Tamiya 1/35 U.S. 2 1/2 Ton 6X6 Cargo Truck FULL BUILD VIDEO
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- čas přidán 12. 10. 2022
- In this video we take a look at building the first softskin vehicle on the channel. The venerable GMC truck!
Building this 1997 Tamiya kit out of the box, only with some basic scratch built details.
Fantastic build. It demonstrates that a model doesn't need to be an armoured vehicle to be fascinating.
I'm so happy you said that! As this humble truck was so much fun to work on and I find it has a character all to itself!
Great result. I love those older Tamiya kits, and they can be built into very nice models - as you've shown.
I really dig their older kits, as its such fun adding a few of my own details to them. Its a great way to develop my skills on
Hi mate, thanks for sharing your build, just about to start on this kit and found your video very informative and helpful. Great work, lots of ideas for a display base. Cheerz from Straya 🍺😊
Glad it was helpful! it is a great kit to build!
Good work and far from basic, the stowage sells it for me! Great to see that the supply vehicles get some love and attention, too.
Thanks Mate! I hope you've been keeping well Michi!
The old support vehicles don't get the love they really deserve at all! Which is a shame as they provide such interesting modelling possibilities and some truly cool looking vehicles too
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It's the best when you find an interesting detail that makes the build far less annoying or hard.
100% As I was about to lose my mind trying to get the canvas cover to work lol
Great video as always Shane, and a massive thank you for increasing the volume, its a huge help for me, I can hear you clearly now.
You could add a cigarette to the soldier too, that and the lamp with a leaking Jerry can and you could call it "the calm. Before the storm"
Anyway, thanks again mate, very much appreciated.
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Ah great! Glad you could fully enjoy this video!
Haha I like it! As health and safety was I pretty lazed thing in field lol
@@longlance67 yeah, I can just see some good old southern country boy who's list doesn't quite reach the top floor filling a can with a cigarette burning away in his mouth and using the lamp to see if it's full 😂
Perfect "supporting cast" for a diorama. Tanks as you say get all the attention so you can give the truck a good mudding and or dust job, and with the stowage it will seem to have more detail than it really does especially if you do a good job on the figure. Make him match the rest of the figures elsewhere and their level of detail will sort of magically carry over.
Just brilliant.
The tanks get all glory but without these supporting vehicles the armored units could be as effective as they in the field. It was US logistics mastery that gave their fighting units that extra flexibility in battle. I've always wanted to do mega dio based on that famous photo of the French 2nd Armored getting armed and fueled in the field. Its just a meadow filled with M4's and GMCs lol
@@longlance67 Yep. American industrial capacity and adaptability surprised everyone (including us what with typewriter companies making machine guns). There's a story that a captured German officer knew it was over when he saw us unloading filled sandbags from ships. Probably apocryphal... but maybe not.
What an interesting subject instead of the usual armour. Love the fuel cans and add ons.
Thanks mate! It was a lot of fun to do something a little different, yet so important to the story of the US armored Divisions in the war
Лампа в кузове с горючим - просто огонь!
Love your build here.
thanks mate
Great start!
thanks!
It's a great build, one of my models im most pleased with, great for Diorramas, and you've done a great build here !!
Thank you very much!
What an awesome build Shane, thanks for sharing 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Shane, did you know that Tamiya made an accessory kit that included a hook for the end of the string?? I put a knot in the string to connect it at the start of the winch assembly. It allowed me to wind the string on the two hooks on the bumper.
Is that the set that includes the MG ring and bumper extension ?
Very nice build. I've been waiting for a order from tamiya of 5 ton and the 2.5 ton trucks. I drove both of them in the early 70s. As well as any of the armor. So your video was nice to see. It prepared me for what to expect. It was a very good build
awesome! Should be a great nostalgic build!
I like the composition. Regards!
Thanks mate! I really enjoyed creating character to this kit
Outstanding model and a great build. Your details really make the truck pop. Great job.
Thank you very much!
Hi Shane, I may have to add this kit to the stash. I agree with you on the new Tamiya figure sets they are really nice and yep the figure you are using is the best of the bunch, I managed to butcher the head but Hornet Heads came to the rescue.
gotta love hornet! they do some of best heads out there!
Hi Shayne, that was a superb build of a very iconic kit from Tamiya. and as others shave said, the older Tamiya kits are a breeze to build, I have their 'old' Pink Panther in my stash to build, but would like to get this truck sometime, looking forward to the painting episode, best regards from a Kiwi living in Australia.
