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Outstanding, love your diorama work and the story.

Great job on the panther 432 diorama

If no track hangers or broken off what’s best for for a scratch material, something from sprues ? Thanks Michael.. also thanks on how sweet hot chocolate became using eggnog, nice thought by your daughter for her dad… now in Ohio with snow, it’s been 44 years since last dealing with void, white stuff🎶✌️

From where I am sitting these Tigers look great already!

Nice work on the Tigers Michael. It's coming together beautifully. Will look forward to the next update on the pinwash and weathering 👌👌👌

Looking good Mike !

Have you ever looked at beading wire for the tow cables, or maybe that's what's on the hobbyboss tank.

Nice progress on these baby’s 🌟👍🌟

Hi Mike Real Tow cables do get kink marks that won’t straighten out until under heavy load, and will never sit straight after use as they do develop a memory. Don’t give up on your Tiger yet mate, modellers are supposed to be masters of improving their subjects 😂

Wish I'd watched this a year ago, as I did the same thing by buying a 10kg bag of air dry clay, not realizing it was in one large bag! Theoretically you can reactivate it once its dry by grinding it up, and adding water to reform the clay, don't know if it works as I haven't tried it yet.

I'm really surprised how few views this series seems to have got as it was my favorite till the Moser Karl came along. It also had an impact and sent me down a huge rabbit hole concerning the Volkswagen Beetle , the Renault 4CV and the Morris minor, trying to work out who copied who (I have a lot of love he Renault 4 CV as it was the car I spent my childhood in from the late 60's to early 70s). I also ended up with the very unsatisfactory 1/48 Tamiya type 82E, to try to scratch an itch, to solve it I ended up hunting down the Ryefield 1/35 Type 82E,which I could have got everywhere, till I wanted one. May be because of my age, and my childhood reading all the old school techniques in various modelling books from the 70's and 80's, your work speaks to me more and I can spend the last 4 days happily watching and listening to you work whilst building 1/150 structures for my urban railway and also plaining my 1/35 railway (running on HO track as it scales almost perfectly to the 600mm German Feldbahn). Thanks for all your work bring these dioramas to us.

Had to laugh at the comment that your not the type of modeler that spends a year on a diorama! How about two years then...

Hi, watched all to the end, only 4 years after it was released as I'm catching up...

crackling work Mike absolutely awsome . Iwhish you and your family a happy new year .

Another great demonstration and explanation of how you work with pigments! Nice fire damage applied on the T34 as well. Thanks for sharing Michael, take care and keep up the good work my friend!

T34 is coming along nicely, good to see someone trying to explain how to proper weather (or not weather) your vehicles! Lot's of useful info shared Michael, thanks for that, take care and keep up the good work my friend.

So manydetails to enjoy here, wonderful work...Big like and Merry Christmas!!

Hey man good to see you still working. The A10 kind of funny my nephew wanted one so he’s working away at it. Sorry to hear about your mother. Lost my mom in 2017. Again good to see you well. Merry Christmas take care.

Good day Sir. I saw your diorama featured at the 2024 model show and now I'm subscribed. I myself is a beginner model and look to you master builders for tips. I only build 1:35 scale German armor. So thank you for the tip about the spare tracks not rusted. I've seen on Tiger 331 at the tank museum that the covers for the exhausts are discolored to a purple color. Have you seen it?

Never get tired of looking and admiring your work, Michael. All the best to you and your family.

Michael, Merry Christmas to you And to your family! That Diorama is something i would never been able to do.... Huge! Beautiful! Stay safe And Merry Christmas!

Have a Merry Christmas and all the best in the New Year! 🎅 The Sevastopal dio was a huge undertaking and to see it finished must have given you a real sense of accomplishment (sad that your mom never got to see it completed, though😢) Looking forward to what the New Year brings but first I have to get caught up on the Tiger build episodes! 🤦

Merry Christmas Michael and your family

it's not so much a diorama as a panorama. "a. : an unobstructed or complete view of an area in every direction. provides a panorama of the entire bay. b. : a comprehensive presentation of a subject." Impressive undertaking, beautifully made and brilliantly shot.

