Let's Give This Old Sad S35 Somua A New, Happier Life!
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
- My friends, tonight calls for another rescue project but this time it won't be one of my "restoration" attempts, but rather me trying to save an old shelf queen! And it's not just about finishing this S35 Somua from Tamiya, but also giving her a new life with a more vivid, lively French camouflage.
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I'm most impressed that the cast steel texture is still easily visible through what, seven layers of paint?
Glad you're feeling well enough to sit down and paint. Keep healing Uncle.
If the paint is sprayed smooth, it shouldn't fill in any of the cast texture :)
I guess this time Nightshift wouldn’t say: But the model looked better before. With me thinking, but it already looks better than any of my models.😢
It always looks better before, that's the point of reworks/restorations/saves :D
hi modkits i love your vids and builds, specially because they are all brush painted!
I would've gone with other camos, but tbf back then french camos looked like some preschoolers had their way with a paintbrush so it's not as much Nightshift's fault than our weird designers from back then lol
It's good to see some of the more obscure vehicles like this one. I'm so bored by seeing Panthers Tigers and Hetzers. Look forward to seeing how you progress on this project
A PZ-IV wouldn't be bad, lots of cammo options.
its not obscure
Obscure? Really?
Wait hetzer where?
I haven't actually seen many hetzers 😪
Early war French camo is such an interesting color combination!
I am a big fan of the Somuas. Their camouflages are super interesting in my opinion.
Watching with great interest this video even more as you described all the suck sometimes we have to embrace while painting a model. You keep it 100% real. Thank you!
Big fan of the 'Nursery Wall' French camo scheme!
Night Shift is Best Shift!
This man is restoring things that look better than anything I've ever built
Hey uncle, I’m looking for a not so easy model that doesn’t require an airbrush, I know that sounds crazy but I’m not good with airbrush’s lol. You do the best models and I hope you are feeling better!
Going with the French theme of this video, Takom's St. Chamond tank can be done without an airbrush. You can use grey primer as the base coat and paint the entire camouflage with brushes, that's how I painted mine in the past :)
Japanese tanks or motorized guns.have handpainted patterns. Some early war types with bright yellow squiggly lines that are fun.
I also suggest tamiya's hetzer, it has an hard edged camo scheme so painting it with brushes instead of masking should make for a nice challenge.
Also, any late war German tank with factory applied, hard-edged Ambush camouflage can be painted with brushes. It's just the base coat that's ideally sprayed because brushing the entire tank is really time consuming.
@@NightShiftScaleModels thanks for the tips🤗, I can’t wait for your next video!!!
Glad to see, that even uncle Night Shift. Gets bogged down and puts a Model Aside.
I too have a Dozen projects that I have lost the will to finish..!!
Thx for the Great video..! Gŕeat work mate.
Chees kim.😎
I'm gonna have a great evening on the couch watching this!
That's crazy. For the past couple of weeks, with all the grey, dark green and olive tanks, I was thinking that it would be nice to see something more colorful for a change. Something like a French pre-war/early-war pattern, for example. And boom, here you go.
Currently building my M4A3E8 with extra armour plates and this will make a great video to watch.
I was making an easy eight and then I kind of messed up, so I had the brilliant idea to just make a kit bash panther-Sherman cross thing, and I think it turned out pretty ok
@@gradyb9358 sounds interesting
"Ma friends" in 2160p is a great way to kick off the weekend.😎 Nice to see something different/unique. Interesting how much the camo differed from the turret & rest of the tank. Look forward to the rest of the process.
It is nice to see this positivity! Also, if you like the derpiness of more fun tanks, how about doing an Italian tankette or THE Bob Semple? :D Those rivets! Love them!
The TONK would be just amazing to see 😂
Wacky and weird - love it! The distressed decals are especially interesting to me. Good process to absorb - thanks!
Ayyy, a beautiful tank! It’s a... Somua! Amazing as usual, I love it, and as usual, I think you remember me. It’s beautiful!
Right on! My Friday is substantially improved. Thanks Uncle Nightshift!
You sound a bit better, I hope that you are😊
Nice to see a rarer subject and colour scheme 👍🏼
Hi Uncle Night Shift, that was a excellent refurbishment of a shelf queen, it transformed it completely, great work mate, I trust you and your family are keeping safe and well in this crazy world, best regards from a Kiwi living in Australia.
Very nice! I love the vivid camouflage pattern, it’s a little different from the old B1 bis!
So refreshing to see something french!
Awesome work and really looking forward to the weathering :)
Can't wait to see this finished. Nice to see something a bit different too.
Subscribed to you on a recommendation to learn about tank weathering a while ago, and this was the first video I've been able to watch. Absolutely splendid work, already learning a ton. Made my day.
What a funky cammo pattern. You did a great job on this build.
