Try Tamiya Super thin glue. Oh and hate PE also.

Aaah, a standalone non-streamed build video, just what I needed to go with my midmorning coffee and doughnut. Glad to see you futzing around with all that photoetch. I know it’s a hemmohroid, still a modeler has to stretch themselves once in a while. Soon you’ll be saying “I don’t know why everyone hates photoetch so much.”. Well, not soon, maybe eventually.

This looks like a nice kit in the end. I guess many of the PE parts would be bend in sercive on the real thing. So if they are uneven on the model it is probably accurate and not as bad as you think. Adding better tracks if the original ones annoy you is a good idea.

Miniart, even without interior it's so many parts

Thank you for removing the noisy cellophane before you begin your talk. It is so annoying!!

Bullshit! Wheres the extras' go and Crew???

2:19 the roughness above the gun mount is because it was intended to be a "female" machine gun only tank when manufactured but it was quickly decided to have all of them with one 57mm cannon so a piece of the nose of the tank was cut out and the gun installed. you can tell it was manufactured as a machine gun only tank by the large viewports on the front which were where the machine guns were mounted. the ones manufactured as "male" cannon armed tanks have only small viewports on the front. youre so lucky to be able to see mephisto up close! id love to see it up close, but i live 9000 miles away lol.

Wow, ich wußte nicht das ein deutscher Panzer aus dem 1.WK noch existiert. Sehr interessant, aber leider zu weit weg.

Hey Herbert just curious what do u do with all the models you build?

A crew of 20 moving at 0.0001 mph….what could go wrong? 🙄😉

I've visited it a couple times. Only tank I've ever seen in person

Mephisto ❤

OG turtle tank idea

As a kid, my mates & I, in 1950's / 60's after playing hockey at nearby Victoria Park, would visit Mephisto & play war inside. I remember a big hole blown in the roof, the entire insides burnt out and rusty. As the "driver", I sat on the rusted springs of the seat playing with the frozen steering levers, I don't remember any steering wheel nor any guns fitted. A proud work for the restorers.

Lo malo es que nadie podía fumar con unas negritas Americanas América 🇦🇷

What old mate devil holding ? It looks like a surfboard on first inspection

I was half expecting a Bob Semple tank.

A pub-crawl with the committee that designed this would be a barrel of laughs. ...

Damn and blast, I wish I had known. As a ten pound pom I lived in Brissy '71 and '72 before moving on to Moresby with the Comm Bank. I started off in Sth Brisbane before moving around the city ( a big country town in those days) and had no idea about the museum in Bowen Hills. As a early 20's lad bikes and birds were far more important. Nearly 50 years living in Mallorca and I still have a hankering to go back for a looksee, even though I know much would be unrecognisable. When I was in Sth Bne they were just starting the Gateway Bridge. Gods Own Country .

The Devil with the surfboard under his arm is a nice period-correct touch :)

I spent hours inside that Tank as a child. Made you think about the crew.

The Brits had a couple of A7Vs slated for preservation at the Imperial War Museum, that were on display outside the entrance. Unfortunately, a child scrambling over one cut his hand and the "populist" press started a campaign about the "vicious Hun machines still hurting British children!" and demanded they be scrapped....and they were..........

As a young child I would catch the tram from Chermside to the museum, the tank was under a tile roof with a white picket fence around it. The sign said 'KEEP OUT'. As any boy of that time I had to get inside, once inside the smell of stale engine oil and encrusted deasil fuel was still in the air, the motor was huge filling the center of the cavity. There were no machine guns on it then, long removed but you could imagine them in place cutting down ground troops. It was dark and small, I was a boy of 13 in 1966, a bit bigger than most, I found it hard to get around inside and couldn't imagine how they could get any more than 10 men inside, to hear latter in life they fitted 18 and up to 25 is beyond belief. They must have been very, very small brave men.

I found the display very moving to think of the men who crewed it and those Aussies who took it. Spoils of war, winners are grinners

Thank you, very much, for producing this video. I knew of The Tank Museum, Bovington Camp, England. I knew about the origins of the British Mark 1 tank and its construction by Fosters of Lincoln. I knew of Deborah, the British WWI tank recovered from Flesquières near Cambrai. I have visited all these locations along with the WWI battlefields of France and Gallipoli. However, I knew nothing whatsoever of the existence of this rare A7V tank. This has been a revelation. I'll probably never get to visit Australia, never mind Brisbane, so your description of the Anzac Legacy Gallery and Mephisto, is deeply appreciated. I'm delighted it's in Brisbane. What a treasure. It's good to have the boot on the other foot for a change. Cheers and ATB (All the Best).

