Just started my Mato Sherman, I intend to drive it a lot so will stay with the metal parts. One thing i happened to notice on your model: the fuel spill is not accurate, the rear of the Sherman runs down slope so spilled fuel is not running in a straight line to the side but slightly backwards and than along the side down. For the rest: nice job. Very nice job.

John, Outstanding man! This is incredible.

Oh man, this is fantastic!

Very nice job you did there, John ❣

Nice 👍

Ha, I see I got an honorable mention regarding the airflow through the engine grill. While I don’t run my tanks like rally cars, I do drive over some rough terrain from time to time. Looking at it I wondered about the fragility of the piece. I’ll just have to do my best to be as careful as I can with the grill. Don’t plan on doing a lot of reversing, but you never know, I accidentally made my Tiger barrel roll one time when backing up.

it's very impressive, thank you for sharing

I just got a similar set from AFV-C, my 1st try using their stuff. My kit is for a ~1943 "Nashorn" but essentially the same thing, maybe a little easier per link, but requires glue!!!! It is a frightening prospect to open up the bag, see so many tiny bits, and then realize that is one track, as in "of two". Oh well, too hot outside anyway right?

Beautiful work "Oddball " 😁 I have a cherry-picker project planned for the future. When I was a teen, I had the amazing Tamiya(sp?) (1:25 scale model), which was a really nice model for its day. I have always loved the interleaved wheel, torsion bar suspension. I have an old Biggs & Stratton Vertical shaft engine, and transmission from an old riding mower. I wanted to fabricate light weight versions of the early Tiger 1 wheels (probably half or (3/8) scale. My wheels will use a mold tool to create the shallow cone angle in PVC, then stiffen and strengthen them with a few plies of E-glass fiberglass. I want to gear the vehicle down to go slow. Its "Purpose" is to drive around the yard, and use a lift device, to hoist me up, to 10-20 feet up, to paint, clear gutters, and general maintenance. Do you (happen to know), the road wheel cone angle??? I have some drawings with dimensions, so I can ("trig -out") the angle to pretty close. But I thought you might know what the angle is, since you are clearly after authenticity. Thanks for any information. Matt

Back in the day, I had a single motor tamiya Panzer4 kit. It had a single motor and plastic geared gearbox. Unfortunately, the gearbox wore out in a month with light use. Unusually for Tamiya back in the day.

it's beautiful, great job!

Current control board is a TK7.0/7.1. The older TK6.0/6.1 has four sound sets included while the newer 7.x only has two sound sets on each board. There are two different control boards, one has the Abrams/Leopard sounds and the other has the T90/Tiger sounds. The x.1 boards have servo ports while the x.0 does not for both the 6.x and 7.x systems. The 7.x series has some additional features the 6.x does not. Both the 6.x and 7.x systems come with both BB and IR functions built in. The tracks look to be the Canshuo brand tracks as the HL tracks still do not have rubber pads on them. Mato also makes rubber padded tracks, but the Mato tracks come with the pads separate. The Canshuo (CS) brand tracks have the most robust rubber pads. Canshuo isn't a well known brand of parts, but anytime you see a part number that starts with "CS", the parts are made by Canshuo. Canshuo makes a lot of the different metal upgrades for various tanks to include the TUSK1 and TUSK2 for the Abrams.

This video is a godsend! I’m right in the middle of doing a lot of this stuff to my own HL Abrams. Can’t wait to see part 2 Interesting to see what I’m guessing are more recent upgrades to the HL Abrams. I got mine in April 2023, and my swing arms don’t have the groove in them middle and the base for the small track alignment wheels are all plastic.

this was my ride in the army. the snatch block is to go in the basket of the boom. and the boom cables go into clamps along the top of the hull. i was a 63h40h8 MOS

You should do a 1/6th scale m2 medium

Wow beautiful work

The t-90a

1:23:54 Takoms 1/16 scale Renault FT engine?

tijger181 is that you?

With that much detail on the bottom, I'd put a mirror under it! 😊😊😊

Hi, thanks for your videos. Also, I am wanted to buy 1/16 Tiger I mid production parts, but your email link doesn't seem to work in Outlook. Thanks for any info regarding this.

