Even worse was using the M-47s and M-48s in Movies like Paton and Battle of the Bulge US Tanks are painted to like German tanks ! The T-34 looks a little more like a German tank with a little work.
It's pretty easy for me to tell it's a replica, but it's a better replica than 95% of those used in movies where the budgets are huge. For a low budget home built tank replica it is beyond amazing on the outside.
@@syndicate4417 You are incorrect. Please note: Oktoberfest - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org › wiki › Oktoberfest In 2013, 6.4 million people visited Oktoberfest, and visitors were served 6.7 million litres of beer. On April 21, 2020, Bavarian Minister President Markus Söder and the mayor of Munich, Dieter Reiter, announced the official cancellation of the 2020 Oktoberfest due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
suggestion: build a travel lock for the gun so that it doesnt bounce up and down so much; fit a bulkhead to seperate the engine from the rest of the hull, if only for fire safety; fit a permanent fire extinguisher, operable from the driver's seat and or commander's seat, to the engine bay.
Jose Ymilio Ozaeta but they did have a weighted depression stabilizer. Not sure how complicated it was. Manual weights were added to the guns counterweight, with additional shocks beneath to create a slower abruption. Kind of like you lift your arm up with a can of Cola in a truck when you hit a pothole
@@rn2dresq Hi, i hope you make another Video when the Turret is done. Paul Heiser gave me the tip...look on prestons youtube channel. Paul is my Uncle.
Excellent job. Hard work doesn't have a price tag when it's a labor of love, so it's possible to do anything if you are determined. This most impressive, well done!
Now this is why I love the Internet, finding blokes out there with a similar dream to my own. I too am hoping to start a couple Panzer Replicas, namely the Panzers III, IV and a Stug III. For lack of the funds to find and restore any of the few real remaining Steel Beasties , I must instead endeavor to make me own. ^.-.^
One of the great things about the early days of RUclips - was that _anybody_ could post a video and - so people did and you'd see all these things that average people had done and it was really kind of cool. I'm sure there are still people doing that but they tend to get lost in the plethora of videos done by people who are monetized so that RUclips - is their job. That's OK ... but there was something about just average people putting these things together that was cool. .
Man Nicolas (the chieftain on "The chieftain's hatch) would have a duck fit if he saw how the belt was loose, I suggest getting a track tensioner where the idle wheels are or resize and tension the tracks
OK, OK OK....I SURRENDER. I will try to have a video out this week. And to the "Chieftain "...... I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy....please, just let me live.
Put some high effort accurate schurzen skirts for the hull and turret, then cover it in Ash and Birch limbs with lots of leafs bundles and it would totally pass for a Pz.kpfw. IV Ausf H for movie roles. The proper engine sound could be added in post audio work. It would pass, especially at distant shots in and amongst hedgerows with all its foliage.
I’m working on my own project similar to this, in prototype stage. I modified and resized a little tikes cozy coupe, motorised it, cut it up and re-arranged it again and then covered it in a base layer of cardboard. The turret is just going to be armed with a 4.5mm air gun.
@@petervonfroster8i that seems unlikely? How do they deal with Excavators? Bulldozers? Tracked scissor lifts? All of them have more 'armour' then this thing does. The layer of sheet metal covering this would be about as thick as the steel used in the construction of a vehicle cab. Its actually probably thicker on an excavator.
@@5hiftyL1v3a Armored, Decorations, Licenses, etc. not Building/Construction Material. Still you need a license for it and (since its ww2) you will be called a "Nazi" "Rightwing extremist" by the police and get in trouble by that, and they try thier best to take it away from you anyways....
@@petervonfroster8i how is it armoured tho? Its just sheet metal. Thats like saying a car is armoured simply because it has metal panels. Its the same type and roughly the same thickness. Not sure what you mean by decorations? Regardless - I don't see you needing a license to use a motor vehicle, that isn't nor ever was a military vehicle, on your own property. Sure if he wants to drive it on public roads he would, but that's to be expected. Now if it was an ex military vehicle, then yeah I would expect that even on private property you would need to register it/prove its disarming/have a license - but the thing is - this isn't a military vehicle, it isn't armed or armoured, and its on private property.
