When I was a kid, I was a competitive IPMS builder. After I joined the military, all my displays were broken in moves and then as I got older, my eyes got worse and my motivation declined. After twenty years of modeling intermission, I recently started again thanks to you. You motivated me to take up the hobby again. Thank you.
My wifes grandfather was with an anti-tank company in the 85th Division in Italy. There are pictures in his album of these that were abandoned by the Germans who used them to guard airfields.
Did you know that the 'dome' on the turret actually had a slot or clasp that the commander plug his helmet in and turn it with his head to use the sight for the cupola
Hello Andy, I just finished my own R35 tank. Build was easy. Paint was a big challenge. Thanks for the painting advice. Paint pen worked fantastically. I did the 5 color le baffle version.
Great subject, funny though the French spent all that time and effort on the camo and then painted bullseye targets all over them. Thanks Andy handy tip the paint pen.
ohh congratulations Andy!!! really I loved the way you Painted it and how you did it, actually now I am finishing the Tamiya's Char B1 Bis and truly looking forward to the Somua and next this H35 Hotchkiss in order to increase WWII french tank collection, grettings from Mexico and keep up the great work.
Tamiya producing some great kits these last several years and this is kit is no exeception . What is both enjoyable and challenging is painting and weathering early WW2 French tanks , using both airbrush and paint brush . Plenty of reference material out there too. Looking forward when my kit is in stock and arrives on my work bench.
Dear Andy , thanks for this video , I would just like to mention that last year I was watching this series on Netflix called World War Two in colour , and it had some coloured footage of French tanks being assembled and painted , they airbrushed the black lines first and then fill in later . Nice video
Fun fact, Poland ordered and received a batch of R35 tanks, they kept their french camo when the war started. Some of the polish r35 were captured by soviets, and one survived in kubinka museum
The Tamiya extra thin cement works great for gluing those individual track links together. I was using regular model cement and end up gluing the track links to the tweezers. I use a spare computer fan to blow the fumes of the Tamiya thin cement away
Given the specs of this tank, the French could have made a pink Hello Kitty version of it and no one would have bothered. However you're right... it's a cute little tank!
Great video!!!! Definitely will get this kit of the R35 tank from Tamiya. Have attempted this same vehicle from other manufacturers and would always end in failure. With Tamiya precision engineering, should FINALLY have a kit of this vehicle completed. Also, love the French camo patterns, have done that on the Char B1 bis and S35 tanks - looks great.
I Like how it has that “old style” Tamiya artwork back, Just like the new KV-1 kit. Kit looks Great And eminently buildable. My Only regret is it not having the earlier round episcopes as an option.
I believe the factories initially painted the tanks before issuing them to the troops. Some of the factories came up with some very gaudy and exotic color schemes. Anyway, eventually they moved to a more basic three tone simplified style later on. If memory serves me correctly.
I just finished this tank. Wonderful fit. But I must has done something wrong because I did do the track similar to you, but I had a lot more trouble with getting them to fit. Also, word to the wise: the fit is actually so tight on this, priming your parts ahead of time will cause them not to fit right. I did that and my commander's cupola literally wouldn't pop in and turn. Great kit all the same.
Keep em coming Andy!!! Love your videos!! Your energy is truly marvelous!! You make these and have so much fun!!!! Dont know why everyone is not building models of every kind!! Truly inspirational . Andy could you please build a new Sherman? RFM HVSS M4A3E8 or Meng New Sherman . Cool stuff Andy!!
I am building the Tamiya M4 Easy Eight tank and this is my first attempt at armor, the question I have is about the linked-in tracks .Are they difficult to put together? The Sherman has the rubber tracks.
Great video, thanks for sharing and exposing about our hobby and great idea that of Tamiya san. I only hope that it will circulate many more French and British cars such as a Matilda I, another Matilda II B.E.F, a new Crusader I, II and III ... Thank you for sharing this video and its channel, like nº 581 and greetings.
Interesting vehicle, first line french but 2nd or 3rd rate when captured by Germany. I wonder if the reason the museum tanks and color pictures show them as having a gloss paint is that they were waxed? If I remember at that time the french were into neat and shiny equipment.
Normally retail price on tamiya kits are the blue number on the side of the box. Is in ¥ just change it to usd and boom full retail price. This is what I was told in the store a few years ago.
