Considering that Friuls costs almost as much and have to be assembled from track pads and two kinds of teeth (one for straight sections and another type for rounded sections), these look great to me.

These will be called Sherman Click Links . 1/35th Scale (My Apologies to GTG Resin they use the name Snap Tracks) These are printed Resin not Cast.

I'm assembling a set of the Friul ATL-12 for an M-10 right now--they're not that bad. CERTAINLY worth the effort.

Go to hobby tera, you can buy the frul tracks already put together for $45.00

I've never understood assembly type tracks for Shermans anyway, they don't have any sag to them in real life.

I like the look and idea, especially with the EEC. I've never had quite the budget for much aftermarket.

The reason for using individual link track for the double pin designs is nothing to do with reproducing sag but to render the way that the angle of the end connectors (and centre guides in some designs) span the angle of the two attached links on a curve. Short of using Friul's method and providing a different design for those links to the Ines on a straight run, the correct appearance is not possible if all the end connectors are moulded in the same plane as the links as the angle will look wrong. Of course there is the flexible track route but that brings its own challenges in the form of distortion on bends, difficulty removing mould lines etc..

Oh! I get what you mean. With rubber band tracks the pads will behave properly but the connectors will bend. Thanks for explaining.

You can also find that the pads bend laterally (the unsupported centres bow onwards on the sprocket as the tension is all on the connectors).