As an RC modeller, I thank you for your great contribution to the golden era of 1/16 scale. These models are often the basis for modification to driving ones. The market for all kinds of accessories and figures has expanded.
I don’t even build military models but these are fanatastic! Think I may have to dive in to one of these. Thanks a lot Andy for adding another project in my life! Lol!
My eyes are killing me (it's late), but I watched this and saw your fantastic models! Wow, Andy! You really are great! I love that Easy 8, man, and all those German pieces! I love that Stug, man! It's hard to rank them, they are all so good! Yeah, take care! We love you, Andy!
I'm still waiting to see your painted 1/16 Scale M10 Achilles Andy. Congratulations on the awards for the Sherman and the Tiger 1 Early. I bought the latter in March last year and I'm now finally painting it.
First things first! I love your videos and model kits! So keep up the good work. I like your reviews but I also miss the building videos, I used them as reference and to learn (actually learnt a lot). Greetings from south america
Andy, your kits are incredible and I own most of them! I’d adore a 1/16 Churchill tank! I’d buy at least two! Can’t wait for the acav! In the mean time please keep producing amazing 1/16 kits!
Everything looks awesome Andy. How about a video on you or your figure manufacturer doing full paint up of a figure. Thanks in advance. How about a 1/16 scale Hellcat.
Cool video Andy! Keep ‘em coming. Also, a Brit Matilda would be a great addition for your (and our) 1/16 North Africa stable! Or maybe a 1/16 S.A.S. Land Rover Pink Panther! Looking forward to it whatever it is!
Andy, Many congratulations on the awards…..so well deserved….love the kits……..would absolutely love a Matilda…my Uncle Dennis was in the Desert Rats and the Matilda was the tank he drove into the battle of El Alamein. I’m sure you can appreciate how much I personally would love such a model. My family was a large family all of whom other than my father (he was only very young at the time) fought during the War, even my Aunts either made parachutes or ammunition in the factories in and around Wolverhampton (U.K) and my ambition is to build a model celebrating each ones Service…….. Congratulations again.
Hi Andy, thanks for taking your time from your daily business and showing us these very nicely done models (I miss your build videos, I was re-watching some of them just for the fun of it). Unfortunately I cannot follow you into the 1:16 country (albeit it would do wonders for my eye sight painting the details) but I just don't have the space to exhibit them. Do you have your own model gallery ? ;-) If you're into the North African theater, could/would you do British vehicles ? Are there even 1:16 Matilda IIs and Crusaders ? Not to mention the rather quirky looking early english light and cruiser tanks.
Great builds! I have your 1/16 Sherman and Tiger and had a blast with both of them. Unfortunately, the scale is just too large for me and the space I have. However, I may have to squeeze in the M113 since my uncle served in Vietnam on one.
Hey Andy!! You want crew on your tanks an not destroy your paint job, well that's easy, just use white Elmer's glue, it will hold any crew in or on your tanks.
Hi Andy, that certainly is a great collection of 1/16th kits, way too large for me, I would consider the M113, I would really like to see you go back to the 1/35th scale builds, very happy to see your business go from strength to strength, best regards from Australia, Les
Very cool, Andy. A couple of questions. First, have you seen something called a "media blaster"? Many years ago I saw a model of a German North Africa vehicle that had been painted a steel color and then had the DAK yellow applied over it. The builder then used the "media blaster" to simulate the wind driven sand that "chipped" away the DAK paint, very realistically. I saw that you heavily chipped your Panzer 1, but thought about how it would look if it was actually "sand blasted". Second, do you have any idea if someone will plan after market parts for your M113 so it can be turned into something newer? I'm not really a 1:16 modeler but if I could produce an M113A3, that would be way cool. Thanks!
thank you Andy for all these beautiful 1/16 kits. It’s a very interesting scale and one that can be detailed in abundance. (by the way, I really enjoyed building your M8). Continue in this direction. Have a good one.
Really, really nice. I have a 1/16th Challenger 2 that I'm playing with at the moment but I don't have another 1/16th hole for anything else. Now you are doing a 1/16th M113! I haven't worked out YET how I could get away with buying one when it comes out. Most models I can resist the temptation but I do love the M113.