So if you were creating a French tank replica you would leave the differential right side up so you could have the one gear forward and three in reverse?
Very good idea on the differential. My sons and I are going to build a couple of replicas for fun as we are tank nuts. At the price you spent you really did a lot. The suspension, tracks and differential seem to be the most complicated parts on a replica. I'm sure on a real tank things like the the gun stabilizer and sighting systems are the most complicated but since our replicas will just have old pipes for a main guns it should be pretty basic!!!
As a German, I can atest that; Although it obviously lacks German quality and therefore partially, what makes our tanks to historically memoreable, I still appreciate the effort, that went into this. Good work. Keep it up. Some personal recommendations would be to tighten the tracks, work on the interior for more control over the machine and offer a proper compartment. And obviously, a real cannon, but that can be saved for last.
I'm literally thinking about doing the same thing. I have a 3g eclipse I'm planning to strip down maybe not a 1:1 sacle but essentially the same, instead of wood Im using 3/16 plate and I Beams for outside armor and chassis construction. Basically going to mock together a second frame and attach them with car shocks the front wheels will already be drivewheels. Then make some tracks out thick rubber belt and straps of plate for tracks. Then have a working pneumatic potato launcher as the turret. Might do a build series
I have 2 questions 1: how does the turret work on the ring of it (how it attaches)? 2: how is the cannon installed in the turret and how it moves up and done when locked into place? Cause I want build a T-43 but it'll be big enough to fit one person and everything else functions practically the same
Turret seats on casters which roll on a ring of angle iron. A piece of 4 inch flat iron ( rolled into ring) welded to inside turret extending down into hull. To simulate sprocket teeth I use forklift chain and welded to inside hull ring. Using small sprocket wheel (came from same scrapped forklift) attached it to inside turret ring. Used old boat wench hand crank for gear reduction. ...." hillbilly engineering " To those hillbillies there, you know that was a complement. For the rest, improvisation is the mother of invention.
THIS IS SO COOL, i cant build my won cuz i am a kid and i have no material😢, but i am thinking in to bildinformation a stationary sherman with a ful interior and a moving turret (not a shootable cannon)
Unfortunately not that many. , When I started I didn't know how far I would get. Also my filming technique is just developing (I'm still learning) I'll see what I can do. Thanks
Imagine if movie makers did this instead of mocking up t34s all the time
Take a look at War Horse Mark 1 tank. They build it almost from scratch and it looks amazing.
It converting an fv
Worse than that is using M-48s ! looking nothing like a German tank. I think in the movie Patton and Battel of the Bulge.
Sad thing is that it would take up too much time and resources to build something like this from scratch to use on a movie set.
Even worse was using the M-47s and M-48s in Movies like Paton and Battle of the Bulge US Tanks are painted to like German tanks ! The T-34 looks a little more like a German tank with a little work.
It's pretty easy for me to tell it's a replica, but it's a better replica than 95% of those used in movies where the budgets are huge. For a low budget home built tank replica it is beyond amazing on the outside.
tighten up the tracks a bit, they look to loose
Solar Flare true
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@@oktoberfest4424 *Octoberfest
@@syndicate4417 You are incorrect. Please note:
Oktoberfest - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org › wiki › Oktoberfest
In 2013, 6.4 million people visited Oktoberfest, and visitors were served 6.7 million litres of beer. On April 21, 2020, Bavarian Minister President Markus Söder and the mayor of Munich, Dieter Reiter, announced the official cancellation of the 2020 Oktoberfest due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
@@ernestpaul2484 lololololol
suggestion: build a travel lock for the gun so that it doesnt bounce up and down so much; fit a bulkhead to seperate the engine from the rest of the hull, if only for fire safety; fit a permanent fire extinguisher, operable from the driver's seat and or commander's seat, to the engine bay.
Jose Ymilio Ozaeta but they did have a weighted depression stabilizer. Not sure how complicated it was.
