And someone was saying that they fixed the engine deck on the Egyptian Sherman... Hope they release it soon.



Hisham

Here's the pic... I hope this is correct.



Hisham

Is that a new T95 in the bottom right corner? If it is I hope it's better than the current one.

Hey there's a pic of the t95 on their facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/dragonmodels/photos/pcb.1478488415510973/1478488182177663/?type=3&theater

surely,dragon should include the military figure to go with it!

It is the current one, just with a what-if, World of Tanks gun tube.

In the real world the T95 and T28 were just different nomenclature for the same vehicle because the Army couldn't decide whether a turret less tank was a tank or a gun motor carriage. In the what-if world it has a different gun tube that neither of the prototypes had. So it's an Allied paper panzer.

Yeah I see. I just noticed that it has a 155mm gun on it. Rats I was really hoping for a retooled. Oh well, I'll just settle for the current if I ever get it.

A couple of better pics





Hisham

How come there's no syrian (or even egyptian) T-34/85?(or even SU-100)

I hope Dragon corrected the other errors in the M3A1 half-track.

Is the AMX Sherman still using their 90s era M4A4 parts?

Would be great if they continue the saga and make also the final GM diesel-engined version with the new armour, exhausts, fuel tanks, etc.

what are the problems with dragons m3 half tracks ?

I know there's small things but if there's any large problems, I too would like to know.

Also, on the T95 w/ 155mm gun. The gun looks a bit short compared to the version WOT has... I don't know if that's of any significance since this is a fantasy version, but I thought I might as well put it out there.

Here's Chris Hughes' review of the Dragon 1/35 M3A1 Half-Track. To me, One of the glaring errors was the rivets instead of screw heads on the armor, but you might not care. Another thing was the mount for the fuel can on the front superstructure. Dragon made a wedge of armor stick out instead of the correct mount, but again, you might not notice it.

Fixing the rivet issue would require retooling the entire hull except for the back plate. I don't think Dragon would consider the expenditure worthwhile for a detail you already explained modeller's might not care about,

Yes, it looks good, now. When I saw the original CAD drawings, I was alarmed, so I sent every Internet photo I had of the Latrun Sherman AMX to Pawel, who kindly forwarded them to Dragon (I suspect others may also have sent them Latrun pix, but I hope my little contribution may have may have resulted in a more accurate kit). I also included information gleaned from Vasko Barbic's excellent articles on Egyptian Sherman modifications in Military Modelling Magazine back in the 1980's, which had detailed the Egyptian Army's changes, notably the conversion of the M4A4 hulls to use the twin diesel engines of the M4A2 (nobody but the British liked the Chrysler Multibank), and the details of the early FL-10 turrets.

The turret CAD images Dragon showed more recently still show the coaming on the upper turret for the canvas dust cover, which should be removed, but Dragon did add the rubber dust gasket seen on the earliest AMX-13's and the Egyptian turrets.

Thank you, Gerald, for thinking of sending them pics of the correct engine deck.. and I'm glad they fixed it, because I do want to get one when it's released.

Hisham