jugs, damaging one in the prcess. I moved the survivor to the other side to give it some added detail.
With the interior basically assembled, it was time for paint. I used Testors Panzer Interior Buff. And yes I painted the wrong side of the roof.
Paint dry, I added the tie-down hooks for the hood and roof areas. One was damaged so I left it off next to where the radio antenna goes. I have one in the spares that will work and will add it after the campaign.
Interior shot of instrument panel.
Interior shot of the fighting compartment.
Radio set-up attached to roof.
Track time. The kit comes with Magic Track. They go together pretty nicely. I use a jig made from popcicle sticks to hold them together until the glue sets.
Tracks assembled, formed, and given a coat of dark-dark gray.
Fenders assembled. I prepainted the hull fieldgray so I could add the tracks and fenders.
Fenders on. Note the removed vision port cover on the passenger side. This will be fixed after the campaign. You can also see the location of the missing tie-down hook.
View from the other side. You can see the former locations of the water jugs.
The rear gap. That's a US quarter inserted in to the gap. I'll address this after the campaign.
With roof added to check fit. I'll probably just tack this down so I can reopen it after the campaign to add pieces of kit, radio headphones, etc. I've discovered a problem with the kit's spotter's binoculars. The sprue with the binoculars and mounts were not in the kit box. I've got a replacement from a Dragon StuG that I'll add after the campaign.
I'm glad to be back on track with this one and I'll be ready to get it done. This has been a very bad CH kit for me with the mold issues, missing parts, and fit issues. They can all be fixed, but it's really a disappointment.
I should have it assembled and ready for paint by the weekend.
) little track widgets get to you??? 
). So I should perhaps at least think of a different scheme then yours if I do go there!
Are you going to build it with, or without that Pz III cupola? The kit contains all the parts to do the much more historically-correct original Russian roof on the turret... The cupola looks cool but was maybe actually a "one-off" for the T34/76 mod 1941.... Apparently quite a few were captured and fixed up by the Germans, but the cupola addition mostly appeared on later "beutes" such as mod. 1942 and mod. 1943 34s. So IF you are going with the cupola look... I could legit build OOTB one of the other (large majority of 
