Andy, Thank You! After a 15 year hiatus from the hobby I stumbled across this build video. I immediately ordered the kit and assembled it using many of the techniques you used here. It was an awesome kit and my version came out really nice! I’m very happy with the results to quote you. Needless to say it but I am back into the hobby and couldn’t be happier. Love the videos so keep them coming and thanks again for rekindling my passion for scale modeling!

Thank you for taking the time to show your painting techniques.

Thanks Andy for this video. It has been a great help to me as I built my Abrams. I don't doubt the information that I got from your video kept me out of several problems. Building the turret mounting system would have been much more difficult, not to mention annoying, if I did not have the video. By the way I used a tiny ball of blue sticky stuff to hold the screws to my screwdriver with the turret ring. It worked great and the blue stuff easily pulled free after the screws were tightened. Now to paint.

Tamiya the best model kit company in the world!, been modelling for near 40 years and it is still the best.

just got this kit and its amazing. love the detail. your work is awesome and love how you explain the way you do what you do. makes the learning that much easier. thanks and keep up the great work

It's so satisfying watch models being built keep making more videos :)

Hey Andy, just wanted to say that this is another great build, and thank you so much, I have learnt so much from watching your videos. You impart knowledge in a wonderful, easy-going fashion, and your love and enthusiasm for the hobby is self evident and infectious. Thanks mate, I really appreciate all your hard work.

Hey Andy, from another Andy, I think you should start an online store again, the hobby shop near me specializes in trains and has very little armour. I would really love to support you but I'm only 14 and can't get to Arizona. Cheers

Your videos are great at reinforcing a strong set of basic skills that anyone can have a go at themselves at home and make it all look fun and easy. Great work Andy...

@anilouandcecille

6 жыл бұрын

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@suhhail6349

6 жыл бұрын

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Great nice Tamiya M1A2 display version model. See your video clip planing to buy one myself soon .

That monster is gorgeous!!!!!!! Very well made and weathered as well!

Andy you truly have the patience of a saint applying 1/35 painting techniques to a 1/16 kit. I would have just hit it with a rattle can and called it done ha ha. love this kit and great job on this video!

I love how fast the build was released after the review! I was expecting a month in between!

I have always stuck to revell but looking forward to switching to tamiya models. Love seeing your video as gives me a idea of what model to get next. Keep up the great work.

Love the Abrams along with the tiger 2 and tons of others keep up the good work.

that is pretty cool engineering on the m1a1 your doing a great job painting and building as u give tips to make it easier 👍👍👍

@mpmusic26

3 жыл бұрын

That’s just rude

Great video! Thanks for sharing. I have been building the RC versions of allot of Tamiya trucks and armor and I like this static version allot!

As always Andy; great video, great build, and very informative. Keep up the good work!

Nice work on the Abrams build...the tank is a monster.

sob this thing is huge! cant wait to buy it!!!! great build Andy!!!

@AndysHobbyHeadquarters

7 жыл бұрын

thank you

Great video that weathering is simple and looks good!

Wonderful work..wish I had that sort of turnaround time on my model kits...still over 60 in the stash!!!!

Wow! Absolutely superb! I want this and the Challenger 2 now! 😊

Andy, thanks for building this Abrams so soon after you received it for our viewing pleasure. As always, you did a GREAT job! Do you write a script for your video builds and reviews or do you just comment as you go along? Whatever method(s) you use, NO ONE does it better as far as I'm concerned. I think I would get tons of your subscribers to agree. PLEASE keep up your good work!

Man, that’s a really nice kit! I like that old military stuff but I wish someone made them in 1/24th and 1/25th scale and a detailed engine/pack! I’ve never built any military vehicles but getting more interested all the time now! Good video here too!

For your ball bearings on the turret ring. I use a bit of vasiline on a tooth pick stub to dab a bit in the spots needed to hold the bearings in place, Usually you need to ritated the unit several times to work them free flowing.

Awesome looking model and great finish! Thank you for the video.

Woot, been looking forward to this since your preview :D

Beautiful model Andy! That is one big kit. Great job as always. Cheers!

Nice build and nice to see that Tamiya is also promoting this item on their twitter :)

Wow, that's a big tank, thanks for showing us this beauty!!

I need one of these! Price wise I think my current crawler build rivals this kit. Tamiya makes awesome kits and they set they have always set the standard.

Nice. That fingernail polish really compliments your cheek bones and choice of table your working on. I just had to bring up fingernails. Awesome how it all came out. An absolute monster. The US military has some extremely cool vehicles.

Freaking AWESOME! You make it look so easy. Great job!

Awesome thanks 4 this looking forward to the release!