Andy you would try to find the 1:1 scale model of an 88mm shell. I saw a video from a Japanese model show but could not find any other information. It would look great in your store.
You said in this video that you have several ammunition examples. You need to make a video of the real ammunition next to the scale model. I think that would be cool!
Do you use additional ventilation with your plastic glue? I often find myself gluing outside (waiting for a pleasant day) and eventually bought a solvent mask. 🥴
Another great model, Andy! I was thinking of painting the model overall black first (when it comes out of course), and then using a thin string of Silly Putty to mask the the black on the camouflage. Think that will work or is the model to small for that? As well, do you ever use a paint brush for overall painting (i.e. tires) or are you strictly an "airbrush man" for painting?
Just finished the tracks only to discover each side was too short by a single tread. For the life of me I cannot figure where I went wrong; there's no slack in the other links that would allow for the ends not to match up. (Maybe I'm just losing it.) Be nice if Tamiya would include a few extra track links to help in circumstances like this, as well those inevitable times when a single link goes flying off the tweezers never to be seen again.
Thanks For Sharing This Build and Your Skills to Do New Paint Schemes. I Knew You Were Going to Use a Thin Line Paint Pen Tho, Cause I Would've 😉😉😉,, God Bless All.
Andy, When you offer this kit for sale on your online store, it would be nice if you could sell the Gundam marker you used for the lines on the camouflage markings and maybe indicate the Gundam marker as a suggested accessory for helping to complete the kit.
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When I was a kid, I was a competitive IPMS builder. After I joined the military, all my displays were broken in moves and then as I got older, my eyes got worse and my motivation declined. After twenty years of modeling intermission, I recently started again thanks to you. You motivated me to take up the hobby again. Thank you.
me too !
My wifes grandfather was with an anti-tank company in the 85th Division in Italy. There are pictures in his album of these that were abandoned by the Germans who used them to guard airfields.
"It came out ok"?! My man man you did a spectacular job.
Did you know that the 'dome' on the turret actually had a slot or clasp that the commander plug his helmet in and turn it with his head to use the sight for the cupola
That's pretty cool!
DARKNUT 96 woah 🤯 that’s neat!
Woah 😁
I know what to try out in the next Saumur museum visit... ;)
The only problem was that the commander would get rsi in the neck, you can find info on this on the WoT YT channel under the chieftain s hatch
Hello Andy, I just finished my own R35 tank. Build was easy. Paint was a big challenge. Thanks for the painting advice. Paint pen worked fantastically. I did the 5 color le baffle version.
Great subject, funny though the French spent all that time and effort on the camo and then painted bullseye targets all over them. Thanks Andy handy tip the paint pen.
Tamiya has such great engineering
ohh congratulations Andy!!! really I loved the way you Painted it and how you did it, actually now I am finishing the Tamiya's Char B1 Bis and truly looking forward to the Somua and next this H35 Hotchkiss in order to increase WWII french tank collection, grettings from Mexico and keep up the great work.
Polish army in 1939 had around 50 R-35 tanks so it can be easly painted as a Polish variant. Especially that version is unique.
Tamiya producing some great kits these last several years and this is kit is no exeception . What is both enjoyable and challenging is painting and weathering early WW2 French tanks , using both airbrush and paint brush . Plenty of reference material out there too. Looking forward when my kit is in stock and arrives on my work bench.
Dear Andy , thanks for this video , I would just like to mention that last year I was watching this series on Netflix called World War Two in colour , and it had some coloured footage of French tanks being assembled and painted , they airbrushed the black lines first and then fill in later
. Nice video
Fun fact, Poland ordered and received a batch of R35 tanks, they kept their french camo when the war started. Some of the polish r35 were captured by soviets, and one survived in kubinka museum
Nice build - the camo pattern looks great.
The Tamiya extra thin cement works great for gluing those individual track links together. I was using regular model cement and end up gluing the track links to the tweezers. I use a spare computer fan to blow the fumes of the Tamiya thin cement away
I cant wait to see if this ever ends up in my stash. I'm happy you are making builds again, and I hope to see you in the next ones comment section!
This is the cutest tank in history, which is a stark contrary to the fact that it was a DEATH MACHINE.
matt mckean lol the renualt ue with a canon on it
I'd say the contest for Cutest Tank has many contenders, but I get the meaning ;) .
