Building the Academy Models M60 A2 Starship including painting and weathering 

Andy, great job on the M60. I've got a large stash of 1/35 model AFVs. I've been off work for 2yrs.with a diabetic related medical condition, I've been in and out of depression. Once I found your RU-vid site, I've been inspired to get stuck into some model building. Thanks. mate.

A Friend 1 day ago Greetings from Somerset, MA. I just recently found you on you tube creating World War II material and others. I just finished watching your work on the Patton Tank, Fabulous, lost for words, outstanding are you getting the point here! Man, you are good, no no no you're good. We will probably never meet but that's okay we will in spirit. So you know, I have stage 4 lung cancer and everyday is a blessing for me. My doctors told me to stay busy keep my brain occupied. You are my inspiration! You're the man I turn to when I'm down. Guess what I do when I'm down in the dumps. YEAH...… I'm a tank modeler now. I slowly getting my stuff and putting little pieces of plastic together and at the end, I created something beautiful. Thanks to you my friend.....God Bless...

I think you did an awesome job and the technique with the tarps over the bustle racks is a great idea. One in the snowy environment you would have tarps over it to keep Snow from getting down inside your personal gear food and spare fuel. Keep the videos coming.

Thanks for your good taste in music. Makes These much more enjoyable than the junk played on other channels

Academy Models look like quality products. I usually swear by Tamiya products, but I am going to give Academy a try. Another great video!

I play this tank in Armored Warfare MMO and it is great to see the tank in a more 'real' manner. I love the way your little spots of weathering end up looking so realistic. Thanks for showing the details and sharing your passion for the hobby.

Thank you, Andy. Nice video as always. Because of you, I bought a new model to build, an Italeri Patton M47 (my father started his military career with that tank in the French Army). Can't wait to build it and apply some of the technics you show us ! Greetings from France !

It probably been 15 years since I've built a model. But since I stumbled across this channel a week or so ago I've really felt inspired to get back at it. Thanks Andy!

I'm 69 Andy ...have not built Models since I went into the Air Force at 18 !! Have started back because of you and a few other sites. I'm on the Nimitz now...one of four so far. BUT I went back to my Parents basement where I STILL have a bunch of them still on shelves. Brought back 4 ships and 2 armor models and cleaned and restored them after 58 years !! I restored a M-4 Sherman that was tooled in 1960. love the Hobby.

Thank to you Andy, i build my self an Hobby Boss Tiger tank 1/16th scale in 2 days! time to paint and weather it when i got the time, your video's really help me a lot to get better at paining my models! Keep the amazing work up! Kind regards from the Netherlands

Superb job on the A2, I built the Tamiya version way back in the early '80's. Keep up the great work, cheers.

The finish on this one looks great, Andy! You're definitely teaching this old dog some new tricks! Thanks for sharing!

I built this model way back in 1984. Gone now to the sands of time.

The rust effect makes the kit look die-cast Its beautiful, well done!!!

Thank you Andy, you did a vary great job !

Great job ! Love the weathering.

Great job as always! The tropics-verdant looks like a really cool camo scheme, I'd love to see a vehicle in it!

Buen video, muchas gracias desde Argentina!

That is a nice kit, Great job on too! Looks pretty good, looks like the real thing! 👍👍

Good to see your fantastic builds, they are all inspiring! Cheers from Tucson.

keep up the good work sir I'm enjoying each and everyone of these builds!

Thanks for another cool video Andy. Always fun to follow along.

Andy, thanks for the warning concerning the turretbaskets.

Excellent job as usual Andy!

Great build, Andy. I'm very much enjoying seeing all these modern or late Cold War builds :D

Damn Andy, that looks stellar!

Hey Andy. Greeting from New Zealand. Just wanted to say how much I've enjoyed and learnt from your videos! Thank you and keep up the great work : )

Another great looking build mate. Nice choice of camouflage as well. I also really like the chipping and rusting you've done on this one. Looks very effective. I feel your pain about the trouble assembling the turret baskets. Sometimes I found that no matter what I do, nothing goes right and can be frustrating as hell. When this happens I find it best just to walk away and come back to it with a fresh and more calm attitude rather than try to push on with it.

Awesome video as always Andy, thanks again as always! :)

Doing models since i was 10 12 years old. At 63 im still doing ot and im still doing it. I still love. It today but. Today i dont know they make better. To date 😀😀😀🎁🎁

Great result Andy!

