Well, no. You’ve got me there Ron.
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Truth worthy of being chiseled in stone! Likewise on the inaccurate USSR tanks.
However, I enjoyed many of those terrible only game in town Dragon kits🐉back in the late 80’s & early 90’s.
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I quite recently did one of their T-72’s and it came out looking like one.
Plus they are cheap these days. However I did pay rather much for the M50.
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Asuka does indeed have an M4A4:
It is a lot better than the Dragon M4A4 kit, both in fit and in detail.
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Cool! I apparently missed that one on scalemates.
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Rye field has a M4A4 Sherman firefly
I am going to build it in a damaged form for a bigger diorama. So Will defitely have the engine visible.
The tracks are very stiff, but still flexible. So the tracks will work as long as they do not break. 
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Also, I’ve just started building a Sherman BARV:
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that is the fix needed to correct the dragon A4 hull
hull
lets not forget the issues they had with vinyl tires on all thier BTR and BRDM kits with the tires leaching out oil , swelling up or drying out and cracking
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Hi folks,
I could come back to the project, so now I can share what I think ready for a paint job:
Now some mandatory gardening
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Very nice build!!!
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Outstanding build. You sure got all the details covered.
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Nice work! Just one thing: in the front-top photo, it looks like the gun crutch does not line up with the barrel. On the real vehicle, the barrel was offset to the left, as the model also has it (compare to the hull ventilator below it) but it gives the impression that the crutch is not. Or is that an optical illusion caused by the angle of the photograph?
As for my own efforts:
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Thank Nikos and Matthew! @Jakko: the turret is not glued yet. I just dropped it on the hull to take the pics. With this particular small lot (6) of Shermans, the very early IDF replaced the unserviceable 105 mm (demilled in Italy) with 75 mm Krupp borrowed from their artillery units. I just can’t tell from the original pics how this mod looked from above, so I will show the tank moving with turret slightly turned aside.
Hope it’s a good estimate of real tanks!
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If they didn’t change the mantlet, then the gun would be off-centre, too. And since all 105 mm Shermans came with the gun travel lock, then that needs to be off-centre as well regardless of which gun the Israelis put into the tank, I would think.
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Yes, the mantlet is the same; I tried to align and it seems to work, in case I will stick to plan B and cheat a bit as I said in the previous post. Alas…
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