Given the specs of this tank, the French could have made a pink Hello Kitty version of it and no one would have bothered. However you're right... it's a cute little tank!
Great video!!!! Definitely will get this kit of the R35 tank from Tamiya. Have attempted this same vehicle from other manufacturers and would always end in failure. With Tamiya precision engineering, should FINALLY have a kit of this vehicle completed. Also, love the French camo patterns, have done that on the Char B1 bis and S35 tanks - looks great.
I Like how it has that “old style” Tamiya artwork back, Just like the new KV-1 kit. Kit looks Great And eminently buildable. My Only regret is it not having the earlier round episcopes as an option.
Definitly need to move from Boston to Phoenix for buying some stuffs in this awesome store !! Thanks Andy for your reviews .
Unusual and interesting subject. I like it.
Too cool. Very nice R35 kit and awesome job assembling.
Great paint work! I was scheptical of the method but you knocked it out of the park.
Very nice subject and build!
That French camo from the late 30's is fun lol. I built the Tamiya Char B1 Bis last year, came out beautiful. I used Silly Putty to mask it.
When I watch Andy's videos I turn the sound down and play Led Zeppelin.
As Always, a beautiful job.
Oh boy, cant wait to get hold of 1 of these to build up!
As always , great job !
Will you build New Tamiya kit KV-1 model 1941 Early production?
I believe the factories initially painted the tanks before issuing them to the troops. Some of the factories came up with some very gaudy and exotic color schemes. Anyway, eventually they moved to a more basic three tone simplified style later on. If memory serves me correctly.
I just finished this tank. Wonderful fit. But I must has done something wrong because I did do the track similar to you, but I had a lot more trouble with getting them to fit. Also, word to the wise: the fit is actually so tight on this, priming your parts ahead of time will cause them not to fit right. I did that and my commander's cupola literally wouldn't pop in and turn. Great kit all the same.
Nice videos, I build a bunch of models myself, it’s a great hobbie
I’m so exited for this kit!!
Keep em coming Andy!!!
Love your videos!!
Your energy is truly marvelous!!
You make these and have so much fun!!!!
Dont know why everyone is not building models of every kind!!
Truly inspirational .
Andy could you please build a new Sherman? RFM HVSS M4A3E8
or Meng New Sherman .
Cool stuff Andy!!
Nice build. One man turret. In combat this tank was a death trap.
Finally something "out of the box" nice. I got Tamiya's Somua S35 WIP for like a year might finish it and then add that we fella.
Really cute little model!
I am building the Tamiya M4 Easy Eight tank and this is my first attempt at armor, the question I have is about the linked-in tracks .Are they difficult to put together? The Sherman has the rubber tracks.
Wounderful, nice video. 👍
What a great looking kit great work on the camouflage Andy can't wait to build this one Steve 🇬🇧
TANK you very much, Andy.
Nice video, great kit.
Andy, I noticed you still have the 23ml paint pots, we can only get the 10 ml in Australia, they are a waste of money not enough paint in them.
Def ordering one to add to my stash. Cool kit.
Dude that turned out really cool!!
is there any rubber tracks when we buy that R35 kit?
Great job andy
I really need to get this kit at some point
good to see something from Bandai , kinda. congrats on new store and web store.
are the polycaps for the drive sprocket (7:18) not made redundant by the locking piece?
Tamiya paint must have changed over the years, it was always pretty easy to brush paint with it when I was using it
Yep - have always brushed Tamiya paint and/or spray painted.
Nice, a fun build to watch
I built the old Heller 1/35 R35 in 1983 , i did it as one used by the 7th ss division Prinz Eugen in Jugoslavia .
Great review Andy! Thank you very much! 👍🏻
Hey Andy great video where do you find this ammo
Awesome as always Andy! Shout out from Las Vegas!
Great video, thanks for sharing and exposing about our hobby and great idea that of Tamiya san. I only hope that it will circulate many more French and British cars such as a Matilda I, another Matilda II B.E.F, a new Crusader I, II and III ...
Thank you for sharing this video and its channel, like nº 581 and greetings.