I really like the camouflage color! Great video as always!🤘
Such a happy little tank🙈
It looks awesome, seriously. I have been an aircraft modeler for 40 years and I couldn't get this on an armor model if I tried... you are selling yourself short if you aren't satisfied with this finish. This chipping method looks better because its, well real chips.
Thank you , Uncle Martin .
A Somua \o/ french camo are a pleasure to paint and look
Great work Uncle, motivation to go back to my older work and “revitalize” it… feel well!
I absolutely love the silly early French tank designs and camouflages
You couldn't even deny that they are interwar designs. Those are the ones that look like a proper tanks but not entirely.
My grand father was a somua tank commander. The 47mm was pretty effective in 1940 but the one man turret was limiting the fire rate.
@@SOMUA99 It was a great gun for it's time, but yeah the one man turret was extremely limiting.
@@SOMUA99 Sure they gave a hard time to the deutsch still until things happened, heh
Currently building my first diroama and seeing these videos help me for ideas
I’m with you on the gloss varnish before decals. Not really necessary, but I’ve had the decal solutions interact with the paint in a bad way.
Definitely a unique paint job. Looking forward to more!
Glad to see you back at the bench. Hope you're doing well. Great job on that Somua. Thanks for the video!
If you haven't tried it before, you can apply a base, then chipping fluid, one colour, then more chipping fluid, then second colour, and then chip. Essentially do it all in one step, rather than two rounds of chipping. The resulting chips will show the "middle" colour around the edges with the dark base in the middle, as you have done here with the mint showing around the edges of the dark steel chips through orange/brown camo. Hopefully I explained that well. It's much faster (well twice as fast) and this way you won't have to worry about lining up the second set of chips with the first layer of chipping. Take care!
I thought about that, but considering how unpredictable this method can get, I was worried the top layers would get obliterated by the time I’d reach the steel color 🤔
Yr videos are always fun, interesting n informative. Keep up the good work!!
Nightshift needs to step out of the box and do a ship 😂😂. Love the models and videos
Oh yes, the mater is doing a French boi! I will try to give my little 1/72 Panhard armored car one of those intricate french camos when I get to building it. Great video as always!
You can do it with paintbrushes, this was probably the most needlessly complicated approach ever :D
@@NightShiftScaleModels Specially in 1/72 scale, as do not have enough faith in my airbrushing yet to make some of the more complex shapes :)
Very nice new camouflagesheme! The chipping looks awesome. hope to see the finished model soon.
Can't believe I've missed 2 episodes! CZcams never gave any notifications so tried to uncheck notifications and back on again see it if resets! Pure gutted love this channel! I've got this kit in my stash waiting for the tracks got the aber barrel n MG n PE set and archers foundry markings for it! There's just something about the SOMUA I love! I got a free set if French camo paints from the guy in my hobby shop when bought mine because always in and spend alot so he through them in! Some strange colours the AK milky coffee etc
I really like that you tried this vivid color sceme! Its refreshing
Nice job. I suppose people have tried every form of camouflage one could imagine. It's hard to visualize what the French were replicating, and; whom they thought they were actually fooling. But, it's ideas like this instance that makes modeling interesting.
I think that the brush chipping is better than the Hair spray .You can scrub oil into the painted areas to represent wear with brush applied edges etc .
Glad to see you are on the road to recovery and we can get back to enjoying your content I really missed your regular releases my family think I'm mad when I see them and say (my friends)
Once again very impressive, great technique...Congrats from France!
I can’t believe you did this with a broken leg…Impressive!
If you want a challenge for painting. The tamiya hellcat is perfect for you. It has a full interior plus highly detailed suspension
As always, super good job! Keep making great content!
Your chipping tequniques are awesome 👏
I would love to see a disc camo sceme done in the future
Muh uncle! You did great as usual, and this time maybe even more! Camouflage is weird, I can't deny that, but this new chipping technique is just amazing and make even a weird tank in weird pastel colours to look gorgeous 🤩
As someone whos recently picked up Warhammer, seeing paint names that make sense is quite jarring.
The turret looks great! I never saw this camouflage pattern, if i didn't know i wouldn't believe this was a real color scheme used in war^^ Looking forward to seeing it getting dirrrty (Christina Aguilera voice)
I really like it I like loud bright I don't know why but that contrast looks really cool
First time commenting, I love your channel. Currently I'm building this same kit, somehow I lost one of the superior wheels, if I can't find it, I already built a "fake one" using a circular tiny piece from an 1/16 Panzer I, a bit of putty and a tiny remnant of the plastic sprue of the Somua S35 kit.
I liked the look of the model before you repainted it. But hey, it's your model and I like the fact I learned something new. And I as well do unnecessary steps. Thank you for taking the time to produce these videos!
At first I thought that your old model was on preview, but I was caught)
It will be interesting to see what such camouflage in your hands will transform into 👌
YESSSSS new video from Uncle Night Shift
Happy modelling friday!!!