Great video Andy and even better collection of 1/16kits ,truly a master modeler Hoping for m18 hellcat ww2 tank next or a m26 Pershing, can't wait for the next kit 😊
Superb creations Andy, I already have 3. But please, produce a 1/16 Harley iron horse..... it's very lacking in this scale. Do you think you will do it in the near future? Thanks
Great models. By the way, the left track on your Pz. I Ausf. A is mounted in reversed running direction. I, like others, have mixed feelings towards 1/16 scale. Too large for me to put anywhere. Even a small base for them has the size of a full blown 1/35 diorama. Putting an aftermarket crew into them easily turns into a three-digit- endeavor. I have decided to just have two models in this scale, my own personal favored tanks, one of them being Andy’s own Tiger model (with a third of the initial investment spent on top for a correction set. And some more for a new tank commander). Everything else is and will continue to be in 1/35.
For me the 1/16th scale kits give people the chance to build at least that one great centrepiece model we all want. They are in fact maybe easier to build than 1/35 and give you the opportunity if you wish, to super detail. Just avoid full interior kits and you'll stay sane. 😫😐
Hello, Andy. This is David from Tennessee I have 2 questions for you. I really hope you answer them because I am very curious. Question one, Do you have a 1/35th scale B24 kit. If not, can you order one for me? My father was in one in World War 2. He was in the US NAVY. They had the B24 bombers that was used against the Japanese. He transferred to the bombers after his Aircraft Carrier was sunk by a Japanese submarine. I think it was the same Carrier that ex-president Bush was on. But I am not for sure about that information. My father was a waste gunner in a B24. I would very much like to buy a B24. if you can get me 1 in 1/35th scale. Question 2, on the tank that you said has your name on it. Will you do that tank in a full interior? I think they would sell. But that is just my opinion, thank you very much and Goodbye.
I like the 1:16 scale but with 1:16 and 1:48 armour matching the standard aircraft scales why can’t someone like Tamiya break into 1:32 scale armour, call it MM 32, and upscale their 1:35 best examples to 1:32.
I’d like to see less 1/16 as well,I also liked the older videos that had assorted builds,it’s like the same kits over and over,Nigel did the same with Lancasters,and I unsubscribed to his channel.Can we hope for more build videos for builders that can’t afford these 1/16 huge kits
What's missing in the 1/6 and needed are interior detail sets for modelers who want to open everything up to see inside and figures in combat poses. For example, action poses like standing by the turret and firing the 50 BMG, and seated figures driving, loading, and aiming the gun instead of the usual boring standing-around poses that come in just about every kit. BORING! Can we have some action, please!
What can I say. No Soviet armor here. Who in a world needs 113 while we don’t have is2 or is3? Su76? We have couple t34 but they pretty lame on modern standards
@@randomnickify how so? I don’t need any modern armor. But we don’t have ww2 armor which fights against nazis. Furthermore we have 113 which run all over the place in some Eastern European country
So much for Mediocre 'eh.... I like these and all, but I miss the old channel, building kits that most people could afford and had room for... these 1/16 scale ones are far too large and out of budget for a model kit for me.... it's a switch every once in a while, but nowadays it seems everything is one of these, or some parts review.... I've almost stopped watching where I use to watch every video....
Same here. I will let Andy do the thing he loves. But for me 1/16 just doesn't work. They are rather expensive and I don't know where I'd leave the finished models. Glad there are smaller scales for people like us. :)
How is he wrong? He stated his opinion on the matter. "You are wrong" means someone doesn't gets his facts right. There are no facts in this thread. Only opinions. You can agree or disagree but you cannot say "you are wrong". Especially not without any sort of reasoning.