Just saw this on Hamilkars video on the model show. Just brilliant work !

Looks amazing, my friend! The bigger, the more details! It will be glorious!👍👍

Informative and Inspiring. Figures are Impressive and from the video, can't see how they could be improved on. Thanks for sharing, Coen.

Great and quite in depth review on those aibrushes Michael, good to hear that you like them, that makes their purchace worthwhile! Learnt a bunch of stuff today as well! Thanks for sharing, take care and keep up the good work my friend!

Thanks for this video Mr C 😳🙄🥴 uummmmm Anita’s just blown a fuse total doolally on my ass because I chopped 6” off her wooden broom handle for a sticky holder thingy I even rounded the end and rubbed my sweaty hands over the clean wood to weather it but she still noticed so I’m in the dog house BIG TIME 😜😜😜 it’s Christmas soon so I’ll surprise her with an extra present don’t exactly think she’ll thank me for it but hey it’s the thought that counts… right 🤔😅🤪 I know… I’m a twat 🤣🤣🤣 Anyway another wonderful video 😎🤩😍 I’ve actually just got the Dragon JagdPanther G2 kit on eBay for £35 inc postage 😍😍😍 and it has metal barrel, extra PE AND a lovely set of already made up FriulModel tracks 😂😂😂 I know I’m a JAMMY GIT 😅😅😅 so basically I paid for the tracks and got everything else thrown in free 😳😳😳 I was recently looking at that ushi stuff and was writing it up in my to get modelling reminder note book and I broke my pencil 😢 whilst sharpening it I look down on my cutting mate at the pile of wood chips and there was a pile of lead dust so that pencil is now no more the dust is in an old Tamiya paint pot the wood shavings went in my pestle and mortar and ground up for scatter or leaves or whatever 🤪🤪🤪 again another huge saving for me thanks AGAIN to you 🤩🤩🤩 Best wishes to you and the family Inc Murphy 😍😍😍

Now I understand Mr C so sorry for badgering you for so long saying I can send you this that or the next thing 😔😔😔 so please don’t think I was being a twat 🥵🥵🥵 Apart from that I’m loving these videos especially this one on moss, then the bushes and what to use for the trunks and leaves etc… outbloodystanding my friend I watch these videos over and over again and sometimes I find some I’ve missed… like these… you know my memory is pants but I know I have these videos to always go back to so it’s a life line for me, my encyclopaedia of modelling how to’s 🤓🤓🤓 I don’t bother now looking for other TH-camrs as they constantly force products down my throat and I find that kind of upsetting 🥵🥵🥵 but you use natural or man made stuff that’s cheap as chips and easily available to us AND you explain EVERYTHING in such great detail I understand completely it’s just my memory lets me down so I rewatch your videos BUT that’s not boring to me or whatever as I enjoy all your videos so much that I never get bored 😊😅😜 some I know I’ve watched before but just don’t remember 🥴🙄🤪 but anyway my dear friend thanks as always for taking the time and expense, in money and time, you do make a great deal of difference to not just my modelling and I even now have some of my RC modelling friends watching your videos. Most are like me… in total awe of what you achieve for so little money 🤩🤩🤩 you take care and all the very best regards to you and your family… by the by I find it nice hearing children in the background having fun 😎🤩😍 that’s there job, to have fun and bring us happiness 😍😍😍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Well I did that but it was a completed tank fell off the bench O yes massive explosion of road wheels , gear, figures, track