At the time I got to see this tank I was told it didn’t exist. Boy was I surprised and my friend a fellow WW1 historian didn’t believe me. I took a photo and about 3 to 4 years later it came to light. That was about 1982/3. Great stuff.

Und BY THE WAY das ist deutsche geschichte!!! Das gehört nach DEUTSCHLAND!!!! Ist unser EIGENTUM!! Da sind DEUTSCHE SOLDATEN GEFALLEN!! if this was an u.s or english tank it would be stay in there country!!! gebt es zurück!! Es gehört nach deutschland!!! Frechheit !!! Pfui!!!

Warum hat mephisto ein surfbrett?? Das ist absoluter quautsch!! Wie und warum sollte ein deutscher soldat um 1910 ein teufel mit surfbrett zeichnen?? Oder ist rs ein bügelbrett??????? 😂 sorry aber entweder seh ich falsch oder es ist absoluter käse!!!

The art on it look like a devil carrying a surf board.

Believe only 20 were made and wasn’t much of a priority for the Germans. They had over double the captured British tanks to use. All the materials had to be taken from scrap yards, scuttled ships etc. There is a really good book in the museum store.

I too used to climb all over Mephisto when I was a kid and it was at the old museum.

As a child we used to climb into it at the old museum

You can't have it back Germany...love it..

When Germany build really shitty tanks. But they learned quickly.

Curious what each of the 18 crew were responsible for. I can account for 10-11 on the guns alone with 5 gunners and 5-6 assistant gunners,a driver or 2,what were their stations?

Overall, in functional terms, 'a rubbish tank'!

Ah, Mephisto. Sung about by Kanonenfieber as a useless, worthless hunk of helpless steel!

The 26th. Battalion was a Brisbane unit. It's commander Robinson was an alumnus of King's College, University.of Qld. THE Robinson Room at the College memorializes all Kingsmen who served in WWI and II. Mephisto was sent to Australia, but when the ship docked in Brisbane, it was claimed as the 26th's Booty of War. and offloaded at the old Pinkenba Wharves where cranes of sufficient capacity to unload steam engines were located. Thence the movement with Town council steam road traction engines to Bown Hills location Of the "old Exhibition" ( Museum) Building. ( along with a collection of Boer Artillery and a Complete Wheeled Krupp ( Maxim) Pom-pom ( 37mm).

Excellent, that is a rare tank.

I like your style. Aus armour museum in Cairns is remarkable and their KZbin channel is excellent.

Rarer than Little Willie? Yes the A7V is the last of it's kind but Little Willie is the first tank of all and a unique prototype.

This isn't a tank. It's mobile bunker.

The Army Armor Center at Ft. Moore south of Atlanta has a couple of rarities; an Initial Tiger I and the hydrostatic drive Pz.Kpfw IV prototype.

with regards the crew there were up to 4 runners, what makes this tank even more rarer is the fact it was one of two that were originally made as a female version with only machine guns as armament. Then it was converted to a male version and it was the only one that survived battle, all others were scrappaed. the museum has a pocket book and large hard cover book on the Mephisto available online and in their book shop.

I recomend the visit. I went there with my daughter a couple of years ago when visting relatives. This tank was the one that got me interested in tanks and becoming a tank nut when I was 10 years old living in Brisbane. Back then it use to be in a inclosure with a roof near the Easter show grounds.

Nice video Herb, amazing that Australia has the only survivor of the A7V from WW1. I have the book on Mephisto very interesting read, also has a fold out diagram in the back with all the specs of this beast.

Great video

Thank you for this. I bought a set of sprues for the M5 Stuart that was missing its crew figures as well as the instructions. Was going to build it buttoned up anyway, so the crew was no loss. But I was stymied as to how to build it. Your walkthrough was brilliant. Unfortunately, the headlamp next to the hull mounted machine gun flew off the sprue when I cut it. And despite hearing it hit the floor, I cannot find it. So now, I have an M5a1 Stuart cyclops.

It's a big APC... ?

55 years ago I used to play all over this thing when it was outside in front of the old QLD museum. My sister would sit and read a book while I played war inside the tank…. Sometimes other kids would show up and we’d all play together and we’d crawl all over it. Good times for little blokes