David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Wednesday, 25 September, 2024) Andy, I hope you and your circle are well. As I watch your video chronology, I imagine what I would do had I a similar kit collection. I envision a troop convoy of platoon or company size with a couple early M-4 Sherman U.S. Army medium tanks, a few Jeeps (Willys Overland M-38 U.S. Army ¼-ton 4×4 general purpose light utility trucks), an M-16 half-track with a Quad-mount turret of four Browning M-2, 50-cal machine-guns, several GMC CCKW 353 U.S. Army 2.5-ton 6×6 cargo trucks (I know of no such kit; however, a UA-camr [I cannot recall who] had mentioned on another channel that he knew of a fellow who makes 3D kits replicating this vehicle [likely amongst others] in various scales of astounding detail and accuracy, even in 1:72nd-scale! One was a 1:16th-scale RC model capable of driving through an actual snowfall. German conveyances such as those you show (half-tracks, cargo trucks, tanks, armoured cars, the wreck of a downed Luftwaffe fighter or dive bomber, etc.), I would pose as severely battle-damaged equipment discarded or abandoned at the roadside. In another video, I read a report on a vintage Bandai kit of the 1937 Rolls Royce Phantom III Sedan (UA-cam “This 1937 Rolls Royce kit is enormous!!! I had no idea the box would be this big!!” [Model Car Videos, Monday, 9 October, 2023]), which I would place near to the end of the queue, to dramatise a wealthy, elderly English couple making passage with the soldiers in the effort to make their way across the pastoral Italian countryside of late spring eventually to return to the quiet comforts of his familial estate in southwestern Great Britain. At round 9:00, you mention “Das Werk’s very first 1:16th-scale kit, . . . the StuG IIIG”, explaining that you had built it in “2001, . . . a little over three years ago . . . .” (then at 10:09) “We announced it at the IPMS [International Plastic Modeler’s Society] Nationals right after CoVid happened in the [Las] Vegas show.” I am trying to sort the chronology, to determine the origins of kits as their availability lapses.
Well done Andy! And you are NOT a mediocre modeler.
Thnak you
1:16 all day! Best scale ever
Yep, it is
Thank you for taking the time away from your busy business schedule to create these to share. A modeler at heart.
Thank you for watching.
As an RC modeller, I thank you for your great contribution to the golden era of 1/16 scale. These models are often the basis for modification to driving ones. The market for all kinds of accessories and figures has expanded.
Many thanks!
I don’t even build military models but these are fanatastic! Think I may have to dive in to one of these. Thanks a lot Andy for adding another project in my life! Lol!
My eyes are killing me (it's late), but I watched this and saw your fantastic models! Wow, Andy! You really are great! I love that Easy 8, man, and all those German pieces! I love that Stug, man! It's hard to rank them, they are all so good! Yeah, take care! We love you, Andy!
Your figure painting is brilliant, got Twins in the m8
I'm still waiting to see your painted 1/16 Scale M10 Achilles Andy.
Congratulations on the awards for the Sherman and the Tiger 1 Early. I bought the latter in March last year and I'm now finally painting it.
First things first! I love your videos and model kits! So keep up the good work. I like your reviews but I also miss the building videos, I used them as reference and to learn (actually learnt a lot). Greetings from south america
Thank you.
Andy, your kits are incredible and I own most of them! I’d adore a 1/16 Churchill tank! I’d buy at least two! Can’t wait for the acav! In the mean time please keep producing amazing 1/16 kits!
You now have 23 Tigers 🤣
Thank you for all you do to advance our community/hobby!
Yeah he’s in a safari of panzers. 🤣
Everything looks awesome Andy. How about a video on you or your figure manufacturer doing full paint up of a figure. Thanks in advance. How about a 1/16 scale Hellcat.
been missing your builds lately
Nice work Andy and you are NOT a mediocre modeler.👍👍👏👏
Thank you.
The Takom jeep is amazing.
Jeep and sherman definitely been my favourites up to now currently on greyhound lovely builds andy
Cool video Andy! Keep ‘em coming. Also, a Brit Matilda would be a great addition for your (and our) 1/16 North Africa stable! Or maybe a 1/16 S.A.S. Land Rover Pink Panther! Looking forward to it whatever it is!
Andy, Many congratulations on the awards…..so well deserved….love the kits……..would absolutely love a Matilda…my Uncle Dennis was in the Desert Rats and the Matilda was the tank he drove into the battle of El Alamein.