The tarps look great .

Andy!!!! What an EPIC paint job you have done! The weathering is awesome! Great job!!! I have been inside of a Starship's turret before.... roomy! This tank had the potential to be very devastating with its 152mm gun that also had the MGM-51 Shillelagh anti-tank missile system. But sadly this tank did not live up to expectations and the whole program was ditched, but not before a few where made.

Fantastic work and a great conversation starter.

Love the rust effects.

I think the tarp works really well !!

The music is so relaxing😃

wow andy she looks awesome way to think out of the box I like doing the same keep them coming

For the storage racks or any hand rails you should use the wire they use in the jewellery craft, you can get it from sizes 0.1mm up to 2mm, it is much cheaper than brass rod or copper and its strong and takes paint well. Just a thought because I find they break when you take them off the sprue more often than not. Thanks for the videos, taught me loads.

Hello, my name is Valter Andrade, I live in Jaboatão city in the northeast of Brazil on the coast. I accompany your videos, and I like the fast and simple way in the assemblies of the vehicles. Congratulations for the initiative.

keep posting ! wounderfoul job !

Nice one again Andy love it and the Humvee you did recently too. The Us Forest green is a nice colour as substitution for the olive drab i think i, 'm gonna use it at my Afv Club Ypr 765.

Great vid and model!

Another great model Andy, great job and I'm sure someone somewhere put a tarp on those racks lol, they can be quite a pain on some tanks. Keep up the great work.

great work.i dont build army kits. might try now after watching your builds.

beatifal modern tank like him a lot!;)

Great job Andy

I like your models and the easy way of airbrushing acrylics either Tamiya ou Vallejo. When a brush painted, kit as a challenge, at least a 1/72 kit.

Another excellent build. The rust looks great! While I don't mind seeing a new looking vehicle, having one beaten up a bit every once in a while is a good change. PS - don't mind the nay sayers. Build and paint it the way you want. We're behind you. ;)

Great work as usual! :)

awesome stuff andy

Great work... cool subject!

nice model, In the army I had a model of a M60-A2,M60-A1, M-1 Abrams on a table in my room. being a tanker when we had inspections the to Sgts always talked about the tanks and shared stories about them. They never really inspected my room. shipping them home from Ft Hood they got broke up.

Like your tube and the best scale models keep on man grt from holland ninja rubdup 🙌 👍

Oh, thank you for reviewing academy kits!!! ( I love academy not because the company is Korea..but just my company is near by academy company..

Tanks that are actually in service almost never have rust on them. even the track will only have rust on it if the vehicle that hasn't moved for weeks. Tracks of a tank in muddy condition will have a fine even coat of mud looking just like lumpy gloss paint dependent of course on the consistency of the mud. Tracks Of Tanks operating in snowy conditions will be spotless rubber, paint and bare metal scrubbed clean by the snow and ice. I had a lot of fun driving an M60A1 in the snow (Picture of a 57 ton 750 horsepower snowmobile)

Excellent work as always. Perhaps for your next build you might do Tamiya's M-40 self-propelled gun.

muito show, meu sonho é conhecer uma loja assim

The work on the tracks was simply fantastic, this tank had a sort of sci-fi wibe on it, such as from a WH40K novel, ironically this version was reputed a waste of public's money. Also the camo scheme is intriguing, different from the classic ones

Well done it is sick

Nice build. Thanks for building Academy model. And you should build Academy's K1A2 korean tank.

The storage racks looked great tarp or no tarp :)

great job

Hy Andy, great job! Fantasic work! Work only at night, and in the morning I am always happy when you have new vids. Always new ideas for me. Your shop must be great (background), but from Upper-Frankonia/Czech Border (Bavaria) it is too far for me. Keep it up Rainer

This kit looks like they got their hands on a Tamiya M60A2 kit and made their own molds using Tamiyas sprue designs as a starting point. The hull deck piece is exactly like a Tamiya patton.