Manual weights were added to the guns counterweight, with additional shocks beneath to create a slower abruption. Kind of like you lift your arm up with a can of Cola in a truck when you hit a pothole
@@thisisveerus6667 nigga look at the inside u think he gives a fuck
Any guy that builds a panzer 4 on his own is cool in my book
Hey Preston, awesome Replica! Thumbs up, Good Job!
Thanks. Working on inside of turret now.
@@rn2dresq Hi, i hope you make another Video when the Turret is done.
Paul Heiser gave me the tip...look on prestons youtube channel.
Paul is my Uncle.
Looks convincing except for the girth of the barrel. It looks like a german 50mm with the lenght of a 75mm long barrel
when he said panzer iv i was like, isnt that a lll with the 50mm?
5 cm KwK 20 L/100
@@tramlink8544 The chassi and turret are for sure made to look like a IV but the gun looks like a 50mm with a caliber of 100 at least
@@Ghostmaxi1337 Yeah pretty much
Okay, Okay, Okay.
I'll give wy tank some Viagra.
I give you a lot of credit! You built a Pz IV replica on a budget. And it works! Well done!
I can see The_Chieftain dieing inside abit because of the loose track.
Also well done mate on the build looks awesome.
my thoughts also
were my thoughts too!
Excellent job. Hard work doesn't have a price tag when it's a labor of love, so it's possible to do anything if you are determined. This most impressive, well done!
Now this is why I love the Internet, finding blokes out there with a similar dream to my own.
I too am hoping to start a couple Panzer Replicas, namely the Panzers III, IV and a Stug III.
For lack of the funds to find and restore any of the few real remaining Steel Beasties , I must instead endeavor to make me own. ^.-.^
We only have one life.
Chase your dreams.
Go get 'em guy.
Thanks
There is no going back once you begin The Stug life
One of the great things about the early days of RUclips - was that _anybody_ could post a video and - so people did and you'd see all these things that average people had done and it was really kind of cool. I'm sure there are still people doing that but they tend to get lost in the plethora of videos done by people who are monetized so that RUclips - is their job.
That's OK ... but there was something about just average people putting these things together that was cool.
.
Stug life
I can see him driving down the road to the store in his tank.
That thing is badass!
I’m building a long tiger that’s 12/50 the size of an actual one and this panzer inspires me to do more
That is amazing! I know how complicated and temperamental tracks can be to maintain, being an old M60A1 man myself. Looks kickass!
Looks good, but that track needs to be tighter. Being an ex Abrams crewman, track tension is important.
He may have them loose to prevent breaking track links. The links may not be that strong.
Man Nicolas (the chieftain on "The chieftain's hatch) would have a duck fit if he saw how the belt was loose, I suggest getting a track tensioner where the idle wheels are or resize and tension the tracks
OK, OK OK....I SURRENDER.
I will try to have a video out this week.
And to the "Chieftain "...... I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy....please, just let me live.
Put some high effort accurate schurzen skirts for the hull and turret, then cover it in Ash and Birch limbs with lots of leafs bundles and it would totally pass for a Pz.kpfw. IV Ausf H for movie roles. The proper engine sound could be added in post audio work. It would pass, especially at distant shots in and amongst hedgerows with all its foliage.
Beautiful paint job
I’m working on my own project similar to this, in prototype stage. I modified and resized a little tikes cozy coupe, motorised it, cut it up and re-arranged it again and then covered it in a base layer of cardboard. The turret is just going to be armed with a 4.5mm air gun.
Good job mate!
Thanks
Can we just appreciate that this Mukka has a accurate Panzer IV, that would be illegal in Germanistan....
btw. it needs some better Tracks
no it wouldnt
@@5hiftyL1v3a it is counts as an Armored/ Tracked Vehicle and you need licences for that, IF you can get it trough the famous TÜV tests...
@@petervonfroster8i that seems unlikely? How do they deal with Excavators? Bulldozers? Tracked scissor lifts?
All of them have more 'armour' then this thing does. The layer of sheet metal covering this would be about as thick as the steel used in the construction of a vehicle cab. Its actually probably thicker on an excavator.
