i think the track was so elaborate because they wanted it to be able to actually work since the rollers were functional too, would be interesting to see them in action but i understand wanting to take the short way out, that looked like a lot of tedious work. Great video like always :)

Jesus Christ, I'm watching this in 01:30 AM everyone is asleep and the intro just decimated my heart.

264 parts for the bogies alone! Eeek.

I love these videos, they go into so much more depth and detail than I could dream of, mainly because Im so inexperienced! Great build!

If you are interested in doing a 1/35 Maos and want to skip the nightmare assembly I would recommend the Cyberhobby kit. It is very straight forward and looks exactly like the Takom kit.

Great work Andy. This will be one of my favorite builds since I was able to drop by the store to see you in the process of building the hull and tracks.

Saw the Maus in Kubinka last year, it was standing next to a huge Mörser Karl Gerät. At that time the old museum was emptied out, the tanks were removed to a new museum a couple kilometers away (Patriot Park). If you have the posibility to go there you should do so, it's an amazing place with a huge collection of tanks.

Great job Andy, I loved the build through on the suspension and the final paint scheme. I agree with you that it looks great finished and weathered.

The time you actually WANT one-piece tracks...

I just started on this model yesterday! thank you for putting the video up!

What happened to building tanks being easy, back in the day....almost have the same amount of parts like the real things nowadays! 😉😄 Another excellent video Andy! 👍👌👏

I had exactly the same problem with the track links with the Dragon Maus i made, had to be so careful cutting it off the sprue, i broke a lot but thankfully had loads to spare, made into a really nice model in the end even for an older model kit!

I'm seriously considering building this kit. So thanks for the guide. I've been building models for 20 years and I needed a little advice on how to build the beast.

Gonna enjoy this one! Love your channel, I think the videos have the highest quality of all armor model building content out there!

The intro is still too loud

Just found your channel. Awesome work! Makes me want to start building all the kits I continue to buy but never time to build.

Turned out great! What a massive kit.

I build this kit when i was kid,the kit absolutely perfect and the tracks are lovely,it’s easy for me to build.

This has to be one of your best videos. I don't usually watch more than the assembly BUT you had my attention for the entire thing !!! I'd have to say that after seeing this video, THIS KIT pretty well succeeds at completely taking the fun out of model building. I definitely agree with you about to much that you will never see again once it's closed up. I understand the track issue and I would have thought that it would be length and link with the complex assembly for the ends and just rap around like you did just by turning your drive sprocket. Once again a great video !

another great video of this ' what if ' series of German tanks . very interesting and full of great tips . excellent work Andy 👍

Damn you takom. Those tracks look like a nightmare. Why.

Great vid andy I have just bought this model kit going to start building it soon so this was a great help

Nice work Andy. Interesting kit!

I chuckled at the fact that the store's empty aside from Andy (check the surveillance video). I imagine he had the kids gawking at the boxes hide under the shelves while filming the intro.

Nice Tank Maus 👍 Super Cool.

Thanks, great video. Suggestion: When you need to loosen something glued in place like a side panel, glacis plate or similar things, just run some of the Tamiya cement over the seam and it will soften up enough that you can pull it apart without much problem.

Nice build, nice paintjob! how always :) I love your videos :D

Great video Andy.

Very cool build

This is one tank I love to build. The tank that they wanted to build with multiple turrets and was HUGE, wondered if that was ever made as a kit?

Tous les montages sont très bien réalisés....Félicitations ...

Very nice kit

A True model if you finish it and not crying you did a good job!

trats a big and bery nice model! keep up the great work!!!

Awesome stuff!

When i saw the tracks: *_no thanks_* Btw i bought one of the maus models yesterday and my dad had to do the tracks for me

Excelent build!

that F-35 in the background at the beginning caught my eye, i also see there is a meng 1/32 F-35.... might just have to find some reviews soon

With this video you helped me a lot. Thank you

massive guy :) surely not the best one to start with as a beginner. thx for sharing

great build

That thing is a BEAST!

Don't know if you see comments from older videos... but . I'm getting ready to build my Maus so I enjoy seeing your build. I Learn a lot from your experience. I've watched this video many times. Thanks.

another excellent video Andy

amazing as always, love the videos keep it up

Hi, Andy nice build and painting as always

Great video sir.

