Tamiya 1/35 Schwimmwagen Painting & Weathering Guide 

That 'Glaze' is a game changer - amazing! All my German armour in that sand colour looks so flat but now - the colour comes through! Many thanks - awesome work...

Excellent vid, I'm making the Schwimmwagen now and as a beginner (only 66) I needed a guide to painting and weathering. Thanks

Excellent as always sir! I'll watch any modelling video you post no matter the subject, nice to see something a bit different too. Thanks as always for sharing

Great job, Shane. Your tutorials/videos are packed with visual details and supported by the excellent information you provide via the commentary. Your work is spot on and a real pleasure to watch. I always look forward to seeing what you come up with next. Congrats again!

Beautifully painted and weathered Shane, always appreciate your videos.

Your work makes a simple and inexpensive model subject look great

Thanks for this video, it was really eye-pleasing! Tamiya Schwimmwagen is still the best on the market and you really took it to the next level. If only Tamiya would make one in 1/16 scale.

Super cool.....thx for the wheatering tips.....learned so much from this video..thank you

Excellent tutorial Shane don’t care if it was on for an hour ! Brilliant work lad! 👌

Excellent tutorial! I like how you demonstrate each technique and explain how you execute it. A bit long perhaps but very thorough. Thanks!

Really awesome work Shane! I think this is your best piece yet. Your weathering and details look spot on and I was very impressed with your woodwork, those oars look real. I really enjoyed this one. KUTGW!!

Another great video of a really interesting vehicle. But, can you imagine having to paddle one of those things!? Excellent work!

Enjoyed watching the phases. Great work as always Shane.

fantastic tutorial...I really like your builds mate....😊

Brilliant work, awesome weathering!

Fantastic video. Good primer for the Tamiya Citroen I'm about to start.

Great to see a vid from you Shane. Enjoyable tutorial as always mate

Great work on an outstanding piece of warmaschine !

Very enjoyable Shane with a great outcome. I am just starting on oils so this will help. Thanks

Lovely demonstration - I really enjoyed it, thanks. Great result too.

Yet another homerun🤘🏼 Very beautiful indeed.

The subject and the paint job looks great.

Another great one! Always a great help for me! Thanks Shane!!

Nice work and very inspiring. Who needs decals? Greetings from Canada 🇨🇦.

Very well done. Clear and concise

Good work! Thank you for this video

Awesome Jon Shane! Thanks very much for doing this.

More great work Shane. I built this about 40 years ago 😆

Pleasant to watch and excellent result! You have done an amazing job here and showed us your procedure and ideas for a small model like the Schwimmwagen. Keep doing that bud :)

Made a brilliant job of that Shane!

Love this video Shane! Thank you so much!

I love your videos because not all modelers put all the steps and skip some like the varnish application. When you varnish at the end in matt, the metal parts like the steering wheel I see that they are shiny or satin, it has stayed that way or you have retouched the metal. Thank you.

Excellent as normal Shane beautifully done

Great finish, painting top notch !!!

An excellent tutorial on prep along with weathering

Lovely job mate. Thanks for sharing.

Great work !

Top Class...Really enjoyed another marvellous and very informative presentation Shane 👍

Love the videos man! You've helped me grow as a painter, and I thank you greatly for it :D

Another great video, thank you.

A beautiful result Shane! I am building this model now, and I really appreciated this tutorial. I will try my best to replicate your results, although my shaky old hands have a lot of trouble with the fine detail painting work. If it ends up half as good I will be happy. Cheers from Australia!

Subscribed. Really good and informative

Yes, a long video - but thoroughly enjoyable

Great vid, learnd a lot from it!

always enjoy your videos, and this one is no exception, thanks :)

Once again stellar workmanship with both the model and the video presentation. On a side note...BOUT TIME you did a Volkswagen! (lol) Maybe a Kubelwagen down the road (yes pun intended) Awesome job Shane!

Very nice job it turned out really good thanks so much for the video

Fantastic!

