Dan - Oh yeah the RAD is looking....TOTALLY RAD!!! (hehe, old school 80's lingo!)
Alan - I'm really loving the way the 222 is turning out! The wash looks great and is making the details stand out!
Stik - all the details are shining on your build!! The scratchbuilt rangefinder is looking better and better!
So here's my update: Put the Dragon Pz. I on hold while I got caught up on the Italeri Befehlswagen.
As usual work started with the suspension and I found no real problems with it. I filled the sinkholes in the sprockets and went to work on the main bogie units. Suprisingly, they assembled almost exactly like the Dragon units....in fact they are almost identical, with the Dragon unit being slightly more detailed, plus a little sharper.
The return rollers were a different story. At first I thought the Italeri rollers were quite poor with their two part assembly, but after doing a little research I found that they are actually closer to the real thing! Although there are gaps when assembled, when filled they do a better job of representing the actual return rollers.....shocker! The hubs on the Dragon rollers are inset, but on the Italeri and actual rollers the hubs are raised.
I found the same situation with the idlers. Although both lack the divided cast rims, the Italeri idlers represent the outer part much better than the Dragon idlers, which look like its supposed to have a simple rubber rim. Granted, I used the LionMarc resin idlers on the Dragon kit, but I was curious to see the difference.
As an experiment I decided to see how hard it would be to cut out the middle of the idler rim, so I drilled a hole right through the hub and used a screw and nut to chuck it into my Dremel. I forgot to take pics of this, but you can see here how I did it using a larger saw blade. The end result was quite promising, but I'm skeeered to try it on the actual kit idlers. 
I think I'll hold off on this until later......
So with the suspension done I was curious to see how it "stacked up" to the Dragon kit. What do you think?
Another shocker! The Dragon and Italeri main bogie units match up so closely they are perfectly interchangeable with each other! Who would have thunk it??
Moving along with the rest of the build: I used the intake screens from the Eduard PE kit, but there was no screen for the larger louver section so I used generic diamond mesh PE. Then I blanked off the open area of the crew compartment with sheet styrene.
The kit grill for this open area didn't fit well at all so I used the grill from the Eduard PE set. It consisted of 2 long slats and 3 small joiners, all assembled with CA glue. Much better looking in my humble opinion.
On the upper hull the front glacis plate was too wide for the casemate so I trimmed the sides for a better fit. In addition I noticed that the rivets around the view ports on the sides were misshapen. I was going to remove them and reinstall better rivets, but after doing some research I couldn't find one photo that showed ANY rivets around these view ports, so I just sanded them completely off!! Hey....anything to make the job easier!!
Lastly I worked on the hull MG. I couldn't figure out why there was a large groove running laterally around the ball mount. I could not find any photo showing this, but during my internet research I found that the preserved example in Bovington has this exact same groove! So I chalked this up to Italeri using the Bovington vehicle for its basis and that the ball was a post war replacement, so I decided to fill the groove with plastic rod and reshape when dry. The molded MG looks more like a late version MG34 so I cut it off and replaced it with a more appropriate version of an MG34. Yes, I know that Panzerbefehlswagens were originally supposed to have a MG13 mounted, but I've seen several war time examples in North Africa where a MG34 was used, so it made sense to go with that.
Sorry for the long update fellas! I'll try to keep them more frequent and therefore much shorter!
Happy modeling!