Thanks guys ! Keep up the great work on the pod

It's a wicked vehicle !

Cheers mate 🍻

Thanks Panzer -meister 🙏

Thanks Sad Panda, funnily I saw some sprue shots from a new miniart set with more traditional alignment pins yesterday

Thankyou José

Thanks Peter 😀

Thanks Steve

Thanks Andy, I was considering a vignette, but I spent so long on the project I ended up burning out pretty bad, so nothing planned at the moment

Thanks Stefan !

Much appreciated my friend 🙏

Thanks Joaquim, I was a bit concerned that people would have lost interest but it seems not ( luckily ) glad you like it

Thanks mate ! I have a few teething troubles to iron out but it seems promising.. shame youtube will compress the video to death though 😅

Thanks Darson100 👍

Thanks Charlie I appreciate it !

Thanks Robert, something planey is on the way

Cheers John, I have a bit more motivation now which is good !

Thanks mate! hope alls well

Cheers Ben !

Thanks ! The figures are surprisingly the thing that was holding the project from being completed. Glad they came out good tho !

No dramas Mark ! I know the score. All good here thanks, hopefully alls good on your end too 😀

Thanks Basil 😊

Thanks Gaz, didn't know the old one had a metal engine that's cool !

It would be mad for them not to, but you never know with tamiya 😄

Cheers mate !

Cheers Steve !

Thanks Gav 😄

Cheers mate, Tamiya have started rereleasing their old figures to be updated. They finally listened and are putting out some really nice ones. Good to see a company take the initiative

Thanks Bob, quite often I burn through the lot, it's not very often I have to empty the cup. When I'm mixing colours in pots though there is some wastage. If I have empty paint pots I'll recant them but often I'll loose the mix.

Thanks Bruce, with the vms fast setting it seem to be quicker to dry than extra thin, but a but slower than the extra thin quick setting. Adhesion wise it cures quickly and is durable. Very similar to extra thin, just a teensy bit quicker.

Thanks! I think its the nature of the brown pigment. I have had trouble with all of my fine nozzle needle combos and many brands of red brown ( 0.2 and smaller). A fun fact, some pigments cannot be ground finer because it drastically effects the opacity of the paint to a point it may be rendered useless. That's why some paints are just coarser (microscopically) than others.

Hi mate, I would be lost without my VMS stuff now, the varnishes are next level, I dont spray them really thick though just wet coats, I havent used the gloss so can't comment on that but the matt and satin are very nice indeed. I use a lot of their other products as well and I get the impression they are well thought out and tested properly before release. Definately worth trying

Thanks Mark, power director Pro and I pay for premium.

Thank mate. 3rd gen seem pretty matt out of the gate, regular vallejo varies on how thick you paint it I think but tends towards satin a bit

Thanks Ian, 0.15 for everything for me !

Thanks ! Artis opus series s 2/0

It appears so images.app.goo.gl/4KHb724EboNKj8ju6

Cheers, h&s infinity CR 0.15

@@lpjmodels thank you dude it looks good. I’m looking to upgrade my iwata neo

About 8.6 cm !

Thanks!!!@@lpjmodels

Thanks mate. That's some great footage

List of tracks at the end u less this is a spam link

@@lpjmodels I'm sorry! I stopped the video when you finished. That was great.

@@kingmori1 thanks a lot ! 😀

There is an old version from the 70s and this one that was released within the last year

@@lpjmodels I know and I belived they used some of the same parts.

@@statoilbensin2190 I took a close look here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z5ePe9Ge2NnefIE.html And while some of the parts breakdown amd assembly is similar there are too many differences in surface detail, the two side Hull panels and construction are similar but fit together slightly differently. I'm going to have to disagree with you on this one I'm afraid. 100% new tooling.

@@lpjmodels well I only had wery small problems witch was easy to fix using putty. Maybe it was just me.

So did the decal designers.

@@lpjmodels Ok, but after all it's a German vehicle, you know... ^^ Great video btw.

Ahh, a wiff is the smell or aroma you get when walking past a neigbors barbecue, and smoove is how I am when approaching your mum at the bar.

@@lpjmodels Ah. Smooth?

I'm like 90% sure that's not how you spell smooth and whiff @AR Cherry

If I didn't state what I was using I'd be spending a lot of time in the comments answering questions lol

I appreciate your dedication to accuracy, but bro I was just following the instructions. Are you going to also go out and gatekeep every other inaccurate build on KZfaq?, if so, you might need a few hundred years. Sometime I want to delve into the nitty gritty with a build, down to pigments used and try my best to match them. Sometimes, I just wanna build a model. The real person to complain to is Mr. Tamiya, but I'm sure you won't get anything from him.

Here are a few references showing multitone camo on the Kettenkrad. www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery/germany/halftracks/kettenkrad/101st-airborne-troops-normandy-14jun1944/ www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery/germany/halftracks/kettenkrad/nsu-kettenkrad-4/ www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery/germany/halftracks/kettenkrad/nsu-kettenkrad-8/ www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery/germany/halftracks/kettenkrad/kettenkrad-8/

@@lpjmodels Just because some individuals went against orders, does not mean those are correct schemes. Roughly 9,500 KKs were built during the war. 4 examples of non-compliance is less than 1/1000th, a statistical error. They were delivered from the factory in either grey (early war) or yellow (mid to late war). This has been extensively studied by vehicle owners and the leading experts in WW2 German vehicles. Most of whom are still alive and still active. You may want to google the "rambo kettenkrad", restored and kitted out by a Frenchman whose imagination ran away with him. Just because it looks nice, doesn't mean it is in any way accurate. It is more a mobile museum than a vehicle as it has more weaponary and kit than a squad of infantry. Isn't the modelling community supposed to be into the rivet counting thing and all about accuracy? Are all those kit reviews I have read that go into minute detail about the number of rivets on a vehicle or the changes in detail of a particular item in a specific month of Tiger production the exception rather than the norm in modelling?

@@2217Video I understand where you are coming from, the exception to the rule not necessarily being the norm, but as the hobby is a hybrid between historical and artistic I think there is room for either approach, and a blend of the two suits me well. I value authenticity, and to derive that I do usually look at some reference images, for a more casual build, this one for example, I will look at a few references to see how the vehicle wears, what schemes are used, and look for any really glaring errors. If you model a specific vehicle for example, as a broad example one of wittmans tigers or Baders hurricanes, studying the specific vehicle for paint schemes, wear, unusual features e.t.c is useful, for a generic build just to build, like this Ketten, I simply dont invest that much into the exactly was, more the could have been. For other builds, I will go a little more overboard, the Italian flying boat I recently built was a minefield due to the lack of reference, even after contacting a restoration society I got contradictory evidence on colours. I made several corrections and improvements. But my end goal is authenticity, and by that I mean a believable miniature, not strictly a facsimile of the original. Rivet counters in the hobby are wrongly derided, I think it's healthy to have both approaches in a hobby. But I think for the majority of builders, authentic is good enough. Some take it further. I'm currently building a specific marking version of an aircraft and there are no publicly avaliable references, so it's going by plausibility at the moment !

@@lpjmodels However, I am rather disappointed that the Caunter Matilda scheme as depicted by the IWM etc turned out to be wrong. That Tamiya Matilda was one of my first models and I had it for years. I quite like that quirky appearance.