I’m sure you can appreciate how much I personally would love such a model.
My family was a large family all of whom other than my father (he was only very young at the time) fought during the War, even my Aunts either made parachutes or ammunition in the factories in and around Wolverhampton (U.K) and my ambition is to build a model celebrating each ones Service……..
Congratulations again.
Sherman was my first 1.16 aswell great kit Andy please do the ARV Sherman
Great work Andy, looking forward to the M113 and seeing what the new kit will be, glad I got a Tiger I when I did.
Thank you I’m excited to see it too
Hi Andy, thanks for taking your time from your daily business and showing us these very nicely done models (I miss your build videos, I was re-watching some of them just for the fun of it). Unfortunately I cannot follow you into the 1:16 country (albeit it would do wonders for my eye sight painting the details) but I just don't have the space to exhibit them. Do you have your own model gallery ? ;-)
If you're into the North African theater, could/would you do British vehicles ? Are there even 1:16 Matilda IIs and Crusaders ? Not to mention the rather quirky looking early english light and cruiser tanks.
PS: Do you still have some of these "Mediocre Modeller" T-shirts on sale ? From AAHQ Europe ? I'd love to buy a couple of them ;-)
Great builds! I have your 1/16 Sherman and Tiger and had a blast with both of them. Unfortunately, the scale is just too large for me and the space I have. However, I may have to squeeze in the M113 since my uncle served in Vietnam on one.
congratulations on the wins
Amazing models, awesome scale, my favourite is the The Sturmgeschütz III - you did a great job on that ✌️😊👍💜
Thank you I love that kit
Hey Andy!! You want crew on your tanks an not destroy your paint job, well that's easy, just use white Elmer's glue, it will hold any crew in or on your tanks.
Hi Andy, that certainly is a great collection of 1/16th kits, way too large for me, I would consider the M113, I would really like to see you go back to the 1/35th scale builds, very happy to see your business go from strength to strength, best regards from Australia, Les
Awesome work Andy any chance of getting 16th scale soft skin like cargo trucks
Very cool, Andy. A couple of questions. First, have you seen something called a "media blaster"? Many years ago I saw a model of a German North Africa vehicle that had been painted a steel color and then had the DAK yellow applied over it. The builder then used the "media blaster" to simulate the wind driven sand that "chipped" away the DAK paint, very realistically. I saw that you heavily chipped your Panzer 1, but thought about how it would look if it was actually "sand blasted". Second, do you have any idea if someone will plan after market parts for your M113 so it can be turned into something newer? I'm not really a 1:16 modeler but if I could produce an M113A3, that would be way cool. Thanks!
I remember the quaint diorama videos you posted way back in the original smaller shop.
Great video & beautiful work on your 1/16 scale models. Keep it up!😁✅
Thank you very much!
thank you Andy for all these beautiful 1/16 kits. It’s a very interesting scale and one that can be detailed in abundance. (by the way, I really enjoyed building your M8). Continue in this direction. Have a good one.
Thank you I appreciate it.
Just wow!!!!!
Thank you
Thanks for all the work that you do in the Hobby. Love the videos!
Thanks for watching!
Very nice collection ! 1/16 is my favourite scale...the only problem ... You need space in your home !
Really, really nice. I have a 1/16th Challenger 2 that I'm playing with at the moment but I don't have another 1/16th hole for anything else.
Now you are doing a 1/16th M113!
I haven't worked out YET how I could get away with buying one when it comes out. Most models I can resist the temptation but I do love the M113.
That scale is the best IMO
Great builds cool vid 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you it’s good to look back at what I have built over the years.
All Hail KING ANDY !!
Great video Andy and even better collection of 1/16kits ,truly a master modeler
Hoping for m18 hellcat ww2 tank next or a m26 Pershing, can't wait for the next kit 😊
Stayed tuned next kit is going to be exciting
Fantastic job, wishing you continued success. I must get my hands on a 1/15 Tiger !
Thanks for watching
@@AndysHobbyHeadquarters Oops 1/16th Tiger, as always great videos.