@@5hiftyL1v3a Armored, Decorations, Licenses, etc. not Building/Construction Material. Still you need a license for it and (since its ww2) you will be called a "Nazi" "Rightwing extremist" by the police and get in trouble by that, and they try thier best to take it away from you anyways....
@@petervonfroster8i how is it armoured tho? Its just sheet metal. Thats like saying a car is armoured simply because it has metal panels. Its the same type and roughly the same thickness.
Not sure what you mean by decorations?
Regardless - I don't see you needing a license to use a motor vehicle, that isn't nor ever was a military vehicle, on your own property. Sure if he wants to drive it on public roads he would, but that's to be expected.
Now if it was an ex military vehicle, then yeah I would expect that even on private property you would need to register it/prove its disarming/have a license - but the thing is - this isn't a military vehicle, it isn't armed or armoured, and its on private property.
So if you were creating a French tank replica you would leave the differential right side up so you could have the one gear forward and three in reverse?
it's so ridiculous, but yet so amazing
Story of my life
Flipping the diff was unbelievably smart
Thanks.
I'm just now seeing this in 2021, and while I give it an A+++ for effort, the old tanker is me is getting seriously triggered by that track tension :D
This just got reccomended to me on RUclips and wow that’s so cool you did a great job
This is Amazing All an Engineer!! 🤯
It's been a year now, have you invaded Poland yet?
Those tracks are saggier than my grandmother's ... !
Certainly something you could look into renting out for use on movie sets.
Hope so
Every day I get more and more inspired about what my future will look like
2:01 engine starting :D
I haven’t found a video on RUclips that’s brought me so much joy. Thank you
Very good idea on the differential. My sons and I are going to build a couple of replicas for fun as we are tank nuts. At the price you spent you really did a lot. The suspension, tracks and differential seem to be the most complicated parts on a replica. I'm sure on a real tank things like the the gun stabilizer and sighting systems are the most complicated but since our replicas will just have old pipes for a main guns it should be pretty basic!!!
For the man who has everything...
Just by adding some depth to the armor you could pump out militia wagons for use in the coming civil war!
As a German, I can atest that;
Although it obviously lacks German quality and therefore partially, what makes our tanks to historically memoreable, I still appreciate the effort, that went into this.
Good work. Keep it up. Some personal recommendations would be to tighten the tracks, work on the interior for more control over the machine and offer a proper compartment.
And obviously, a real cannon, but that can be saved for last.
Aside from needing some track tensioning, it's a very impressive diy project!
This is the best replica I’ve ever seen with this budget!🎉
Thanks
Beyond cool !
Only 5000 dollars ! this deserves a 10 thumbs up !
That's a better mockup than anything hollywood has produced.
How did you reproduce the sprockets, midrollers and bogeys????
Those tracks are sketchy! Tighten them up! Awesome job!
Thats awesome
Keep it up
Wow!!!!! How amazing! I wish I had the land to hire you on as a consultant to build one for me with a much bigger budget...
Thanks for the thought.
I’m gonna make a sherman with a mower
A mower? What scale?
It's all mine can do with a Ford 302
Idk yet I need to put more thought in it
We have an old truck my dad bought to get the back axel so I might be able to get parts off of that
I’m making a Tank with a roofless golf cart. Should be like... maybe 2/5 scale.
@@GoofyG00BER165 You could do 1/1 Scale if you make an L/33.
nice one maybe just tighten the tracks and add a fire extuinguisher but its nice
NOICE LOVE THESE VIDEOS
Thanks. I'll try to make more.
got to hand it go you, you have made a tank so very well done.
So much detail
could we get some more infomation on the differential. i dont fully understand how you have done it
Buddy you are a legend ! FANTASTIC ! Well done !
Thank you
Reminds me of the VWs that were made in Mexico. :D Just kiddin'. Very cool Pz IV- gut gemacht, Soldat!