Honestly I do love this kit, as well as the airfix Matilda and Churchill crocodile

Nice one John 👍

Sadface the supports were not removed right after printing and while warm washed..

Also i glanced over the muzzle culminator of my Marui abrams and it is canted just like your upgrade part!

Today i learned that the Heng long abrams muzzle could be pulled out 😂 just like that😅

50:55. Ha, I said same as I’m using my pin vise to drill more holes for wire grab handles, etc, after installing your Atlantis M46 update on my Patton…😂 standard escalation. Nice work on your T6!

Another great build!

Vargas sells through their website at a significant discount to eBay if you're determined to have one of those subjects. Still not worth it for me given the resin nature and poor printer quality.

The radio set inside the vehicle looks familiar to me. Looks like the same radio I used when I was a member of a Canadian Army reserve armoured reconnaissance unit a long time ago. Possibly it's a AN-VRC-46 set?

where did you buy this?

Vietnam 1967. GIO LINH KHE SANH CAMP CAROL DONG HA Quad 50 gunner .

Very nice! I’ve an Atlantis M46 and your ECA update set up next to build, will be using your videos as a template.

Interesting tidbit about the real life M4A3E8 Sherman: This medium tank was actually favored over the more heavily armored M26 Pershing due to its reliability, and its excellent performance in the infantry support role. It was also capable of taking on (and many times defeating) the North Korean ((soviet) T34-85 medium tank

Cool truck...My father's MP unit in the Korean War had a deuce and a half with quad .50 calibers on it. He said the North Koreans would run like heck when they heard it start. 😅

Also the crew adds. More realism

Great review. I. Made the seats. out of Aluminum stock. The suspension can also use upgrades

The 66th MP co. stationed in Phu Tai VN. was the MP company that had the Marvel comic characters on our V-100's. The 560the did not. We had 16 V's and all but one had Marvel artwork. The only one that did not was The Lemon. I have no clue why the 560th get this attributed to them. The 66th was even mentioned in one of Marvel's comic books. We escorted the convoys from the staging area called the Ponderosa at QL1 and QL19 and took them up the An Khe pass then turned them over to the 560th about 2 miles past the top of the pass. Of course we shot up the " Welcome to the 560th AO" sign there every chance we got, lol. So please keep it historically correct. Marvel artwork was 66th MP company ! Also it was mentioned that these vehicles swim. Technically that is true, however we removed the plugs so that during the monsoon season, when highways 1 and 19 were flooded in places, our V's would stay on the road and not float off into the rice paddies. Thank you for a great video! P.S. Go to the 66th MP Co. Vietnam Facebook page. All my photos of our V's with the Marvel artwork are there, and more. P.P.S. I do have a picture of a 560th V-100, X-52 called God of Hell Fire, if any of you 560th guys would like to have a copy, contact me.

Nice build on a classic Tamiya kit from the 1970s!! As a retired US Army Tanker, the only time you have rust on the tracks of tanks, M48, M60 and M1 tanks when they’re sitting in the motor pool for weeks without being moved. In the field, the end connectors and other steel parts of the track are more of a satin, not gloss, gun metal gray.

Jeep, chấp mọi địa hình, tuyệt vời.

What would you say would be the best 1/35 scale T34/76 kit currently? Looking at the AFV full interior kit but not sure…

Another amazing build!

Those Aurora WWI aircraft kits were awesome, and also had great box art. Great company.

так вот с кого скопировали брдм2....

HobbyBoss are Trumpeters prenium brand, so it all makekes sence in the end. China in a nutshell i guess🧐🙄🙄

Not only an RC model but a work of art. The best 'grey' colour-scheme finish on a Tiger 1 I have ever seen. If I ever buy the Tamiya 1/16th Full Option kit, this is the paint job I would attempt to replicate.

Excellent video.

What's the difference between the Sabre and the Scimitar? Why did they bother making the Sabre if the Scimitar can do the exact thing already?

Jeep, chiếc xe quá tuyệt vời.

Thee man, thee myth thee legend...lol