Hi Shane ... thank you for this excellent video :-) ... the Schwimmwagen looks amazing ... cheers Make*

nice video Shane. Very learn full mate . Keep on the good work

Great work

The dog's bollocks as usual Shane you know how much I like your work take care my friend 👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🐑😁✌

Great to see a video from you brother. Hope your well matey and the family? Brill video mate. Stay safe

Congratulations.Its amazing.i really love it.I just suscribed now.

good job and thank you for sharing. i started using black panel line wash to go around the rims builds a neutral zone, my hand shakes to much, and failing site with poor lighting.

Great Video Shane!!!! Well done !! Good description about sub-asslemblies!!

EXCELLENT JOB, Shane! I found this to be extremely informative and instructional. I hope you will do more, similar projects in future videos.

Nice video.

Great vid fella 👍🏻

It's a Great Job...

Really hoop to see more off your builds big like and I definitely gone follow you

Magnifique 👍👍👍👍

Absolutely beautiful model, everyone of these minutes are worth watching, I do have to ask, what do you use for the pine branches?

Hi Shane, nice Schwimmwagen. But From the whole, best is branches ;)

From my perspective, chipping should be made only with a dark colour, since these vehicles were often painted over a previous Dulkengrau color.....good vid!

Just subscribed 👍🇬🇧

nice

1:56 Tamiya XF-60 DARK YELLOW

Hi Shane great video where can I buy some of the foliage you used

Dunkelgelb is a hard colour to pull off but you did well. Have you tried the newer Tamiya XF 88 Dark Yellow 2?

Hi, Shane. Watching your old vids while waiting for the next Panther instalment! 😊 Just wondering, where do you get your artists white spirit? I'm Ireland based as well so will try get some of the same stuff, if I can. It looks the biz. Cheers, bud 👍🏻

I definitely recommend people DO prime now after not using primer I have noticed alot of my builds are going so brittle if handled or moved around, especially my new trumpeter Brem 1 kit waw ! The acrylics had really doing a number on the plastic without primer! So just to make people aware like myself not thinking water bassed acrylics would do anything to the properties of the plastics I was very much mistaken! I'm honestly stumped so shocked at this Brem 1 the meng bergepanther and the new line of hobby bosses ex tristar panzer with vallejo acrylics 3 that are not primer are now brittle just after 5 months on the shelf! The other 15 that are primed from same manufacturers are perfect still as strong as day one! If you have ever built the older mini art kits with the white boxes and just box art in the middle you'll know what kind of way the plastic goes! There older kits at 5 years are so bad now there plastic goes brittle after 5 years try the GAZ trucks seriously I had to scratch build alot of parts that crumbled away into many parts in the hand! I think that's how Tamyia lasted so long with older kits there plastics! Not being the best of detailed kits but there plastic is still like it was made yesterday on a 1970s kit Amazing! Hurts to say as not a fan of them but truth hurts haha! So 2 tips I can leave to fellow builder's from myself is always prime if you want your kits to hold up and avoid any mini art kits that have the white boxes and just box are in middle! There the old ones with bad plastics the new full box art are superb though big changes have been made !

What do you do to keep the Tamiya paint bottle caps from hardening on so hard you need pliers to remove them?

Coild you elaborate a bit on the wood tools painting?

Great tutorial! I wanted to ask you, if dont bother, what color did you use for the metal part of the shovel? I've tried Tamiya's metallic grey (XF 56) but it seems a bit light to me. Maybe too bright. Regards and congratulations;)

Hello, what have you used to paint the oar? .... great job

how did you make / what manufacturer are those spruce branches?

Shane: your accent Scottish or English? it's very soothing.

Nice result. One question though, why do you not paint small parts which require different colours before gluing them (e.g. shovel, exhaust, oars...). I have the feeling it would be much easier and less time consuming.

Just one little help...you painted only two pedals: clutch and brake, forgot for the third one, the accelerator. Europe cars have always 3 pedals.

Looks like it’s been through a car wash and had a valet gold service

Interesting weathering, but the paint job is messy and quite careless. Painting all those additional elements altogether with the car body, instead of separately (i.e: the shovel and the paddle) and you're not even using any masking tape. And at the end you put some "camouflage rubbish" to mask the painting bugs...