Woke up my whole house with that blast of music.

Hi Andy love your channel and all your videos. This one inspired me to get the Takom Maus. I do not want to criticise your work as you are a far superior and experienced builder and painter than I .I did notice though the instructions do let you know each side takes 55 of each of the 3 parts of track, leaving you 10 spare ones if you break any.Also I think the instructions say to put on one side panel then the top panels before you put the other side panel on... At least that's the way I interpreted them, it wasn't very clear and easy to miss the order of steps.Again love all your work, and inspired me to build models again, and I now use all your techniques on my builds.

All I can say is WOW. To imagine they seriously considered such a beast. I so love your camo technique I'm inspired to try myself. Could you do the M103 by Dragon next?

I love the E 100 with the Maus turret. Ist wunderbarr.

Got this kit a week ago, cutting track parts was the nightmare. Seriously, the join points on those fragile connectors should be reworked. I broke 6 of them, Thankfully there are 10 spare parts for each type of track pieces (you need 55x3 ans x2 that for second side and there are 3 panels with 40 pieces each, so you can take some practice before start clipping the things out). Everything is GLORIOUS! THe metal plate, the instructions, the quality. Even making tracks took me aroung 2,5 hours for both sides.

I know you built your tank without the full run of tracks but just wanted to throw this out there. It is possible to feed the tracks through whith the hull complete. It just takes a little jiggling but it will feed through over the return rollers. Also for removing the track links. The easiest way i found to remove them without them breaking. Snip out all the center conection points first. Then snip the ends loose. This relieved the stress enough to avoid breaking them. Keep glue handy as some could still break. Hopee this helps anyone out there watching this.

Nice great job!!

Holy cow! I cannot believe all the parts just for the track, let alone for the wheel assembly. Bless your patience on that build. My wife and I were watching this vid last night, and we just couldn't believe the parts for those section. Is that the norm for 1:35 scale models...tons of parts...just because? I do 1:48 stuff and they have a lot of parts, but nowhere near what a 1:35 kit has. Crazy...looking forward to your next vid.

awesome!

God damn that intro music was so much louder than initial speech I nearly blew my eardrums out

Классная работа! NICE!!!В ближайшем будущем планирую покупку этой модели))Good job!))

So I’m thinking of taking on a Maus. So as usual I check KZfaq videos. Although I seen almost all of yours I had to check others. Ha! The other builder’s videos are great. BUT, nothing compares to Andy’s. I think I’ll skip the Takom and go for Trumpeter. Thanks. As usual you are the best!!

Brother you are a fantastic teacher :)

Damn that nice detail though !

Wow, this thing is huge. Those tracks looked like a nightmare.

Way to go Andy!!! As for me I have the dragon, with fruil tracks, but I would do it all in sub assembly's, but I completely understand your approach. I salute you for your work nicely finished , great video. I am insane for punishment I will get a takom and di the whole track runs and modify the return rollers , so it will work. But again i am not criticizing you, your work and videos are fun!!! Keep it up. Now i want to go out and buy one!!! Lol Cheers Andy thank you !!!! Well done!!!!

the german word Maus is pronounced exacly like the english word, not an elongated "U", so just Maus, not mauuus

I hope you had fun with all of those tracks 😉

You have the patience of a saint!

Interesting I just built the Vespid 1/72 Maur ver 2. It appears to mirror this kit, but there are only 9 parts to each boggie. As you point out no need to do top track run. Came with photo etch and metal barrals as well. It looks like Vespid just scaled down the Takom 1/35 kit!

