A Beginner's Guide to Model Making | The Tank Museum

In the final episode of the 'Salute to Model Making' season, Steve Malley presents a guide on how to choose and build your first model. Fancy giving it a go yourself? You can find a fantastic range of Model Starter kits and Modeller's Add On Bundles by visiting The Tank Museum's online shop:
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[tophercaesar]

We just need a Series of this chap just making models start to Finish

[andrebartels]

Most important step: Take your time. Model making is supposed to be a hobby. Don't hasten towards completion. Make it your quality time.

[TheSaturnV]

Imagine building your scale model while sitting 10 feet away from the 1:1 version!

[Caratacus]

Gluing a Harrier jump jet to your face is possibly the most badass thing ever. I bet the girls were well impressed 😁

[fidinboca]

Thank you Friends! Modeler since 1977. Today is very better to be a modeler, but more expensive !!! Sorry for my poor english.

[karlmuller]

My love for model making started back in the early 70s sat at the kitchen table watching my dad make and paint Airfix aircraft kits (for my bedroom ceiling)Then he bought me a 1/72nd stuka kit and he sat and watched me/advised me on building it.Since those early days, I must have built hundreds of various kits and I still have the passion for model making.

[bob_._.]

"Have you ever had any modeling disasters?"... that look... "You haven't lived until you've been to hospital with a Harrier jump jet glued to your face" ROFLMAO

[jacobs.]

I'd love to see more videos of Steve just chatting and building models and recounting memories of his past models. He's very relaxing to listen to and watch.

[AlexWheeler]

I just ordered two starter kits for my Dad and I today :) Building the Sherman and the Cromwell!

[nonamesplease]

I think everybody in my generation had an Airfix model as their first kit, even here in the States. Mine was an Airfix Westland Lysander. To this day I seek out models of the oddball planes and armor to build. Thank you for this series!

[ModelNerd]

Nice beginners guide. Hopefully it will encourage more people into the hobby.

[kirishima]

Came out perfectly! Surprising given the way the decals were applied (no fix, no decal medium).

[maxkronader]

The Harrier glued to the face is a very funny story. I narrowly avoided a similar fate with a 1/35th scale Tamiya Jagdtiger!😁

[skelenton]

Thank you for actually teaching beginners about good habits, such as proper tools (nippers) and most importantly PRIMER! So many tutorials forget that, and some especially horrible ones (shoutout to Airfix) tell people to twist the parts off the runners.

[greatoverlordchikonmaster]

The modelling videos have been pretty nice so far, gotten quite a decent collection of models myself

[ryanduffy]

Yeah, I wanna see more of this guy. Let him have a segment where he puts together various kits. That would be cool 👍

[jameskamminga]

Bloody hell your model shop is a personal heaven!

[martincotterill]

Great video! I get quite discouraged seeing top modellers on Youtube. Here you showed how easy it can be to achieve a good enough result. Cheers!

[gwoody]

I am very jealous of the Tank Museum crew.
History in general and in specific, military history, has been an interest and hobby of mine since highschool.
I would be in heaven if my career was sharing that enthusiasm with others.

[matthewcapra]

Please do more with him just making models start to finish it’s very relaxing