Dear Sir After 50 yrs I'm getting back into the hobby, I built the current kit your working on when it came out. We're I lived in Alaska had limited supply and reference material were by hit an miss. I did very well in my limited area winning more than I lost and made enough money to buy kits and build them during Alaskas long cold winter . You are sending me back to school , some of the things you have done would have taken me a week to do our glues were sticky guey all my reading an I would have worn out a sheet of sand paper removing Squadron Green Stuff from a seam .Airbrush was a problem last century unless you sold a kidney to pay for one .I have a million questions not right now . Shall I call you Yoda . Your teaching an old dog new tricks .

I like these cheaper priced Tamiya models that don't have 1,000 microscopic parts

So very appreciated, like your style and cadence. Thank you

This model got me into the hobby, it’s still on my shelf proudly standing there, I love this kit

My aim is to follow this series.. and will start on my second build, this one at weekend,. Learning from a couple of mistakes on the first model but giving me the confidence to push on. What a fantastic series and thank you 😊

I also enjoy the older Tamiya kits ....they wont break the bank and they look great when built and painted ..... on the hole filling .... plug the hole with a bit of spruce and glue, cut off the access ....then .....I use the tamiya grey thin putty and the thin white primer/ surfacer in the bottle .... I've used the surfacer on the gun barrels and it dones wunders..... just little things I've learned over 45 years of modeling , since I was bout 8 years old ( first kit a snap Spitfire from monogram ) ..... keep up the modeling and have fun 😁

For barrel sanding, I recommend using flex-I-file. Because they can conform to the curve, you’re much less likely to get flat spots than if using a rigid stick

Sincerely sir, I wish to thank you for your videos. A lot of the techniques that you teach have been helpful. I have recently gotten back into modeling, teaching the kids with your tips.

Thank you for this series... Need the refresher after being out of the hobby for thirty or so years. Added this kit to my stash because of this video!

Just stripped the paint on my StuG, but parts unglued themselves! Thanks for making these videos, I’ll be able to reassemble at my leisure!

Good video!! Built this kit in 1990s and was one of my first kits to build when getting back inti modeling. Had lots of fun building this old kit.

So I'm leaving one last comment. My apologies for coming off snarky, I had your videos playing on my work pc today. I rarely watch anyone anymore, and I found yours reminded me of how much I used to like watching modeling videos. My occasional jabs are actually how I comment on my friends videos like Panzermeister and Hamilkar Barkas. I didn't realize I was coming off like an ass. I really like your stuff. I come off like a douche a lot when I don't mean to. My bad sir.

I'm really loving these videos....the sprue idea for filling large holes is great...Thanks for making these

I built this kit about 2.5 years ago. It is a good kit.

this kit....oldie but a goodie

Thank you for doing this series. It is very helpful.

*Great built, with tamiya kits it's almost simple, i hope see the painting soon!*

Thank you so much for this series!

Superglue for filling. Nice tip.

I've never seen clippers like that before... Neat.

I am currently building this kit (second one ever), and I can't even believe, how helpful this video is. So many little tips that get overlooked by big modelling channels. Thank you SO much for this video.

Thank you very much for your tutorials...very good...I am forced to do things a little different as I live I a country where specialised model paints etc are few an far between..even the age old humbrol is getting hard to find....our money is worth shyt so importing is way expensive...I'm in South Africa....but I'm trying to use universal household grey primer...which works btw if sprayed in very light coats.....my intention is to try and use local cheap acrylic craft paints...very hard to spray....or what ever humbrol I can still find....the oil weathering technics are really cool...thank you....I have modelled in the past ...30 years back...but it was 1,72 intended for wargaming...all the fancy stuff was left off...1.35 is new to me...apart from two reasonable attempts...30 years ago...I have thousands upon thousands of 1'72 soldiers of all ages but can no longer see well enough to paint them... anyway....thanks ..

Brilliant, Mate!

Nice video. Nice model. Nice tank. I like it!

WELL DONE.

I have this in a CMK kit. Thanks for the build.👍👏👨‍🦳

Thank you!

I just build and paint. Mainly mono colour as I'm not confident in my ability to paint decent camouflage. I love my modelling.

I built this in the 80s and now my son is.

This was my very first tank model back in 1979

Хорошие видео. Даже не понимая язык можно только по видео учится и понять.

Thanks

Beautiful video. I would like to know what it’s called and where you can buy , the tweezers that cuts the wheels from the mask.

Love the video. At 21:50 they aren’t actually lifting hooks, on the real tank they were little hatches so the driver could shoot his pistol out of it, or for communication

The Stug........STUG LIFE!

hello.tell me what tool you use for initial cuttings.it's great. thx

Trying to put the spare wheels into the little holder on the side pissed me off so much trying to make them fit and stay lmao

Started mine last night 2 mins in digging out plastic is wrong mine fitted fine ☹️

Ive started weathering before the final mat coat, can i put the mat coat on at the end?.

I love these classic Tamiya 1/35 and (1/48 aircraft) kits from the late 60s and (mainly) mid '70s. With the exception of perhaps drilling out exhausts and similarly enhancing vision or ventilator ports, I don't try to turn a sows ear into a silk purse. They are what they are. Rough cast texture (Soviet) or Zimmerit (German (43-44) as applicable using putty and a die tool at most -where required, preferably avoided by selection. Relatively quick, easy and fun nostalgia enhanced builds, IMPE the fit is still characteristic Tamiya fabulous. Importantly they still very much look the part sufficiently for suspension of disbelief with 95% of the modelling public regardless their scale and accuracy isn't directly comparable with the most contemporary tooling. And I confess turning 'traitor' preferring Dragon's continuous run DS Tracks now over their Magic Tracks, and even the currently vogue link and length. So I can sleep at night too with Tamiya's venerable continuous run. From three feet away, Tamiya's look realistic enough standoff to these older eyes. And the price. What's not to love? In fact, as one sufficiently pedantic about fact to own a copy of Doyle and Chamberlain since circa 1983 among various other reference volumes and owner/builder of numerous detailed Dragon kits all of which are now circa AUD$110~$130 to buy new, the mid '90s Tamiya kits at well under half that are absolute gems which still stand up very well. e.g. Jagdpanther 35203 and Panther Ausf G late 35176. It doesn't hurt that my age perceives the '90s as just the other day although it was thirty years ago. Back to the subject, excluding shipping, this venerable Tamiya StuG IV 35087 can be had for just ..wait for it ...AUD$22.99 today!

Is this video meant to be "unlisted"? It doesn't appear on your main page, only in the playlist.

Just out of interest what did you use to cut the side skirts up with?

What kind of nipers are those ?

"You won't get this in newer kits[...]" That is not true. Meng armour kits are notoriously riddled with flash, even in the first run of their kits. I bought their Merkava Mk.3D a week after its release, and almost every part have some flash. The lower hull is the worst in this matter. But their KingTiger is the same thing, just like the Leopard 1. Their aircrafts are somewhat better, but not perfect.Newre Tamiya kits really don't have too much flesh, but you get a crapheap of ejectorpin marks instead.

I have to wait a week??? Crap!!!

Won't bother with all your doing miles to long doing mine in the bocage setting don't need to go over the top on the wheels won't see it anywhere when its finished try going into the stuff that will be visible 🤔

As far as accuracy is concerned this kit is a pig.

Iv built this kit, and i really don't like it, it is very old and not interesting to build and the quality is not very good in my opinion.

Those early Tamiya kits are not as detailed as new kits and lack accuracy. If you are building for fun or practice? Go for it. But if it's for a show or selling? Stay away. Lll

how can you talk so much