Egyptian Sherman

Ingo F
Interesting. Watching. 🙂

Dan M
Yeah, unfortunately the kit is very bad. I got it with a discount, otherwise at full price it's pure theft.

It's got a mix of sprues from some very old Dragon Sherman kits, the M4A4 and the Sherman Vc Firefly. It actually is the same thing as the Cyber Hobby Firefly kit (the Orange Box). The sprues that are supposed to be new (the AMX-13 turret) are so incredibly bad that I cannot believe they carry the Dragon name on them. The moulding is so horrible that the almost 20 years old sprues of M4A4 look amazing compared with these.
So in a nutshell you get an Orange box plus some awful AMX sprues and this retails in some places for almost 70euros!

Not to mention that they got things wrong and while they retooled the engine deck (since the egyptians transformed all the M4A4 to use the diesel engine from M4A2), but they forgot about the exhausts, so you get to put the Firefly Vc type of exhaust for a tank that's supposed to use the M4A2.

It's this level of bad 🙁

I will add an album soon.

Dan M
Album uploaded with current build in progress

Ingo F
Wow, thats not a good thing to hear. I think the price for Dragon kits was always that one point that hold me back from buying their models. In my opinion way to overpriced. 🙁

Dan M
Well I don't mind the high price as I have paid similar amounts for some GWH or Meng kits that were woth it but for that price I expect some quality delivered. In this case it's an Orange box (which is supposed to retail at 30-35 EUR) and some horrible sprues that even 20 years ago would have been considered bad.

Now mind you, I do have some Dragon kits which are just brilliant. But this is not one of them. And their quality seems to be very inconsistent lately. They do seem to put out great kits for WW2 German armor, not so much for everything else.