This is amazing just watching this video makes me want this soooooo bad
I'm literally thinking about doing the same thing. I have a 3g eclipse I'm planning to strip down maybe not a 1:1 sacle but essentially the same, instead of wood Im using 3/16 plate and I Beams for outside armor and chassis construction. Basically going to mock together a second frame and attach them with car shocks the front wheels will already be drivewheels. Then make some tracks out thick rubber belt and straps of plate for tracks. Then have a working pneumatic potato launcher as the turret. Might do a build series
Those treads need some tension they're really buckling
Yup.
Already done. Thanks
This is awesome. I'm building a T-26
Can you participate in May 2024 in Holland at Militracks or at the eyewitness event on the original 1944 battlefield of Overloon? Would be cool.
Being I'm from California, that would be quite a trick.
Love to participate, but sorry.
Preston that is the business!
I have 2 questions
1: how does the turret work on the ring of it (how it attaches)?
2: how is the cannon installed in the turret and how it moves up and done when locked into place?
Cause I want build a T-43 but it'll be big enough to fit one person and everything else functions practically the same
Turret seats on casters which roll on a ring of angle iron. A piece of 4 inch flat iron ( rolled into ring) welded to inside turret extending down into hull.
To simulate sprocket teeth I use forklift chain and welded to inside hull ring. Using small sprocket wheel (came from same scrapped forklift) attached it to inside turret ring. Used old boat wench hand crank for gear reduction.
...." hillbilly engineering "
To those hillbillies there, you know that was a complement.
For the rest, improvisation is the mother of invention.
10:35 pm Friday 22 January 2021 Malaysia. Nice tank
Excellent Job!! Keep making MORE!! Tiger 1s, 2s, Panthers, Elephants, and we need some FLAK PANZERS Dag Nabbit!!!
This video: exists
GuP fans: Tehc mode activated
Roses are red
Rommel has spoken
Zee transmission is again broken
Preston this is amazing
That's a cool German tiger those gun grabbers will think twice before they think versallies again meaning removing arms and implementing other things
AWESOME ... just ...AWESOME !
Thanks....just thanks.
I'll try to make you proud.
When this is better made than most German tanks of the war
That's pretty cool.
That is such a neat project ! Color me impressed. 😁
Have One of this Is my dream ... Hope i Will be able to get One of this in my Life.
Anything is possible.
We only have one life,
follow your dreams
Awsome job but the hull MG could use some work
Where did you get your drive sprocket and tension wheel?
Drive sprocket:
Made from old truck rim and a 3 ft pipe flag. Welded the sprockets....one by one.
Tension Wheel:
Totally scratch built.
BRILLIANT, ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!
Gotta make this!
I’m shocked! This is amazing!
I hope someday you make flakpanzer Kugelblitz , until now there are no restoration or survivor of this vehicle in the museum
This is awesome! Keep it goin!
Thank you.
I love that tank!!!!!
Thanks. I'm working on a Panther tank now.
"Panther replica"
THIS IS SO COOL, i cant build my won cuz i am a kid and i have no material😢, but i am thinking in to bildinformation a stationary sherman with a ful interior and a moving turret (not a shootable cannon)
Where have you placed the gearbox and how do you shift?
It's the Automatic Transmission attached to the back of the Engine...
Fabulous work.
This is whyAmerica is such a great nation. Innovation.
The only qui have is how did you make the tracks
Stand by.......making my next film on is exact subject.
.....sorry for the delay.
this is insane the good kind not the bad kind.. im saying its great
Thanks
Excellent! I love this!
But can it go through Ardennes forest
Awesome!
Are you not turning because the tracks come off when you try?
I feel like this could work great with the soviet t-26 light tank, you could probably even use a bulldozer for it
KV-2, take family for picnic in turret...
If you ever plan to sell one I'd totally buy one
Thanks. I keep that in mind.
pretty cool pretty cool !
I love that
Nicely done!
Hello sir, can I have your plans for the turret? Please
Do you have pictures from the build from the start to now ?
Unfortunately not that many. , When I started I didn't know how far I would get. Also my filming technique is just developing (I'm still learning) I'll see what I can do.
Thanks
@@rn2dresq where are you located? Is there a way I could come and see it in person?
Well done mate hope it’s working well
Thank you
This is Fantastic.