Will the new panther HL has coming out beat the Sherman to production to? Or is the Sherman in production yet?

I don't think it is a secret that the Sherman is in production. Swath told us that a couple of weeks ago.

either im confused here or someone else is


mato toys does not make anything they are distributor business in ontario canada

heng long is the manufactoring business that makes some of the tanks matotoys/matomart sells
i "think" the 2 companies are linked together but dont quote me on that


correct me if im wrong here folks

Wooo. Not I'm really confused becuase I know for a fact that HL will be releasing an HL Sherman, so why would they design and build a Sherman for MATO Toys if they are doing thier oun. I dont understand, Quick get my Advil.

I have no idea

Concidering your the one that seems to think that matotoys makes tanks perhaps you can shed some light on this subject as I am very confused on how a Canadian distributer/retailer company makes cheap chinese tamiya knock offs

Darksheer

The Sherman is a Mato release. Heng Long and Mato are linked. UP until now Mato has been a distrubutor for Heng Long tanks. THere is a family connection between the two. THe Sherman will be Mato's first "project" tank. When you are talking Mato and Heng Long it gets confusing. I doubt there are many secrets between the two.

that explains everything

thanks for clearing it up for me I wasnt aware that mato was getting into the manufactoring side of things

now the important question

will the mato sherman be refered to as a cheap Canadian knock off/rip off [>:]

I think that may be why "Mato Toys Canada" changed their name to "MatoMart" .......

Actually it wil be a quality Chinese/American/Canadian original!!!!!!!

The "search" feature on this forum is your friend. It will keep you informed in case you miss something. Like the photos of the upcoming Mato Mart M4A1(76)W and my news updates on a couple of posts that are usually on page 1 of the forum every day.

As stated earlier, the tanks are in production and will be shipped together once the order is complete. There's a bunch of 40ft TEUs sitting on a dock in China waiting for Shermans! How long does it take to get from China to a port in North America? Then how long to Mato Marts warehouse traveling by a convoy of trucks across much of Canada?

When I get an update from the factory I'll pass it along to y'all.

P.S. - Mato is going to do a VVSS Sherman? Anyone have photgraphic evidence?

LOL Swath....No "convoy of trucks" is gonna be rolling across Canada with those Shermans -more likely 40-foot (ory, 53-foot) containers, running on 2 CN -owned "steel rails" passing within 50' ofour Apartment Block. If one happens to "drop out" here, I'll slap in a battery and "drive it"home". . If the whole container happens to fall off, Ishall have to "rescue" it.(There's already a hole in the trackside fenceand I have my own patented "tank recovery vehicle".....hehehehe).

An insider from China said that it will be released mid April, but it's already May...  hohum...

Killick: You're right but a convoy of truckers provides a better visual IMO!

Dongskie: April was a planned release date but we weren't satisfied with some things and fixed them. Then the factory made a bunch and these Initial Production tanks were thrashed around until a couple of minor issues surfaced and were dealth with. The design was frozen shortly thereafter and we're in full production now.

Guys...

I was one of the ones here that told you YEARS ago that Shantou-Mato was one of Hen Long's manufacturing companies in China, and that when MatoToys showed up, that it was their daughter-distributor company. Then again, no-one ever listens to me, right? Right.

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=6005491 (dated June 19, 2007)

Here is their web-site: http://www.matotoys.cn/eng/main.asp and click on Distributors. Torro in Germany, MatoToys (aka MatoMart) here in Canada.

Whats the relationship between Hen(g) Long and Shantou-Mato? From what I understood, Shantou-Mato is (or was) ~one~ of the HL factory/makers, and I would assume that if this Sherman is being flagged as a Mato item, that they went it alone, outside of HL's umbrella. Mebbe they are the sole maker, or just the final-assembly/main-shipper. Mebbe that was a front-name? Do we ~really~ care?

Bottom line is, the Sherman is right there on the front page, and yea Swathy, its VVSS. The News page backs it up with a bare-hull pic from port-aft (dated Jan 6th, this year) ... It looks pretty damn decent (though I'd say over-weathered) I'd buy it just to get one of the T26-type turrets (though I prefer the T23 style with oval hatch) and a cast hull. It would be nice to know if the VVSS can take the battlefield though. Shame to have to have to replace it right off with metal-cast parts.

Wow... I see a relationship, looks like its getting sweeter..

If the Sherman is released soon and the new Panther follows.... shoots.. which one am I gonna get first... (sherman {whispers}) lol

Patrick,

The pic on the Main page is from the box art. The other photos on the News page are from a prototype.

Dongskie: Sherman! Shermans are like Pringles, you cannot have just one! (quote stolen from YHR!)

33rd AR, 32nd AR, 66th AR, British, Canadians, Poles and South Africans all used them with distinction in combat!

AH... I stand corrected.

Whomever did the artwork did a rather good job, though I'd not want one quite that 'dirty'... And the Prototype looks rather good too.

Now I wonder who'll be the first (if anyone does, that is) to make Israeli M50/M51 conversion kits for these? Or Priest/M12/etc. GMC kits?

I think Pattoncommader would delight in a few Israeli Shermans. The TDs and an M7 are in the works if demand is strong enough. The M10 may come sooner then later.

Swathy,

Oh yea, I'd rather an M36 first, then an M10, and a Priest last in priority.

Mebbe yoa poll for the guys about if they got TD's, which they'd want first?

Can they release the Sherman yet? I can't wait to have one

He's already done a poll

www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_8702105/tm.htm

Yea...

But that dinna give us a 1-2-3-4 sequencing option, just which one ~first~.

After the next release we'll run another and see what the popular sentiment is then.

appears somebody allready has a mato sherman, unless its a heavily modified tamiya sherman,

i found this, in mato's gallery:

http://matomart.com/uploadfile/tanke...16120335-1.jpg

thanks,

Matt

That's gotta be a modified Tamiya. If you go through that customer's pictures, he has at least 3 AFVs built around an M4 VVSS chassis.

Very well done, though.