After returning back to the hobby of moderling, of 35 years,my main interest is armoured vehicles,mainly tanks,from old to new,the age of the tank has not gone yet,kit reviews,model builds,and live gaming, please like and subscribe.
4:19 The Belgian army used the M109A2 as an artillery piece, it certainly wasn't a tank destroyer. Its original colour was a greyish olive green, without camouflage.
Hi. These are all re-pops of much older kits. Some ( M109) go back to the late 70's early 80's. The British version was called the Palladin and then the Abbott. They are still in service. And yes they did serve in Vietnam with the U.S. forces. All of these kits have been upgraded with new tracks , etch, and a metal barrel. They might not be the best kits of these vehicles but for their money they are still good value. I hope you enjoy building them . Regards.
Thanks for the info brian,yes for the price,there ok,there is better versions on the market,as thay say you only get what you pay for,I actually prefer tamiya,but iterleri ok,nearly as old as tamiya.
@@Kitsnbits It wasn't equipped for short range combat. Neither did the crews ever receive training for tank or tank destroyer combat. The M109A2 gun had a range of 18 km (further with "favourable" winds) and training was all about precise shooting at that distance. In the 1980s the only fire calculating device used by the Belgian army was a handheld modified scientific calculator produced by Texas Instruments. No wonder live fire was only allowed in one location in Belgium, Elsenborn, where they didn't risk hitting anything that wasn't a target.
Do you build any of these kits? Everything I have taken a brief look at, except the comparison views in German Field Guns of Sept. 16th which I watched more than half of are just you showing what the unbuilt models still in the cellophane wraps, and instructions and not build photos. I wonder is this a review channel only? No disrespect intended, mate.
Thanks for watching, yes I do build ,the kits I review, when I get round to it as sometimes normal day life things need doing to,I have put build kits on my channel as shorts.
@@Kitsnbits I got started when an Art professor in the small town university with no hobby store asked me to get a specific model when I went home for the weekend. It was that Tamiya Hanomag that is in your video. I saw it at the story and became curious so I bought one for myself, too. That got me hooked. In my career as a cartoonist I had to come up with three cartoons a week, and each one had to be a new idea and the act of finding a subject and then drawing the idea out, and then going back and doing a pen and ink drawing. It was often quite stressful. So when I finished I would get a kit out and build it. It was relaxing and nice to follow a set of instructions that laid out the entire process, rather than what I had been doing. And I decided in about '88 to not just buy a kit to build then, but to buy something I could put aside for my retirement. Retirement did not come until 2010 so I have a huge stash and I'm still buying kits. So occassionally I got into the old stash to pick out a kit that has been in the stash for decades. I also bought the after market parts for those kits at the same time so that even an old kit will look detailed and competitive with what is on the market today.
I wish bandai started releasing their own line of military kits. I dont have as much space of kit to properly paint my models so this why I have yet to build any tamiya kits.
Good video!!! Have built the A5 version of this kit - was fun. Too bad Tamiya did not release a kit of the actual A7V during the WW1 anniversary years - thought they would and that it was a missed opportunity.
Yes it is that,as far as I know,it's the dearest on the market of the loapard 2,at the moment,but is the latest version thank you mr andy,hope you have subscribe lol
I have quite a few bike kits in 1/35 including some allied kits.I am shure none will be as difficult as the Bronco allied bikes.Never a more fiddly kit have i built.I will give you a shout-out in my next video.
I have it in mind that somewhere in the depths of my stash i have this kit.Always nice when a manufacturer gives far more than you need not only for reasons of choice but for the spares box.
@@Kitsnbits Yes me too and i guess we do it because we can incase money is short.Another reason being some kits have a short production run so we get them whilst available.At the end of the day life is short so what the hell.
