Egyptian Sherman

Really like the casting series on the bogies 

And six bogies, 2 sprockets and 2 idlers later ... 

Rear side taken directly from the Firefly kit; it should have the exhausts from the M4A2 instead; the kit does include them but ... 1. the part doesn't really fit the M4A4 hull ... and 2. I realized too late 🙁 

Pay close attention, H2 and H1 need to be reversed from the instructions, otherwise the idler is going to be too high and there's no more room for the track. Dragon instructions at their best! 

The upper hull is from their older M4A4 kit, the engine deck is a new mold. And by new I mean bad; all the details are molded in (the grills, the fuel caps) and they look so bi-dimensional! Compare them with the fuel caps on the side 

Hard to believe the old hull has better details than the supposedly new pieces 

The engine deck again. All details (grills, fuel caps) are all one single piece. Which is why they look so bi-dimensional 

The "new" FL-10 turret. Even in the instructions it looks like something molded in 1975, not 2017 

The old M4A2 engine deck looks better. Unfortunately it's too short for the M4A4 hull otherwise I would have used it. And it has separate pieces for the grills and the fuel caps! 

One of the "new" sprues 

It has the Dragon logo on it, otherwise I would have thought they took it from some ancient kit made by someone else. And it says Eygpt Sherman 🙂 

The turret piece casting is awful 

The plastic is so rough and the details so thick it's hard to believe it's a 2017 kit 

The plastic is so rough and the details so thick it's hard to believe it's a 2017 kit