Congratulations on your kit of the year
Thank you!
I was looking for some of these 1/16 reviews, thanks!
Glad I could help!
Nice work Andy!
So many models
Looks great. But the grab handle sprue attachment points look very thick
3:58 The Panzer 1 Ausf B gun mantlet is upside down !. All these are stunning kits though
Andy, thats business opportunity - do release rotating stand big enough for 1/16 models ;D
I very miss your build video
Impressionnant !!!! BRAVOS!!!!!!
Thank you.
Wow, these look really great!
Glad you like them!
Superb creations Andy, I already have 3. But please, produce a 1/16 Harley iron horse..... it's very lacking in this scale. Do you think you will do it in the near future? Thanks
Great video
Really looking forward to the M113!!😎
Me too , very soon
Great models. By the way, the left track on your Pz. I Ausf. A is mounted in reversed running direction.
I, like others, have mixed feelings towards 1/16 scale. Too large for me to put anywhere. Even a small base for them has the size of a full blown 1/35 diorama. Putting an aftermarket crew into them easily turns into a three-digit- endeavor. I have decided to just have two models in this scale, my own personal favored tanks, one of them being Andy’s own Tiger model (with a third of the initial investment spent on top for a correction set. And some more for a new tank commander). Everything else is and will continue to be in 1/35.
Hi Andy,
What happened to the 1/16th Jagde Panther you built years ago?
Did you ever finish the tamiya1/16 centurion?
The Panzer I kit would be so nice as a Sturmpanzer I Bison or Panzerjäger I.
Yes I agree
Great video !! Do you think we will ever see any 1/16 engines for our bigger tanks ?
Hopefully some aftermarket
@@AndysHobbyHeadquarters hopefully one day
Chinese Tankette, Japanese Tankette... looks good anyway!
Will steel or iron rust in 1) a completely arid environment that is 2) so hot water evaporates before it can pool?
jolie collection ;)
Thanks 😁
I'd really appreciate an M3 Stuart in 1/16 scale.
Hi Andy, any chance we will see a wrecker or a 2 1/2 ton truck?
I’m always open to suggestions.
We need VW Typ 166 Schwimmwagen Steyr 1500A Ford V 3000 Maultier in 1/16 Andy 🙏🏻
Salut belle brochette de maquettes et le Abraham's au 1/16,????
What happened to the British tank destroyer?
It’s not done yet . I show it in the video
@@AndysHobbyHeadquarters Andy, thanks for the update. They all look great, excellent work
Sure wish they would do a Japanese type 97 tank.
For me the 1/16th scale kits give people the chance to build at least that one great centrepiece model we all want. They are in fact maybe easier to build than 1/35 and give you the opportunity if you wish, to super detail. Just avoid full interior kits and you'll stay sane. 😫😐
Nice, Andy! A suggestion for 1/16 scale model candidate: Eddie Rickenbacker, WWI ace either in a Spad XIII, or in an early Indycar, or both.
👍👍👏👏
Makes mine amateurish!
Be nice if an aftermarket company makes the external tanks for the M113 to convert it to an A3 version or even the slate armor upgrade... :)
Hello, Andy. This is David from Tennessee I have 2 questions for you. I really hope you answer them because I am very curious. Question one, Do you have a 1/35th scale B24 kit. If not, can you order one for me? My father was in one in World War 2. He was in the US NAVY. They had the B24 bombers that was used against the Japanese. He
transferred to the bombers after his Aircraft Carrier was sunk by a Japanese submarine.
I think it was the same Carrier that ex-president Bush was on. But I am not for sure about that information. My father was a waste gunner in a B24.
I would very much like to buy a B24. if you can get me 1 in 1/35th scale. Question 2, on the tank that you said has your name on it. Will you do that tank in a full interior? I
think they would sell. But that is just my opinion, thank you very much and Goodbye.
Cmon Andy….we need pre dreadnoughts. Use your pull in Europe/Far East🤣🤣🇺🇸
Take. a. Look. at. My. Built. 1/16. Model. Collection
I like the 1:16 scale but with 1:16 and 1:48 armour matching the standard aircraft scales why can’t someone like Tamiya break into 1:32 scale armour, call it MM 32, and upscale their 1:35 best examples to 1:32.
