Hi Andrew, thanks for the detailed photos!

First let me say I expected worse model after initial photos of trump's T29, but now it looks like a solid base, tracks may be tediuos to build but they look much better than what takom came up with.

If you want any advice re percieved accuracy of the model I can list what I see is suspicious in the model parts photos:

Few areas jump at me as underdetailed or wrong.

1. "Ventilator dome" between driver's and assistant driver's hatches is simplified and misses two 'intake' slots on either side. It should be much more blended with UFP and hull's roof as it is one casting.

2. Turret's 'front end' should be blended with the turret shell.

3. Turret misses casting scarrs along its lower edges of the existing T29E1.

4. Gunners periscope part C34 should be simpler periscope with a flap setup as on early shermans.

5. Turret vent misses intake slots altoghether, it should be empty inside with just one horizontal blade inside the intake and two vertical blades.

6. There is some strange 'blade' aft of the driver's hatch, I think it maybe trumpeters wild stab at some auxiliary engine or heater motor exhaust, should just be a piece of pipe then.

7. Trunnion covers on either side of the mantlet should have different, more blended profile to match the existing T29E1

8. Engine deck louvers are oversimplified and lack depth, hard to do anything about it, maybe with some clever washes, highlights in the painting stage they may be made to look decent.

Cheers,
Greg

With that said, the question will be whether to use the HB turret or carve out the rangefinders on the Takom kit to make it a vanilla T29.

But even by carving out the hoods, the hatch positions on the Takom kit won't be right for an E1.