Wow, beautiful work again, that model looks like alot of fun

HA! Return rollers.... I though they were road wheels until you said something... that thing is huge

Great video! Excellent tips and technique. Thanks!

the paint skills, wow!!!

great video but here is a little tip with abs. from a printer guy. use a little acetone on a brush. but be carefull if you spill any it will melt the abs test it on some scrap. enjoy your vids andy :)

@AndysHobbyHeadquarters

7 жыл бұрын

Good tip thanks for watching

Tamiya builds awesome kits...

Fab video of an amazing kit!!

Impressive the evolution of plastic modelism, steel with plastic. 27 years ago I build this tank with three engines. One for the turret and two for the tracks, remote control, I think it was Tamiya, I didn't kept it with me.

Suspension and track are great!

Truly amazing video! I love all the details. best modeler 2017 keep up the good work!

Awesome kit nice job on it keep up the great videos.

These Tamiya R/C tanks are awesome, I just wish I could afford them! Thanks for sharing though

The price the industry is asking for these kits is beyond insane.

@statoilbensin2190

2 жыл бұрын

Agree! Buy Italeri, Airfix, Zvezda and Revell some of their new kits are just as cheap as their older ones and the quality of their new kits is just as good as Tamiya. Use scalemates to see if its a new kit or old that you should avoid.

@Yes-lq6id

2 жыл бұрын

@Klaus Einsenhower Not really some people only have like 20 or 30 dollars a month for models.

@nrfnrd

2 жыл бұрын

The one i have was $350.00.

@nrfnrd

2 жыл бұрын

@Klaus Einsenhower ouch

@parachutist29

Жыл бұрын

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Nice Video, great Job :) Cant wait to get my Hands on it, too. :D

Wow....that is huge.

Incredible, what a beauty

Been waiting all week for this vid! Thanks Andy!

Now that’s a Ta. Ank really neat Andy ! first thing. To do gets bowls and sort them screws .

Nice model and nice assembly video. Looking at the model, it doesn't look like it would be too difficult to get electrics and motors in there. It'd certainly hold a lipo inside down the middle.

Impressive, it was very interesting to watch.

Great work!

Great build Andy it looks superb

Omg love this video i don't have the time to build tamiya models its better to watch it be built

This is amazing!

Good video, and you can get a ratchet screwdriver kit with interchangeable heads including hex keys. As or the turret ring, vaseline will hold the ball bearings in place, and lube them, and you can probably use wooden toothpicks to line up the blind screw holes.

Wow! what an amazing kit. Fantastic looking finish Andy, well done mate! What I'd give to get one of these, but sadly would be way out of my price range.

great job!!nice tutorial....nice video,thanks!!

Daumen hoch klasse 💯✨️👍

Nice job!

Nice work Andy. One minor point: the optics on this tank should be a reddish colour, rather than the blue tint you used, due to the fact they have an anti-laser coating

Superb video. Subbed. Tamiya's engineering is once again show to be one of the best, if not the best, on the market!

Big and Great !!!!!!😉

THAT WAS SO COOL!!!! I like the metal piece. that make more realistic

Great job

Your work is awesome

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An excellent kit Andy very well finished, I wish tamiya did the British Challenger ll .

Love the tamiya kits Andy. To bad there not cheap in europe Great job 👍👍

Absolutely awesome

Good work.

I really like the paint job

YOU ARE DOING GREAT GOB

Thank God , for these videos

Nice one!

Fabulous video.

Awesome Kit

WTF!!!! This thing is amazing!! lol Well after seeing that price tag I just enjoy your tank.

excellent build

what a beast of a model 💯👍

Awesome!

Beautiful

I love that track movement it's so smooth I built a couple of italeri kits and the track movement is nowhere near as good as the Tamiya models

thats so beautiful

I'll need to look into this one. I built an M1a2 Abrams in 1/48 scale 20 yrs ago. It was my first tank ever. Could you include part number next time so it's easier to look up the model.

I built my M 1 back in 1984. All of my old tanks are long since gone. 1/35Th scale.

Outstanding!

Interesting subject and build. I watched the whole thing unfold in awe. Thanks for the video. I have a question: what brand of lacquer varnish was used to seal the paint job? I always thought that lacquer was not compatible with acrylic....

Hello, Andy. Thx so much for your brilliant work. I'm building a Tamiya 1/16 RC M1A2 now, watching your video on the process almost feels like cooking with Gordon Ramsey XD!

@chuichunkeung

5 жыл бұрын

Do you recommend to paint all metal parts with (I) metal primer & (II) XF59(50%)+XF57(50%) before I put the model together? Or I may leave the paint until the end? Thx

...nice job.

Andy the Model Master... Your new name should be "M&M." Wow, super nice build again keep them coming!!

@AndysHobbyHeadquarters

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you

damn great video! the day after u posted the teaser one about that kit i got worried, it was a long time before u posted this one!

I love this because I have one of these in town where I live that you are able to climb on and check out

Nice work

Great job. I really like you technique.

@cykablyat5611

5 жыл бұрын

Your

More weathering pls...nice tank!