I’d like to see less 1/16 as well,I also liked the older videos that had assorted builds,it’s like the same kits over and over,Nigel did the same with Lancasters,and I unsubscribed to his channel.Can we hope for more build videos for builders that can’t afford these 1/16 huge kits
What's missing in the 1/6 and needed are interior detail sets for modelers who want to open everything up to see inside and figures in combat poses. For example, action poses like standing by the turret and firing the 50 BMG, and seated figures driving, loading, and aiming the gun instead of the usual boring standing-around poses that come in just about every kit. BORING! Can we have some action, please!
1/16 is too big. They should do 1/24.
What can I say. No Soviet armor here. Who in a world needs 113 while we don’t have is2 or is3? Su76? We have couple t34 but they pretty lame on modern standards
Or some inter/early war soviet desings
Soviet is bit... tacky this days in case you didn't noticed.
@@randomnickify how so? I don’t need any modern armor. But we don’t have ww2 armor which fights against nazis. Furthermore we have 113 which run all over the place in some Eastern European country
So much for Mediocre 'eh.... I like these and all, but I miss the old channel, building kits that most people could afford and had room for... these 1/16 scale ones are far too large and out of budget for a model kit for me.... it's a switch every once in a while, but nowadays it seems everything is one of these, or some parts review.... I've almost stopped watching where I use to watch every video....
Same here. I will let Andy do the thing he loves. But for me 1/16 just doesn't work. They are rather expensive and I don't know where I'd leave the finished models. Glad there are smaller scales for people like us. :)
You are wrong
How is he wrong? He stated his opinion on the matter. "You are wrong" means someone doesn't gets his facts right. There are no facts in this thread. Only opinions. You can agree or disagree but you cannot say "you are wrong". Especially not without any sort of reasoning.
I love that more company’s are taking on de 1/16 scale kits.
A few years ago you had to wait a long time before there was a new kit.
Same. Miss the old channel
David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Wednesday, 25 September, 2024)
Andy, I hope you and your circle are well.
As I watch your video chronology, I imagine what I would do had I a similar kit collection. I envision a troop convoy of platoon or company size with a couple early M-4 Sherman U.S. Army medium tanks, a few Jeeps (Willys Overland M-38 U.S. Army ¼-ton 4×4 general purpose light utility trucks), an M-16 half-track with a Quad-mount turret of four Browning M-2, 50-cal machine-guns, several GMC CCKW 353 U.S. Army 2.5-ton 6×6 cargo trucks (I know of no such kit; however, a UA-camr [I cannot recall who] had mentioned on another channel that he knew of a fellow who makes 3D kits replicating this vehicle [likely amongst others] in various scales of astounding detail and accuracy, even in 1:72nd-scale! One was a 1:16th-scale RC model capable of driving through an actual snowfall.
German conveyances such as those you show (half-tracks, cargo trucks, tanks, armoured cars, the wreck of a downed Luftwaffe fighter or dive bomber, etc.), I would pose as severely battle-damaged equipment discarded or abandoned at the roadside.
In another video, I read a report on a vintage Bandai kit of the 1937 Rolls Royce Phantom III Sedan (UA-cam “This 1937 Rolls Royce kit is enormous!!! I had no idea the box would be this big!!” [Model Car Videos, Monday, 9 October, 2023]), which I would place near to the end of the queue, to dramatise a wealthy, elderly English couple making passage with the soldiers in the effort to make their way across the pastoral Italian countryside of late spring eventually to return to the quiet comforts of his familial estate in southwestern Great Britain.
At round 9:00, you mention “Das Werk’s very first 1:16th-scale kit, . . . the StuG IIIG”, explaining that you had built it in “2001, . . . a little over three years ago . . . .” (then at 10:09) “We announced it at the IPMS [International Plastic Modeler’s Society] Nationals right after CoVid happened in the [Las] Vegas show.” I am trying to sort the chronology, to determine the origins of kits as their availability lapses.