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Meng: M4A3 Sherman from MENG
M4A1Sherman
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Posted: Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 11:15 PM UTC
Hello, Everyone!

Over on "The MODELLING NEWS" site- New information has been posted by MENG, regarding their new M4A3 76mm (Wet) kit- Worth a look!
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Posted: Friday, April 19, 2019 - 05:05 AM UTC
I hope people convince Meng to make a wet M4A1 by buying this.
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Posted: Friday, April 19, 2019 - 05:27 AM UTC

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I hope people convince Meng to make a wet M4A1 by buying this.


Time will tell...
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Posted: Friday, April 19, 2019 - 12:09 PM UTC

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I hope people convince Meng to make a wet M4A1 by buying this.

Curiously, the last news link I followed had a picture of the M4A1 76mm gun tank in the description. I hope that is a hint of things to come. And, the 75mm turret?
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Posted: Thursday, May 09, 2019 - 01:11 AM UTC
On pre-order at Hobbyeasy for EUR36. That camo does look interesting... https://www.hobbyeasy.com/en/data/gst0aydjwnzdkk3cj3sk.html?t=1557407221
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Posted: Thursday, May 09, 2019 - 03:28 AM UTC
Avoid Hobbyeasy, there customer communication is terrible.
Shermania
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Posted: Sunday, June 09, 2019 - 12:19 PM UTC

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Only Italeri, Dragon and Asuka/Tasca make this type of Sherman.

But the Dragon is getting hard to find, the Italeri is from the 1980s and the Asuka requires a second mortgage.

There are more Kursk Panther D than this, tons of Tigers, whole prides of Panthers and Pzkpfw IV G/H. (Five -six different kits)

And Asuka's kit makes no money for Meng. So why the heck not?

Only two companies make loads of Shermans. Everybody and their brother makes a Tiger. (Academy, Tamiya, Trumpeter, Dragon, RFM, Zvezda, Italeri)

How many companies make a Sherman; Tamiya, Academy, Asuka, Dragon, Italeri. But only one variant or another as opposed to everyone out doing themselves with ever more variants.

When a model company doing Sherman's get as obscure as a single company as used by Gruppe Fehrman maybe there'll be enough Sherman's-- like Pakistan M4A1E6 1965? Or actually differentiate between the versions of Israeli M51?

Now if only I hadn't just gotten another kit of this specific variant--


With 50,000 Sherman's produced versus 3000 Tigers? If there were seven times as many Sherman kits as there are Tiger kits then it still wouldn't be be too many.

Maybe 16 times as many ---


Fantastic post! Well said, and yes bring it on!

It’s always interesting to see how a company will navigate the VVSS or HVSS suspension on a sherman which for some odd reason has always had too many modelling compromises in the past. Seems like meng is willing to finally put one out with actual volute springs.

I’m thinking some kind of range locks will have to be put in place to hold everything together? I can’t wait to see it in person
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Posted: Monday, June 17, 2019 - 05:45 PM UTC

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Avoid Hobbyeasy, there customer communication is terrible.


I buy from them all the time without any trouble, but I recently received a kit from them with a missing part. They got on to it right away and shipped out the part promptly and with little fuss.
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