I bought the Dragon M1A1 Abrams w/ mine plow #3516 and the kit has no tracks! It shows them as two sprue D’s, but it looks like I got four sprue C’s instead which are the road wheels. It’s no big deal since I also picked up the AFV T-158 tracks to replace the kit tracks, but you would think QC would have noticed this. I got this kit mainly 'cuz of the plow and it cost less than $18.00. After looking at it more closely it doesn’t look bad. I may have to build this one!
Not sure if DML has Quality Control at all. Someone was selling the DML Panther Coelion on Australian ebay a while back. The kit had a major fault, the lower hull was not fully formed, very noticibly so.
I’d take those extra road wheels off your hands. How about $5? Just cram them into a big envelope.
You can check out “Dragon Care” their help page
http://www.dragoncare.com/chsmain.asp
There is also a phone number here
http://www.dragonmodelsusa.com/dmlusa/welcome.asp
I have no experience with their customer service, but I have heard it is rather good.
The Dagon Abrams kits are pretty good. I like them. Unitil the new Tamiya Abrams kit came out, the Dragon ones were considered the best and most accurate on the market. I have also delt with Dragon Care before and had great service. They sent me replacement parts quickly and I was totally pleased.
Good luck.
Glad to hear it – the Dragon kit is next up on my Hit Parade. I hope that their care service is not necessary, though.
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Thanks for the reply and the new links. Actually I’m going to make lemonade out of lemons. I’m going to save the extra wheels for future use. I have six Abrams to build now with a seventh on order. I may need them. Sorry.
Some dudes at my LHS said the Dragon Abrams M1A1HA #3533 is supposed to be pretty decent, too. This stuff can get out of hand real quick!