Hi my friends,
quotes my blog .... (miniafv.blogspot.com)

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My other half project. ( I have a lot of projects ) In Day got a job that sucks. I am resting at night, with my projects . (about braille scale modeling of course)
I wanted to make a model for therapy.
Hımmmmm..
A sherman?
Sherman is a Dragon?
M4A3E8...HVSS
good idea ...
So let's start ..
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A nightmare ...



Let's start with number 1 stage. How easy is it in the picture. Eight rice grains. Assemble please.





and make this process six times. Total 48 pieces .. continued hours..a victory !!!

looks terrible tracks. Long and thick. The most important thing is not compatible with the sprocket wheel. flexible like rubber band...What to do ?





Cut it Erhan !!! Glue it Erhan !!! Ok... (with my other project.. A hetzer, wait for Hetzer please)



continue..



test paint

with Stuart

Erhan,

You should have asked the forum here about that kit! It was the first build I did after returning to the hobby and almost made me decide to quit again. As you point out in your pictures, the suspension components are bad and the tracks were horrible. You are doing well considering all the problems.

IF you can find one, the Dragon Chi Ha tanks are fairly relaxing to build.

Cheers,
Jan

My kit came with Magic Tracks. I've never seen these tracks in that kit before.

Now that I have I'll never look forward to building with them. The performance is ... well, not what we want.









~ Jeff

@ Jeff, we want to Magic Tracks for Braille Scale of course

@ Jan, hımm Dragon.. hımm Chi Ha.. good idea

I just finished Revells 1/76 Jagdpanther and although the rubber band tracks where hard to work with,they where not as nasty as those.Jeff Tucker

Good looking build Erhan. Those tracks do look awful, and the kits looks over engineered. I assume this is an old Dragon kit?
Cheers,
Tim

@erhntly – Erhan,

Model building is supposed to be relaxing and also helps you to forget about the day’s stressful events. But every once in a while you run into a kit with a few part and fit issues leaving you with more stress than you started with. In any event, good save with the tracks and drive wheels.



Erhan, depending on my motivation and mood that I’m in I usually will go and check out the reviews section here or at 'onthewaymodels.com’ for a heads up on the kit before I begin. It will save you a lot of headaches.

Keep your builds coming, it makes me feel glad that someone is building something and having fun.

~ Eddy

Pity they included such bad tracks in that kit. I guess we all open a kit and get disappointed every once in a while.
Anyway, good luck with the rest of your build.

P.A.

@ Eddy , the kit total cost me under 10 usd (shipping HongKong-Turkey). Very cheap

Modeling not popular hobby in Turkey. We can't find all kinds of model. (Especially 1/72 scale) No problem about 1/72 scale Revell, Airfix, PST, Italeri. However, Dragon, Hasegawa, Trumpeter brands such as 1/72 scale distributors do not prefer. I use Ebay or international shopping sites.

"ontheway" great a useful resource. "ontheway" and "henkofholland" portals that contain important information for us. Sometimes I also contributing these portals.

@ Alexander, dear neighbor, There is no disappointment. Smile when we finished there. We love this smile.

Hi dear friends,
Sherman and Stuart also completed. But I wanted to share before the Sherman. Gave pleasure to the construction stage. (except tracks...please not see the tracks)
Enjoy...
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Erhan









here is a lot of photos :
http://miniafv.blogspot.com/2012/03/dragon-172-m4a3e876w-hvss-erhan-atalay.html

Erhan,

Congratulations for completing this annoying kit, it is looking good. This was the first model I built after returning to the hobby and I had the same problems as you did. If you notice, I use a picture of it as my icon. My build was done back in 2008 for a Sherman Campaign and you may see some pictures of it here.

Cheers,
Jan

Hi Jan,
Thank you for your nice thoughts. I also liked the model when it completed, could do a few Sherman. I know your icon after return, an excellent result for the first model.
cheers..

Hi Erhan,

Good result, I like the color and weathering on the glacis plate. The tracks might be a let down but I find the rest of the model very good.

P.A.

Interesting subject. Sherman isn't one of my favourites tanks but this has captured my attention.

Regards.

Pedro.

@erhntly – Erhan,

I think you did a good job on this one; my favorite part is the weathering. I like the streaks of dirt running down the sides of the vehicle. Other than the horrible tracks the kit looks to be very well detailed. I will have to add this one to the stash after seeing how well you and Jan aka ‘tread_geek’ did on building this kit. I’ll need to source out some other tracks when I do build mine. I think that the tracks do not look as bad in person as they do in the up close photographs, cameras have a way of exaggerating or highlighting details that are otherwise unseen when in front of us (I think I said that right?).

Thanks for posting and sharing your work here, hope to see you continue having fun here.
Eddy

Thank you dear friends I learned many techniques from this forum

As far as I'm concerned anything looking that good in 1:72 is a success. I can't build that small.

Erhan,

Beautiful Sherman.


About the tracks:
My son built the Trumpeter Easy 8 when he was 10 and the tracks on those fit perfectly. Would those Tumpeter tracks fit the Dragon kit?