The instructions are clearer than Andy suggests. They do tell you how many track links to make (55 per side), they do show you to put pin E1 in before adding wheel W8/E2, which partly blocks access, as Andy found out. The instructions also show that the suspension arm assemblies and the track are added before the side skirts are glued into place. This is not an easy assembly, it is best done in one go, and after the parts are all painted, except for where the glue will go. This is not quite as hard as it sounds, as the assembly T11/T4/T5/T6 is a press fit into the sponson, and can be sprayed along with the sponson in one go. The suspension arm assemblies can then be completed and painted, glued in place, the painted/weathered track added and the pre-painted side skirts glued on in the careful manner demonstrated by Andy. The instructions (which are not flawed!) also clearly show that one side should be have the side skirt added, then the top plate (D1), rear plate (S6) and front plate (U1) should be added. This eliminates the problem of the lugs on parts S6 and U1 referred to by Andy. So, complete one side (wheels, tracks, side skirt), then add top, front, back, then complete the other side wheels, tracks, and, finally side skirt, and you will have no problems. Andy's suggestion that all the little auxiliary parts on the top plate "are going together fine" is not quite correct, he fails to mention that parts U2 and U3 have locating pins on the bottom, but there are no corresponding locating holes in the top plate, so the pins will have to be removed, and care taken to put U2 and U3 in their correct places by reference to drawings or photos. It should also be noted that, on part S6 (the hull back plate), there are two rectangular weld seams, which were only on the prototype, and were where extra weight was welded to compensate for the lighter "fake turret". They will need to be filled if you are building the V2 version as shown in the video.

Im doing the Vespid 1/72 version and must say its an awesome kit..pe and alumimium guns..icluded.saying that the guns supplied plastic ones are as good as metal ones as they are one piece and hollow ends..also notched underside for the brace that fits them....tracks also good one piece for bottoms top...and smaller parts for the curved areas,one piece and two pice so not so fiddly...recommend vespid one if you want a 1/72...its detail as good as this Takom one in 1/35,suprised Takom haven given the kit clear parts for the visors,periscopes

Nice work ;)

Well done Andy 👍🇳🇿

Good model

instructions show all track pieces x55. that's exactly what it takes to go around the suspension. there's tons of extra pieces if you break them cutting out.

I saw the Italeri 1/32nd scale F-35A in the background :)

hi i just want to say that you inspire me to do better and i love your work LONG LIVE MODELES

Building the trumpeter's Maus is even crazier with 1500+ pieces.

Hi Andy. First of all, thanks for another great video. But wow, you are a patient man! That is one kit that has very little to show for all the work that goes into it. A totally over-engineered take on the suspension and tracks that has me wondering what Takom were thinking when they designed this kit.

Спасибо☺

just got my kit. very impressive to physically see an hold it. im not looking forward to those tracks lol

Thanks you!You even don't imagine how difficult find model maus 1/35 in Russia

Your construction hints on the MAUS are very useful, thanks Andy. It looks like you need three hands or plenty of patience. tracks???

能有自己的模型店，羡慕~~~

World's most beloved throwaway tank

FINALLY the Maus tank!!

Cool

Great vid as always, you could have put a tiger 1 in front of those beast to show the true size of them, maybe in the future? Cheers

I love this kit i cant wait to get on the tracks are really good i lick them nice kit

With tracks like those, no wonder the Germans only built 2. If they'd built a 3rd that would have been the trackless version! Terrific build as usual.

Hi Andy, You have out done yourself in the construction of the Maus, the suspension would have given me a 'mental attack', well done and what's next? Les

I'm currently building this kit, so tedious and time consuming putting the bogies together and you wont see most of it! I haven't started the tracks yet, I'm really looking forward to them..........

The reality of the Maus is that, it looked on paper, but it was a nightmare to construct for the production plant (which is why only 2 prototypes were built) and a logistical nightmare for the crew to operate the heaviest and the slowest tank (8 mph) in the second world war. Other that that...Takom should've used metal screws to hold each suspension arms together than those tiny plastic pins you were having difficulty putting into place and a metal barrel. And btw, I looked into the Fruilmodel site, they have the metal tracks in stock, but then I noticed "440 links" that's way more than the metal track links on the four 1/16 RC Tiger Is I have.

Wow MAUS is very nice german tank!!

Theres the iron maiden. There's water boarding. And then theres setting up the Takom Maus' track links.

I built the Imperial Dragon Maus. The construction was so much simpler, even though some details were off. I think the Dragon one is better personally because the tracks were a breeze compared to this (they were length and link)

The treads look like the hardest part

Would be great to see building of Takom's T29/T30/T34

Excellent work again Andy!!! Can I request a build? Dragon's 1/35 7.5cm PAK40/4 Auf RSO? Perhaps?

18:20 - since I've just finished building a Maus myself, they DO tell you how many track links you have to do in the instructions. At least in my booklet.it's 55 "shoes"

19:09 Nice

Did you use pure Tamiya XF-60 Dark Yellow for the basecoat? It looks light to me.