They are such fun kits to build! I really want to build that SAS Landie at some time as its such a cool vehicle. I hope to start to painting up the truck this weekend
A Kiwi in Oz OMG !!!!! lol🤣😂
*Very good result, Tamiya kits are still the best and your cover is beautiful!*
Thanks mate. Tamiya is still King lol
Well done. Glad you had fun building it.
Thanks 👍 It was great fun!
Unexpected surprise to see a new video! A welcome one to be sure though. Thanks for these videos, love them, and you do such great work.
Cheers mate, I am trying to get more content out going forward, so keep an eye out
Great stuff! I just recently acquired this kit. Looking forward to building it sometime down the road. Love the canvas roof.
Its a great kit Russ! You will love it!
Nice build 👌
Glad you think so!
Alice vehicle choice,lots of potential.
There are so many awesome variants of this vehicles I would love to see in plastic!
Awsome work love how you shy away form armor and did a cargo truck. The stowage looks really nice who knew so may jerry cans could look so nice. The cargo trucks made the March to Germany possible I agree they get overlooked. When Christmas comes I’m going to get me this kit.
Thanks mate! It was a real nice change to model this often overlooked subject. And your totally right, these support vehicles were the key to the armored division's bite.
I would really recommend getting your hands on this kit, its such a joy to build!
@@longlance67 anything from tamiya is a joy to build my friend
Excellent build Shane. Really enjoying your videos. Can't wait for your next one. Cheers mate
Thanks mate, glad you are enjoying them so far! I hope to have the next episode of this project up in a few day. Covering the painting and oil weathering steps!
These kits are fun to build i have a radio control 4wd model.....my more like a mad max truck
That's very cool!
Looking forward to this one.
enjoy
Nice build and video, Shane. Take care.
Thanks Rick!
Nice build Shane, love the extra details to the cab......some of Tamiyas older kits are well worth a bit TLC 👍
Thanks mate! It was so much fun to add even those small details! Your totally right about Tamiya kits being great for adding your own extras to!
I remember when that kit came out now I feel old.
Its makes you feel better, I was 7 when it was released lol
@@longlance67 Ouch, I was 32!
Hi Shane. As I watch your video tears of envy are rolling down my cheeks - last year I built the one from Italeri, and it was horrible! Neither locating pins nor locating holes, everything was glued on flat surfaces, nothing to hold the parts together - it took me forever. But with some scratch building, lots of stowage, and heaps of paint and weathering it turned out pretty nice, if I may say so myself 😁 In the end it simply pays out to be persistent and creative!!! I'm anxious to see your paint job - when will the video come out? Cheers and all the best to you, Mike
Hi Mike! Oh man that kit sounds like a right pig to put together! But fair play to you for pushing true and getting the result that you are proud of! And your 100% right, being creative and persistent really does pay off!
I am hoping to have the painting and weathering video of this truck up in about two weeks!
@@longlance67 Great! Looking forward to it.
Well done
Thanks
Came out good
cheers
Nice build Shane! I’ve always loved how the Tamiya kits go together plus their instructions. Where did you say the lantern came from?
They are such awesome and nostalgic kits to work on. The lantern is from a bonus spure from Asuka kits
Ahh you've a lovely accent , English always sounds nicer with an accent .
cheers
Very cool. You've got quite a job ahead of you painting all the oil canisters. I'm already curious about the result
Greetings from the Bastel 🤘🏻Bude
It will take a long time to paint them all up. But hopefully the airbrush will take the pain out of it
you got a sub from me,for the tip on the cab wire ,and thanks ,just added it to mine
thanks for the sub mate!
Nice build! These soft skins have so much character and really add to a scene! 👍 I use the quick set cement and Contacta in the same manner. I notice that you (and a lot of other builders) like to 'slop' on the liquid glue, do you need to to clean that up or do you find it disappears under the primer/paint?
100% I feel the same, having support vehicles really add great character to a scene. It really gives an indication of complex machines that were these fighting units were. I would love to create a scene of an armor unit getting resupply with loads of these trucks bring fuel and ammo to armor unit in their staging area. Would be such an awesome diorama to do!
As for glue, for most part its hidden under the primer layer. But any heavy glue marks I tend to scrap or sand away before priming
@@longlance67 I have the photos, Centurions in a refuel/ resup.
The kit would look 100% better using photo etch parts from Eduard,
True but I wanted to do an out of box build
Too much talk, in my opinion anyway.