I dissagree with Gp100 completely abour Taigen tanks. They are not junk and over priced. Lots of the henglong tanks are junk and over priced. Taigen has plastic tanks and metal tanks, i own many of the taigen shermans and they are the best sherman tank available hand down. Better than the tamiya, sorry guys. I own every sherman that has been made in 1:16 and the taigen is the best. Taigens plastic tanks are just rebranded henglongs while their metal tanks are the premium line and good quality. The radio system in the taigens is fine, its a toy radio like a henglong radio system. My 4 year old has had a henglong sherman for 2 years and i have had to move a few radio sysetms salved from my builds through his tank as he has put sand in the transmitters, dropped them, broken off antennas but the henglong sherman still runs despite him pushing it. The henglong sherman is one of the better models henflong produces.
Every tank model company has good and bad models. As far as shermans go, both henglong and taigen are good, but taigen is top notch. If you want to build one tamiya is excellent but, not as bullit proof as the taigen, but a very very close call. The reason is the tamiya is a better machine and needs a tad more maintenance than the taigen, the suspension is also a tad more fragile but well worth it.

my henglong panzer3 , yes surprise i have one, is very good, all i had to do was put metal sprockets on it amd stretch the plastic track two links becasue it was too tight.