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Barcode: 0 89195 87322 4
  Case Pack: 48 Pieces
  Box Size: 6.4" x 10.2" x 1.9"
  Features:
  - New turret produced with fine detail
  - Turret has add-on armor
  - Slide-molded one-piece 17 pdr gun barrel with hollow muzzle brake
  - Commander's hatch with periscope
  - New rear stowage box
  - Upper hull is new tooling with sharp detail
  - Newly tooled hull rear plate is crisply detailed
  - One-piece T54E-1 VVSS tracks in DS
  - Finely rendered horn & headlight guards
  - OVM tools recreated in intricate detail
  - Photo-etched parts included
  - Cartograf decal
  The Sherman tank saw widespread Allied use in WWII, but its original 75mm gun 
  was inadequate for taking on heavily armored German tanks like the Panther and 
  Tiger. With remarkable foresight the British decided to fit a 17pdr antitank 
  gun, able to penetrate a Tiger I’s frontal armor at 1000m, to the Sherman. Thus 
  the Firefly was born, with approximately 2200 eventually produced. Most Fireflies 
  were adapted from the M4A4 and were known as the Firefly Vc (“c” denoting the 
  17pdr gun), while a smaller number were converted from the older M4 and were 
  called Firefly Ic.
It is the first ever Firefly Ic in Dragon 1/72 model kits. Based on the Sherman I (M4), it has a cast one-piece differential housing and a characteristic turret stowage box – this housed the radio equipment that was displaced by fitting the larger gun. The turret and lower hull are brand new castings that capture the characteristic look of this Sherman variant.
