I love stuff like that metal king tiger model. The man made it high quality and detailed not for profit or money but just for the sake of doing a well built model. It’s just amazing to me and becoming rarer and rarer.
I met someone who built a 1/18 model of an S 3/6 a bavarian steam locomotive (3 axles propelled, overall 6 axles); that model was amazing. He told us a friend had saved the complete set of plans that were already in the dumpster of the manufacturer of the original. He was a toolmaker, so he had the skills. He told us the only thing that was missing was the steam paths in the cylinders, no use making them, as a working model would have meant to many compromises. He told us he had spent 8,500 hours in 4 1/2 years on this model. I told him "come on, that is 2,000 hours per 8760-hour year, 6 hours/day, that is impossible, and he just said "no problem. I come home at 5 o'clock, go down into my workshop, and work til 11 pm." He needed a wife, or he would have starved to death. The details on this model were amazing. Just one: the driver and the stoker both have their own locker. Both lockers had keys that were not opening the other locker, but both opened the toolbox... But don't ask me where the model has gone to. It does not matter what is depicted, when the model is great, anything is a pleasure. Just another one for miniature ships: Google Lloyd McCaffery, what this man achieves in tiniest scales (down to 1/584) is amazing. A 5 inch long threedecker, built on frames (ca. 50), planked (ca. 50), and each plank is fastened with 2 diametral dowels on each frame...
@@sjonnieplayfull5859 Amazing wife? Hmm... Besides that modeling, he was conductor of a brass band and has a sailing yacht. Some years later, I heard he had deceased. The story was he was on his yacht and busy working at something while his wife was at the helm. She did not watch out and made a "patent gybe" (unintentional change of course so that the wind comes from the other side), the boom came over and knocked him off the boat - and he was gone. This wife got into trouble with the insurance, as there was no body found. I could somehow understand the woman if the gybe was not so unintentional... This is not spinning of yarns, that is the story how I heard it.
The whole idea of using models for identifying enemy vehicles is fascinating. So much better than the useless silhouette ones I was presented with in the late 90’s.
As a experienced model builder here in the US I'd like to say thank you for the video . We put a lot of our heart and soul into building these replicas whether it's a kit or scratch built . When I was younger I'd built several models for 14 Milatery Museum's and Hand Delivered most of them . Again.... Thank You for the recognition of us and that includes every model builder on this planet . Great Job on the Video .
I love how delicate and caring David is with every model, is it picking it up, or unwrapping it etcetera, all of it while keeping on talking and explaining
ha, that wouldn't go so well... they had the MBT-80 model just sitting in a box labeled "tank" for who knows how long until someone came looking for it... many others are still unmarked and or incorrectly labelled because nobody in the museum bothers apparently.
@@diepanzerkanone1172 that's the problem with collections sometimes. the museum has little money and no staff to go pocking round in the back rooms for stuff and so it just sits waiting its time to shine.
Thank You! Few American museums go through the extensive effort that European museums do to create and/or maintain their examples or exhibits. Thanks again for letting us know of work you do to accomplish what you do. I honestly think that the episode that showed kids running to a playful example area is the BEST! Kids smiling while they are learning can't be beat.
It's so true. If someone makes a model kit (aircraft, tank, warship) as a kid (or not), that machine will be completely recognizable for the rest of your life.
Seeing these models reminds me of an Episode of the American Antiques Roadshow, a few years ago where a gentleman had a German Tank Model of a Tiger Tank. His father served with General Patton during the war and he was part of a squad that raided and cleared a Germany Army Command Post. He found the model in a wooden box and decided to keep it. The experts on the show stated that it was a battlefield planning board model that would have represented a tank division. The box had warnings printed on it stating that it was not a toy.
Another Wonderful Video. David looking particularly dapper, I must say. 8:59 A Model Tank called "Karen". Probably too Loud & hot-headed to ever go into production, even though it demanded to "Speak to the Factory Manager"!