Interesting vehicle, first line french but 2nd or 3rd rate when captured by Germany. I wonder if the reason the museum tanks and color pictures show them as having a gloss paint is that they were waxed? If I remember at that time the french were into neat and shiny equipment.
Have u built any Glencoe tank kits?
Beautiful build.
Looks a really nice kit! Really need to build up my kit collection! Great work!
Tamiya finally made some French tanks. The French actually contributed quite a lot to the allied war effort, contrary to popular belief.
Normally retail price on tamiya kits are the blue number on the side of the box. Is in ¥ just change it to usd and boom full retail price. This is what I was told in the store a few years ago.
Nice little kit, at least it's a bit different 👍
Just got mine today 🙃
Looks like a must have for this guy ....will you have this as a Preorder??
Nice job!, I have the HOBBYBOSS version in my stash so maybe that will be sold on when the TAMIYA version arrives!.
Could you give me part number for gundam marker please? I have a toon tank I'm wanting to do a similar camo job on.
I wonder if the 3-d printed kit variant parts on shapeways can be used on this kit.
Andy you would try to find the 1:1 scale model of an 88mm shell. I saw a video from a Japanese model show but could not find any other information. It would look great in your store.
Looking forward to this release.
These little guys would be perfect in a diorama, build a platoon with room to spare.
That looks great brother awesome kit
The Ace of Spades on the museum tank reminded me of a Ma. K piece.
Illustrious Mr. Andy: Please answer me. If the wheels are mobile, why aren't the traks mobile? Thank you.
You said in this video that you have several ammunition examples. You need to make a video of the real ammunition next to the scale model. I think that would be cool!
Do you use additional ventilation with your plastic glue? I often find myself gluing outside (waiting for a pleasant day) and eventually bought a solvent mask. 🥴
That looks really cool, great looking camouflage Keep up the great work and Rust In Peace.
Hang on. Was there an undercoat on the model? Was the sand color just the plastic? Have I been doing things wrong for the last 30 years?
Have you built a Jagdpanzer IV before now ???.
Thanks for sharing - great video! I really like the rotating glue stand - is that another Tamiya product?
Building the Hotchkiss H39 from Bronco right now, simple kit but man the parts are brittle and fiddily
Where did you get such a nice replica for the ammunition?
Do you apply any primer before you paint? Also what kind of tank do you recommend for a beginner who brush paints?
Great Video!!!!
Another great model, Andy! I was thinking of painting the model overall black first (when it comes out of course), and then using a thin string of Silly Putty to mask the the black on the camouflage. Think that will work or is the model to small for that? As well, do you ever use a paint brush for overall painting (i.e. tires) or are you strictly an "airbrush man" for painting?
Andy, do pre-fit the pieces? Also, how do you ensure you are using enough glue? I have trouble with putting too much glue on the model.
You can cover the glue stains using spray painting, worked on my little hard worked tamiya IS-2
Hi Andy great build as usual would you share the brand or link for the gundam marker you used in the camo?
Thanks and keep building
Andy: who makes the gunda marker?
I want to get this kit really bad
Crazy stuff, then theres the 88mikemike
I think Heller made these 1/35 tanks first with one piece tracks ,then Tamiya must have used it as reference to produce their French tank kit .
Wow I’m early!
Amazing job
Btw the gun is not a 40mm x)
It's a 37mm
These were also used by the Israeli Defense Forces. For details, see the new book about early IDF armor by Tom Gannon.
Inside the Chieftans Hatch did an episode on the R35
Just finished the tracks only to discover each side was too short by a single tread. For the life of me I cannot figure where I went wrong; there's no slack in the other links that would allow for the ends not to match up. (Maybe I'm just losing it.) Be nice if Tamiya would include a few extra track links to help in circumstances like this, as well those inevitable times when a single link goes flying off the tweezers never to be seen again.
Thanks For Sharing This Build and Your Skills to Do New Paint Schemes. I Knew You Were Going to Use a Thin Line Paint Pen Tho, Cause I Would've 😉😉😉,, God Bless All.
Nice 👍
Andy,
When you offer this kit for sale on your online store, it would be nice if you could sell the Gundam marker you used for the lines on the camouflage markings and maybe indicate the Gundam marker as a suggested accessory for helping to complete the kit.
great looking kit I'll be buying one of those. awesome paint job and Andy. just one small thing your online store you shipping to the UK yet