Awesomeness

nice model 👍

When I was posted at Ft.Hood,TX. I worked on the last battalion of M60-2. What a POS of a tank. The turret components constantly broke down. The circuit boards for the fire control system were not shock mounted so when firing the main gun or even just driving it over ruff terrain the vibration would disable the electronic. It fired two different rounds. One was a guided missile rocket propelled which depended on the fragile electronics, and The second round was a charge bag high explosive much like an artillery. With two completely different types of main gun rounds it made for a lagistcal problem supply the tank. The main guns breach was a electric motor driven interrupted thread type that was know to not completely sealed when closed and when fired the hot gas would escape and burn the crew if not kill. The vertical slab side of the turret was the perfect surface for a enemy tank round to penetrate. It was always a joke to drive the tank onto a HET, carefully transport it to the top a mountain and park there and hopefully it doesn't need to fired more than a couple times. Chrysler should of hung it's head in shame for this crew killer. This tank was decommissioned in the time I at Ft.Hood and they were replaced with the M60-A3 which was an updated version of the original M60.

Very nice Andy

Very cool model

Nice model.

The rust effect looks just like real rust. I would cut small pieces of paper towels then paint them brown or OD. When paint dried I'd carefully roll them up as one would do with an actual tarp. Wrap brown thread near ends and toss up on fenders near engine vents or hang off turret. Sometimes to cover imperfections or the occasional booboo. The last thing I want is for armor to appear it just came from the factory.

Yes, nice kit. However, the only time I'd seen a tank that distressed was when it was on the back of a transporter on its way to the scrapyard after spending 45 years in a field in France!

Seriously...who dislikes these videos?!!?!?! Some people don't know a good thing when they see it!

the discs in the center of the sprocket are not just spacers they guide the track with the center guides helping to keep it from coming off the sprockets

Hi I loved the build you did with this one. After watching the vid I found the Tamiya version of this tank model on eBay bought it asap

Great job! Now try Esci 1/72 scale one.

What are you using to seal in your paint before you add your grime?

Hi, I know this is an old post, I crew the M60A2 from 76 to 79 with the 1/37 Armor Katterbach Germany, I see that the kit came with the old track Style, and yes you are right, we did not trap over the smoke grenades, if we did any tarping it would be at the rear of the bustle racks. As for camouflage I only seen one battalion that did that, but it was only summer camouflage most of our tanks were just OD Green, for winner we might Splash on some white wash out.

Great content and will start building after 35 years away from the hobby. Have you built a universal carrier as I am mad for them. thanks Andy from the UK.

Very nice model as always Andy. It sure is a wierd looking tank to say the least. Have you ever concidered building some Swedish vehicles? Like an S-tank or a CV9040. I think they would look really good in your cabinet and would sure raise a few eyebrows ans they are not the most common tanks to build as a modelkit. Thanks for all the good videos.

great thnx :)

Looks exactly like the tamiya kit

the inside of the sprockets and road wheels where the Centre guide teeth wear against them should be bright silver as well as the Centre guide teeth

Cant wait to watch! one quick question though. have you through about building any dragon kits?

Hi Andy, yet again, you have built another great model/kit. Is the M60A2 and new release kit or is it a re-hash of a couple of different kit? as I see the hull still has 'holes' for motorised kit. Happy modelling and have a great Christmas and a great New Year. Les

I built the M60A2 by Tamiya back when I was in high school. Still have it and as I remember, the racks were a bitch on that kit.

Never had anything other than revell but I'm thinking of using other brands

Oh yes my Wife is trying to preemptively discourage me because I've been watching these videos of yours and I'm eyeing a lot of these Models you are putting together and I haven't put one together in a very long time but some of these that I watch you Model I want badly but are a bit cost prohibitive and my wife points out "You already have enough Hobbies already". My retort is "You can never have too much fun when you are retired" :) Soon I will strike and buy one!

Do you prefer the vallejo paint to tamiya?

Its going to be alot easier to simply make those bars for racks, out of brass/metal wires. Will look much nicer at the end too, more strength

Great looking camo. Very unique. However you missed one area. The rear exhaust grills. On every M60 I have seen they are pretty much pitch black. Those things put out a ton of crap when they start up/move around.

I got the old Tamiya kit of this tooling look all most identical

Very odd looking tank. Thanks for sharing

Looks great do a big ww1 diorama

enjoy your videos I see you do more tanks are you going to do any aircraft soon? getting back into modeling because of my kids your tutorials have given me a wealth of knowledge that i didn't have years ago.

Andy, do you thin the Vallejo paints for airbrushing? If yes, even the Vallejo Air paints?

What kind of thinner do you use?

What did you use for the tarps

12:39 Just asking, isn't the tarp blocking the smoke grenade dispenser?