Villiers de Vos
Nice and methodical.

Jakko ‌
Quick tip: if you don't want the suspension units to be movable, you can use these ejector pin nodules instead of the little springs you get in the kit: Sherman V "Cock o'the North", 1 November 1944 | Album by Jakko (1:35) (also see the photo before that one).

Also interesting to see that RFM now moulds this kit in sand-coloured plastic rather than light grey like it was a few years ago.

Karel Doležal Autor
Thanks for the tip, but I've already assembled it with springs. Yes, I have the sand-colored model, but the tracks are gray.

Jakko ‌
Oh well, maybe someone else will read it before they assemble their kit 🙂

Karel Doležal Autor
I have to say that I now understand why the manufacturer replaced the gray plastic with the new sand-colored plastic. I have a combination of sand-colored plastic on the tank and gray plastic on the tracks. The gray plastic is much more fragile, and when assembling the tracks, the connecting pins broke when I was joining the links. Even when unpacking the frames with the tracks, many pins broke off the frame on their own. And, of course, I lost a few of them, so I wasn't able to finish them. Luckily, I had a few connecting pins left over from the Meng Sherman kit, which I used. If I hadn't had them, I would have had to buy a new separate set of tracks. Why don't they put more of them in the RFM kit, like other manufacturers do? And because of their fragility, I had to make the tracks permanently non-functional. Because after gluing them together, they broke spontaneously. I really wanted to throw them away.

Jakko ‌
I haven't built the tracks that came with the kit I backdated, because I needed a different type of track for that, but I will keep this comment in mind for when I do want to build them 🙂

Construction is the same as for MiniArt Sherman tracks, right? The connectors have two small pins that are trapped by the halves of the block? In that case, you could probably use connectors from MiniArt or Gecko tracks, as they all use this method. I know for a fact that MiniArt provides a good number more than you actually need for a tank.