One thing I would love to see: a 1/48 scale model of WWI tanks by Tamiya! There are a lot of 1/48 scale WWI airplane models. A 1/48 scale tank would be an awesome comparison.
I really enjoy seeing the engineering and special presentation models. I can relate to those. As a young adult, I found occasional work building architectural concept and presentation model for several architects in my city. My father was an architect and as a child when I would visit his office, the first thing I would do is stop and look over the models in the reception area. It was fun to grow up and build models like those. I had dreams of being a modeler for Hollywood but life took me in another direction. All’s well that ends well - I’m still a modeler!
I would LOVE to see more of those unusual prototypes made in models, please give us a look there, those are things we would NEVER see as a visitor, so the youtube channel is perfect to let us see those parts of history in the development and prototype side!
I can agree that making a model of a vehicle is an excellent way to memorize its details. It doesn't just apply to military vehicles. I model trains and I've just started making a model of Susquehanna & New York Railroad 2-8-0 no. 19.
I know a guy who is building a full size replica of an M1 Abrams! It is electric. He says it's a life size RC tank without the RC. But he also reckons he knew only a little about the Abrams before he began. Now he is probably the world expert outside the tank factory. It's crazy how much he knows about it. So this video is right, making your own tank teaches you a lot about the real ones! :-D
Bit of a shame that both Covid-19 and Brexit has made it somewhat difficult to visit your museum again. I was there during my birthday week in October 2017 and I absolutely loved it. Drove all the way from my hometown in Sweden to get there and it was well worth it.
@@Masada1911 Bridge from Sweden to Denmark, tunnel from France to England. Only question is if he managed to dodge the rain once he got to the England haha.
I can see why the dazzle paint on the Mk IV female wasn't adopted. Whoever had to paint the tanks would have gone completely around the bend before they finished the first tank. Great video Tank Museum! It's always amazing what museums have in their collections that most people never see. I've been building tank models since I was 9 and I would love to visit the museum someday. I went to Aberdeen Proving Ground years ago and had to go back to the gift shop 7-8 times to buy more film.
Awesome as always Mr. Willey. It proves that The Tank Museum is in fact , the world's biggest toy store. I could spend the rest of my days going through those models, if I was left unattended.
I have watched a great deal of Tank Museum videos recently and I feel so ready to visit the Tank Museum at the first weekend we will be allowed to travel. This is yet another great video. Thanks!
I know some plastics degrade but I've never heard of models disolving before. When I was twelve I made a 1/16th Tamiya Jagdpanther, complete with electric motors and umbilical remote control, and had great fun driving it around the mud in the vegetable patch. It's still up in the loft and still perfect apart from the patina of play. It's now 51 years old.
I can relate to the idea that modelmaking improves your skill in vehicle recognition. You assemble the parts, you paint the small parts, you turn the item in your hand so often that the 3D shape gets somehow ingrained in your memory.
EXCELLENT. Especially the point of troopers learning vehicle recognition better by building a model of an enemy tank. They will gain an appreciation for the engineering of the vehicle as well with some of the more detailed kits. Of course best of all, they can blow them up with fire crackers at their PCS kegger. To difficult to ship, more fun to blow up.
It would be cool if the museum offered a workshop for kids and a parent to build tank model kits. Perhaps they could even put the finished kits on display for a week or 3 after completion? This could be really cool for the kids.
Outstanding video I really enjoyed watching this. I used to love the dioramas in model making magazines and now watching these being built on RU-vid . The museum should start to collect these once more as they are in my opinion true works of art. Also more videos on this topic please.
I really want to visit the tank museum some day, it has such a massive collection! I've been a tank enthusiast most of my life, and if its safe to do so, I will come this summer. Thanks for uploading great tank content, and keeping your tank collections in good shape
Fascinating! I cannot comment on one thing only... Thank you for letting the model making companies study your tanks! I am sure that I benefited already.