Thank you fucking GOD !!!! No I’m not calling you GOD here Mr C I mean thank you for someone properly explaining weathering on WWII vehicles!!! As you know I was in the RAF and although our vehicles/aircraft where oldish… aircraft would be one to two years old but our vehicles some where years old and none of them had chips or rust on them we’d have been strung up for letting our vehicles/ aircraft look like that and I know the Germans were almost to the point of stupidity the same way ie keeping their vehicles in tip top condition. Yes the might get dirty with bombs exploding near by throwing goodness knows what into the air and landing on them 🥴🥴🥴 I worked on Harriers and we’d be in woods on exercises ( sneaky hovering bastards ) so our equipment used to get covered in all sorts of crap but a broom would soon clear off most crap so ye I heartily agree with your ideas on our modelling ideas at the moment that is to bash the living daylights out of our models 😳😳😳 I’m actually scared to show my models as I do very little damage to them, shell hits are different but rust, dents etc no because most of there vehicles were not around for that long, a year at the most in regards to armour, maybe a bit longer for trucks and half tracks etc anyway I’m waffling on so… thank you very much for explaining this FAD everyone’s going through and how wrong it is !!! Only people being impressed are the greedy bastards pumping out all the so called wonder products 🥵🥵🥵 oh and if anyone’s reading this Mr C has many how to’s on making all these wonder products for peanuts so give them a look… you’ll learn something AND save a bloody fortune… trust me I have 😁😁😁😁😁😁👍👍👍👍👍👍

sorry to hear about the figures - gutting when things like that happen. Still, doing puzzles is supposed to be good for the brain.

If there was an explosion within the tank enough to blow the turret off wouldn't there be more damage within the tank? I have a similar idea in 1/35 so this vid has been very useful, thank you

Long time follower, great series, I loved the airbrush tutorial, I would like to know more about your water fall spray booth and what you think of it? Once again thank you for sharing your knowledge. Keep it going!

ok, that's cool.

I'm with you on the over-weathering. All these obsessive chippers and rustoholics need to get a model garbage truck or a tractor so they can crap on it to their hearts content. Mind you - at the other end of the spectrum you get some very clinical types who make their models (mostly planes, I've noticed) so pristine that they just don't look real at all. That Budzijk (? literally no idea how to spell that) guy is a bit like that - he's an incredible craftsman but his models look like models. I don't understand how someone can be so brilliant when it comes to creating proper scale canopy frames, but who refuses to add the 'in scale' details you get from subtle weathering. Each to his own I suppose.

Thank you Mike for the shout out

Great topic on weathering and chipping. All of your older examples look too cool to be concerned with exacting accuracy but agree with the pursuit of historical representation. There is always a freedom with fictitious vehicle subjects. Lots of non friendly paint elements in a war zone environment that can cause chipping even in a short amount of time. I believe the current trends have been influenced by the figure painting techniques that often exaggerate paint effects that are not realistic but are more artistic. I do build some armour. A 1/35 RFM Sherman E8 with interior done as if rolled out of the factory for a test run on a dusty road. With David Parker's Super King book I have been working slowly on a 1/16 Trumpeter King Tiger. Corrected/added some of the missing detail to the kit but plan on something different. It will be built in metallics. Interior lighting with l.e d.s. With a few pieces needing made the two turret types from the kit will be interchangeable.

Hey mike another 1/16 tiger awesome..I'm currently building the 1/16Trumpeter King Tiger , its a huge beast haha..take care mate , keep modellling..

Received the Mobius 0.3 a week ago and it performs well and recommend them. First time on your channel, Michael. Like the logo. I have subscribed. I have endured/tolerated some odd comments posted on my videos. Almost all are from people that have no content on their own channel. I always reply to them respectfully. Like you I do the hobby for enjoyment and build for my own approval. It was the encouragement of UK modellers that I started posting on YT. I live in Burlington, Ontario.

oooh waterfall lol .. Looking good Mike :)

Nice work Michael. For someone who doesn't like to paint, you do a legendary job mate. Additionally, I've never seen a paint booth with a water curtain before. Does it work good?

I have all 3 model and love them.

I would like to hear about your paint booth

Great stuff Michael, I recently got both these airbrushes too, and have found them to both be excellent. The .2 is fantastic for very fine work.

Great stuff, mr c..... Love you my wee buttercup xxx

This is so awesome I love the actual picture of this so cool your an awesome modeler

FB has lost it's mind, if you "hide" something, FB takes that as a challenge and gives you three more pages on the same topic. Want lots of vegan food pages, block one.

Those are some wonderfull 3D printed parts from Ian! They spiced up the figures a lot! A good rant for FB also, really from all the people, they chose you for monster trucks. Lol, advertisement done right ahahaha! Thanks for sharing, take care and keep up the good work my friend!