It already looked very good.
Happy little -trees- camo spots
You never cease to amaze.
Very cool vid...I have so many unbuilt model kits. One day I'll have to start building.
Looks amazing!
Ah I remember seeing the Somuas in Blitkrieg 1 with a desert paint job, so cool.
that game introduced me to ww2 armor!
@@NightShiftScaleModels Right on!
Looks fantastic you should do it more that chipping! I'm learning it just now myself with white washes!
Excellent as always 🎖️
You and plazmo should get 2 snap together model sets and give yourself 1 day to assemble, paint and weather the kit and compare your different styles
I think plasmo will do crayzy about details and night shift will add tons of chipping washes and that kind of stuff. I would make a stronk tank i personally like to add tons of extra armor i did it even on my maus
@@hanssmidt12 I think that would be a really fun idea, but I agree, it would be super cool to see something like that (not a build off) but more of a laxed fun build to compare styles and techniques
@@mzihogenmiller5192 yeah are you a modeller and if Yes whet is your style
Can I be honest?, I feel like I kinda liked the captured idea for the model more, but its always nice having more content from you to watch!
The older idea was definitely more interesting, after all, everyone is building French tanks in French camouflages, but I REALLY wanted to give it a try :) The other option was FFI vehicle, but that would be another Pz Grey tank (and the figure selection for 1944 French soldiers is non-existent).
@@NightShiftScaleModels In fact if you wanted to do a FFI tank you don't need 1944 french soldiers, since FFI is literally the french resistance you would only need french resistance partisans figures, and i think there are already a few sets available
I didn't think about that! But there was another reason... the FFI Somua didn't see any action and when they captured it, there was no ammunition left for the main gun so they used it as a glorified police car in Paris, just roaming the streets, doing nothing. That made the painting and weathering possibilities kinda... limited :)
@@NightShiftScaleModels If anything it can always be a what-if scenario, you don't need to go full historical accuracy on all models, just like the t-30 one
Somebody get this man a Cameo so he can start masking on his markings so he can chip them as well.
The people demand it! Haha. I hope the leg is healing well!
UNCLE NIGHTSHIFT!!! As always, a beautiful start, my man. BTW... I thought the original was really good too
This is so uncle night shift, a t55 style somua s35👍😂
a french tank yes!
“mA frends”
Beautiful :’)
Man some of those French Camo combos were u-u-ugly! I'm sure whatever you do it'll turn out awesome as usual. Cheers!
Love how he thinks the original paint is ugly meanwhile is waaaaaaaay better than anything I'd paint in my dreams 😭
Lovely work, as always! I'm also a huge fan of simple resprays if the base paint job was decent quality.
Something tells me you're also a fan of hairspray chipping! :)
@@NightShiftScaleModels maybe… 🤣
I am most of the way through the Tamiya R35 that I had put off forever. I kinda wish I had seen this back when I started it (to the time machine!). I ended up just hand painting the camo patterns with a base coat done with the airbrush. My airbrush is a little splattery for such a small tank, so brushes it was.
That’s the best approach! I’d do it the same way if I didn’t want to try multiple layer hairspray chipping. The brush method is also really fun with these camouflages
It looks very nice, although yeah this ain't a menacing looking tank. I am going to try full hull chipping with fluid on my next armor model, because my first test subject to this method was actually 40k dreadnought, which in my opinion worked very well. Can't wait to see this tank in it's full quackness soon!
Awesome ^^ it is happy looking, indeed.
Probably your strangest and most vibrant camouflage so far, still love it though!
You know what, I'm just going to take up knitting. If my wildest dreams can't even equal "edgelord Nightshift", I'm in the wrong game.
Seriously, keep up the good work. I'll be in the corner on my rocker...
It is so good even before restorations
You lighting up my Friday :D
These French camouflages are just...
MAGNIFIQUE😕
"Embrace the imperfectness" you are like a modeling Bob Ross.
For some reason this video makes me hungry for mint chocolate chip ice cream.
Love you're content I see you on patreon 😄❤️Greetings from Germany / Italy
TFS Unc, looks cool! GB :)
I like it. I think you did well with it.
Great video!
Thank you
Getting French WW2 camo to look right is surely one of the greatest challenges a modeller can have. But I wonder if obsessing about chipping while ignoring light modulation and weathering is the way to go.
Yay finally another frenchie tank on this channel :D
Your work is always perfect excep this...Remind me Arnorld seeing for the first time the predator and his iconic phrase.
Somua S35 Mystery Machine
Such a interesting camo pattern, I really like it so far :D I going to save this look in my inspiration folder, could look cool on some of the sci-fi/dieselpunk kits i normally work on.
Oh yes, this could look awesome on something fictional!
Happy little tank :)
I used an airbrush needle to do all my chipping on a panther g