There was an attempt at recreating the "Da Vinci Tank" to see if it would have worked ... and they tested a smaller version without cannons to just prove the concept of it moving about. I can't really remember how it went, but it would be awesome to actually find this "life size model" and add it to the collection.
Greeting from USA - This was a very interesting tank chat. Thank you for the wonderful eye candy of the various models. Very entertaining. Great job David.
In New Zealand when we still had our Armoured Corps the school being in Waiouru when we had the Scorpion’s we had an indoor range for the Scorpions there was a cut down turret and the 76mm barrel had a .22 set up in it and a huge model range with small villages and tanks set up as a gunnery range
heck even this video is well made and I'm engaged from the start. Not that I look down on miniatures (make a ton myself) but I sorta expected a "see our products" but it's actually an interesting take on this sort of video.
Stunning. The dazzle camouflage on that WW1 tank would have taken half the war to paint. Thank you for a really great video. More please, show us more. Yes, I am being greedy.
The former Danish Naval Museum, today a part of the Danish Armament Museum, has a large collection of actual model ships made for the Kings approval before the built, and today a large group of builders make models asked for by the Museum.
That tank at 04:10 is amazing in real life! It's just a tiny detail in a huge museum, but you can see the craft that the young engineers used to make it so impressive.
Superb as ever David and well done to have found yet again a new, fascinating and unusual aspect of our enthusiasm. Really, really appreciated, thank you.
Fantastic video, I am so looking forward to the end of COVID so my partner and I can visit the Tank Museum, brilliant collection looked after by passionate people. Keep bringing the content out, cheers
They don't, if not mistaken. In one of Q&A session museum curator talked about it. Rubber, form back then, didn't survived. Poor storage, natural degradation, no one tried to preserve, something on those lines.
Sure wish you’d photograph and put up in your website all of your models that are recognition models. Those are fascinating to me ever since I got a set of recognition cards from WW2 ( it is a set of cards - like a deck of playing cards) Each card has a black outline of a airplane from WW2.
Oh dear....with the appearance of each and every of David Wiley and co. video I grow ever more convinced it’d best for all concerned that I NEVER set foot in this indescribably fabulous museum. The staff would have to manhandle me out, or ring up the old bill to have me ejected.
You should have a plastic model section, theyre inspiring, especially for you shop sales, sounds like storage conditions that made that happen, I only know as my friends collection, victory, srn hovercraft and many more are from the late 60s early 70s and are perfect still. Sounds like a chemical reaction with some thing, aged polymer should just fade and crack unles chemical or high heat is involved
Well this is one of my favorites so far great video Tank Museum. Funny we had a marine tanker in our IPMS club back in the 80s who later on was in Iraq both times and recounted many stories about ID'ing Soviet armor on the battlefield. I remember Wayne saying once he had an argument with one of his crew about what tank he was really seeing think it may have been at night but anyway the line that settled it was "I know what a T-55 looks like I've built the dam kit twice" haha. I have no way of knowing if he was funning us or not but it was a great story he'd told many times. He drove the Abrams in desert storm and commanded a tank battalion in OIF1. Haven't seen him around in a long while but if I do I'll try and capture his story and send it to the museum.
I am astounded by how much I like this video. So informative and so much interesting facts. The tech and knowledge behind these models is great. So if there is more to talk about, please don’t withhold.
Please could you do more videos about the recognition models. I'd really like to learn more about their production, history and the way they were used. Love your videos
the king tiger is an amazing tribute to dennis downys craftsmanship. im glad its got a good home. fascinating episode. ill have to get to work on all my little projects and clear my workbench. ive got one of those davinci tanks ive been "meaning to get to." lol.
All them models, one day i,ll get one, i missed out as a kid, then again i,ll miss out as an adult, thats why i can watch this and dream, and thats better than nothing, thank you.
The Shaw's gold plated telephone, Motorola was doing work in Iron and built a Mark 12 radiotelephone for the Shaw's limousine, but had to produce a gold plated rear control head as it was said the Shaw did not want to be touching anything that wasn't gold.
