A Beginner's Guide to Model Making | The Tank Museum

I can't take you seriously with that goofy mask on your face.

This is cool!

I wish to have a Tiger, a Leopard, a M1, but real, but the only way to adquire one is as a model scale, so t-h-anks for the video

Thanks!

Do they work??

Thank you for sharing. When Brush Painting, did you thin the paint? or straight from the bottle? The tank looks wonderful with no visible brush strokes.

Nice visual reference for painting! You just turn around, lol.

Does tank museum ship models internationally? I want to buy a churchill tank that's why

Hello nice model
Where did you get the sand bags armour on the model ?
Thank you.

Just bought a starter kit with a awosame panzer II to build with my father, cant wait to build it

This is the best, and most positive, beginner guide I have found. It is really encouraging and makes it seems like I really can build a model that looks really nice. What is the glue and paint set that he showed in the video? Thank you for making this video.

Does anyone remember a military show at Bovington back in around 1999/2000? Me and my parents had a table in front of that Cromwell tank, it was in the old building and there was this passage where people walked through and a sensor with a black ceiling speaker that set off this marching music.

Some people learn moddeling for fun I learn modeling to have a excuse to huff glue

How about "Steve Malley's Top 5 Tanks", based on the top 5 model kits the gift shop sells? Thanks again.

the first model i ever got (i remember so clearly) was a trumpeter t55. I finished it but i was so bad at building those at that time some pieces aren’t even put on xd. I still have it but i kinda broke the gun lol. I am now more better at building and paints with brush and acrylics. I’m thinking of getting another T55 to recreat the one i have right now.

What type of paint do I use ? Honestly there's a lot of paint types, but I only use acrylic

You jumped from "next step is to glue the gun barrel pieces together" to sanding it. Why?

And more generally, given this is a beginners' guide, you're doing things without saying what you're doing and why...

I'm just starting tank Model making, don't have much free now days because of kid and work. But I would love to build all my favorite tanks when I retire.

Came back to modeling in my fifties after a gap of about 35 years. Generally do WW2 AFVs with a preference for German as there's a much wider variety of camouflage patterns to use. With Allied armour, it's shades of green or sand. A bit monotonous - ! 😁

Why on Earth is the host wearing a mask? He's alone on camera. The point of an instructional video is clear and concise information to be conveyed. Wearing something over your mouth makes anyone muffled and unclear plus it's just distracting.

This might be one of the dumbest and most baffling things I've ever seen.

Great video

It's one thine to build a tank. Its another thing to build a tank right in front of an ACTUAL tank!

Thank you for this video, good info! Also, nice Omega Seamaster.

Took me a minute to realize he was pronouncing decal lol. Overall great mini tutorial. Starting my first model "Stryker M1127 Reconnaissance Vehicle". Plan to give it to my oldest brother since he drove those back in his army days! Just need to get all the essentials.

I am very jealous of the Tank Museum crew.
History in general and in specific, military history, has been an interest and hobby of mine since highschool.
I would be in heaven if my career was sharing that enthusiasm with others.

I think everyone’s dad first bought them an airfix spitfire as their first model, definitely was for me (international experience may vary)

Hey, much respect about the trip to the hospital he could have just said “no” and kept going. Everyone has one of “those days”.

Great stuff, I’ve got two kits that I bought about 6 years ago from the museum, this has reminded me that I ought to dig them out.

PLEASE HELP!
I want to buy something similar for my brother, I think it would be the perfect present for him.
My question is (i know it sounds pretty stupid) does the glue come with it or should i buy one separately?
The problem is that I live in a small town, in a small country, and that precise glue thingy would be really hard to find...
Looking forward for answers :)

Very Wholesome

Yeah, I wanna see more of this guy. Let him have a segment where he puts together various kits. That would be cool 👍

MIG is the MOST beginner unfriendly paint to go for..

Thanks this helps. I never was good with glue and paint but you can't really find the snap on models so I'll have to try again with glue and paint models and see if I can do better.

im going to start tank modeling because tanks are my favorite and im going to start today or next week

He didn't thin his paints?!

What the point of the mask?

It would be nice to see your face instead of that useless mask. Oh, that's much better, thank you.

What glue using

Please do more with him just making models start to finish it’s very relaxing

Damn pretty epic to be building the exact same tank but a little model next to the real thing

thank you for showing me what do i need to build my own one :D i allways wanted to build the type 74. now i know what i need

Ever thought about the nonsense of those ridiculous muzzle?!

Its like chicken wire against mosquitos, ...

I'll guess you would wear a rain jacket as a bullitt proof one.

Down voted cause he wears a mask. Weak.

take that mask off

i can recommend people trying out 3d metal kits, they are very small but it pays of when you are done

1/72 scale is my prefered scale, dioramas nicely match up with airplane models aswell. Zvezda does some nice stuff if your looking for russian things

Love the shop . I dream of setting one up for hobbyists . But if I could get a Tank to sit outside would be even better

other 1 percenters : have a towel over your lap for small bits go flying , buy some needle files from hardware to remove sprue cuts and mold lines , get a old pair of tweezers ones with bend in them are good , use plastic cement with the long needle dispenser ( model master/testor / revell ) , small cable cutters ( hardware ) , don't remove anything until the instructions say to in the instructions , read the instructions really well before starting , learn to have patience of a Tibetan Monk