Finally some progress here. Everything fits again - the turret is a small kit in itself.
I decided to finish the tank as a rustbucket, found two suitable figures for it too - a photographer making a "walkaround" of it and another one, maybe his friend or a park ranger etc. Only his camera is missing - should be scratchable.
"Did you really pay a big amount of money for only half a figure?!"
"Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I get and beat you with 'till you understand who's in ruttin' command!"
-Jayne Cobb, Firefly Episode 2 "The Train Job"
We are modelers - the same in spirit, in hunger to insanely buy newly released kits, hustlers in hiding our stash from our better halves and experts in using garbage as replacements for after-market parts.