Hi Pat, Yes I know that, but the principle is pretty much the same, so why should Dragon be exempt. There was a logo when we went to the pictures when I was young, can't remember who it belonged to but it went something like this. "We can't please all of the people all the time but we try to please most of the people most of the time" If the kit does have flaws (and I don't know if it does - seems pretty good to me) then it's good that they are identified, but fix them, improve on them, built the kit if you want or not as you choose, but have a lot of fun along the way If Dragon have got something wrong then they should know better by now, so I haven't got much sympathy for them. I'm sure they have been down this road before! Great News, it certainly is a bumper year for Allied modellers regardless of any specific issues. Al

Frank can you elaborate on the errors you percieve. As for Jim I am a strident critic of DML but usually wait until I have the object to critique it. From Pawels response I believe they have addressed the small errors of the original kit which is quite commendable. The addition of the WE 210 is a bonus on top as is the Flared Gun barrell I'd welcome your views on what will be wrong? Al

And I would like to make it clear that I'm quite certain that this new kit (as practically any other) will still have several errors in it - major for some modelers and minor for others. But indeed several of those that were most often mentioned in previous M4A2/Sherman III kit reviews were addressed. Pawel

Alan and John, The Academy grant has two flawas as I saw it in the flesh. The Bogies and the Track ; perfectly good for T51 but as most Brit M3 Med had WE 210 - dissapointing. I was pleased to see Terry corrected his view on the Hull angle which I never agreed with after measuring up a few examples at Puckapunyal and taking the time to send him the Hull Plans. The Turret is interesting as I looked at two Australian Grants sitting side by side and they had differing Turret shapes (only slightly). The Academy one matched one of these almost perfectly but I would rub down all the ridges as i thought they were just a bit "Sharp". Academy deserved to be pilloried for what they did with the Grant. If they had the sense to put the M7 Bogie set in and had done new tracks it was a real winner. Now it will be consigned to the shelf by most modellers and avoided. I intend to use the tracks from this Sherman when it comes for my Grant along with the spare M3 Bogies from the M7 I hope DML continues the Small step improvement of the M4 family as a small step from this one is Vehicle 37 "Churchill" which has a DV hull and M4 Suspension plus 1 pce nose. A small step from that is an Alamein one with M3 Suspension and 3 piece nose, the next small step is an M4 (US) for Tunisia with DV, M3 Suspension . Then once they have the M3 Suspension an early M4A1 etc etc etc. A new M4A2 and a new Composite. I was of the belief that this year couldn't get any better but I was wrong (again) Al

Hi Al, Thanks for that, that's what I though from the PMMS review, a new set of boggies should put the Grant right and there are several AM products to choose from so this one is one the buy list for me. As I haven't t build a British/Commonwealth tank yet that didn't need some if not a lot of work I see the Grant as a real welcome addition and some AFV club tracks will probably fix it up nicely. Anyway sure that's half the fun, but I'm looking forward to getting one lol, lol. With all these new Shermans coming out I'm way behind in my build programme lol, lol, so many choices with ACs, New Churchills, Stuarts, Priests, the list just keeps getting longer. Happy days. Then there's a Scammell, Hillman Tilly, Universal Carrier options, it's been like Christmas all year Bank account is sure taking a few blows lol, lol. Cheers Al

Check out the tracks, where do I get one of these, in fact, a couple of these malc.

I understand the fact that we all should wait to see the actual kit before complaining ,but Dragon really should have changed their drawings before presenting it to the public..I for one read the fact that they changed the hull but when I look at the CAD drawings the first thing that came into my head is 'they didn't fix the space in front of the periscopes ." Okay what were we to think ...A picture says a thousand words ...I now know it has been fixed but at first I was quite disappointed ..Glad to see Pavel is working hard to get us better Allied kits ...Good job sir !! Your efforts are really appreiciated. Rick

finally!!!! we need more British tanks!!! -tim

@ Jim, You are totaly right about comment's on newly anounced kits. My comment was out of line. @ Al Bowie, To be specific on what is or could be wrong are the smoke distractors on top of the hull and on the turret (undersized) the exhaust will probably be wrong to, like on the tarawa and Sherman III kits. For the rest of the so called errors I did comment to fast. I did speak before I saw that Dragon made some (serious) updates to this kit. I thought that it was the tarawa kit with some new decals and PE and extra's. Like Jim said, first look at this kit and then comment. Some lessons are learned here, I guess ! I will be more carefull in the future ! Frank.