Hi Jeff-

I am building the Academy M-10 right now - and must say that i like the kit very much. I bought the T-51 AFV tracks as well as the RHPS T-51 set. I ended up using the RHPS set on mine, but the AFV club tracks are nice as well.

The Academy sprockets are a tad narrower than the AFV club sprockets, so you will have to add a small spacer between the two halves of the sprocket when you join them together. The tracks will fit the idler and roadwheels just fine. Just use one of the AFV club track links when you are building the sprocket to get the size of the spacer you are gonna need. That shouldn't be too hard. I would recommend the tracks to anyone - very nice!

I also used the eduard etch set on mine. One thing though - make sure you have ALL the pages of the Eduard instructions. My etch set was missing a few pages, and I didn't notice it until I had a ton of little bits left over..... too late to add some of the detail parts. The Eduard instructions should be 7 pages - if you don't have them all - go to the Eduard web site and download the whole thing - I did that after I realized I was missing pages.

Later-
Jeff

PS - I didn't use any brass shells in the turret - but I did scratch build the ammo racks (hehe, these ammo racks are included in the Eduard set - but I didn't know it at the time )