Tamiya M4 Sherman #35190
5 Price ~$33 shipped from the land of Bezos, (I paid ~$35, from Tank Museum’s Gift Shop during COVID in 2020) ~$40 is fairly typical today.
For $12 shipping, the Tank Museum averaged six business days from ordered placed to my door during COVID for three different orders. That was a delightful surprise 
. Supporting the Tank Museum with purchase or donation is more satisfying than saving $10 and helping enlarge the Land of Bezos in my opinion.
5 Instructions - Old school Tamiya Good 
. This is what I like in instruction sheets and supplement material.
4 Molding Quality - Very good overall, some of it shows some age because some of the kit is 40+ years old. The 1995 era parts are noticeably superior to the earlier parts.
5 Plastic Quality - Consistent quality Tamiya
4 Parts Clean Up - My kit did have flash on an occasional bit parts etc. Cleaning up the kit rubber band tracks requires a sharp blade, patience and fooling with track position placement to hide artefacts under wheels, on sprockets and under the sponsons.
4 Ease of Build - The nature of the wheel and bogie complicates painting, not the kit’s fault just the nature of the subject matter. Likewise, the sponsons need sealed with sheet plastic in my opinion.
2 Accuracy see Garrand’s post below.
“It looks like a perfectly valid target, I’d shoot at it”…according to a Panzer Police we interviewed for this review. (j/k)
Pretty sure Otto Carius would say it looks like a Sherman too (j/k).
I know ZERO about Sherman’s, have no references and plan to keep it that way, so I can continue too ENJOY building Sherman’s. 
I really liked the weld details, texture and add on armor.
If you want to add stowage, the provided parts in my opinion detract from the model and should be replaced with Value Gear or similar quality aftermarket.
5 Fit - With parts deburred fits surprisingly well. It might require a little extra time test fitting and mocking up to ensure alignment of hull, skirts and transmission cover etc.
5 Doesn’t Require Aftermarket - I think the kit tracks get a pass with the skirts & fenders on. Skirts & fenders off, I’d want a set of aftermarket tracks. See Ease of Build for reasons. The 50 cal could be updated with better 3D printed MG etc.
5 Details built Out of the Box
Don’t call this M4 Sherman kit a “Ronson” unless you want it to burn your pet Tiger project to the ground. I regret not building this kit back in the late 1990’s as it had the potential to TERRORIZE the out of the box category.
** 44 points out of 50 **
44/50 => 88%
The Panzer Police call it like we see it, 1980’s roots, plus quality control and it scored 94%
