Airfix Sherman Firefly Vc Tank 1/72 Scale New Tool 2021 Unboxing A02341

[@hueyJoe135]

Another great video and it looks like another great tank from Airfix. I was lucky enough to meet Joe Ekins back in the 1990's when he came to visit our model club in Northampton a great guy who said he was just doing his job. Keep up the great work.

[@MOS6510Models]

Thats a pretty cool meet up you had there.. Thanks for sharing

[@hueyJoe135]

@@MOS6510Models I'm from Northampton and that's where Joe was from. After the war he became a shoe maker.

[@jackdawson725]

Good review keep up the good work

[@MOS6510Models]

Thanks, will do!

[@kirovskiecrab1365]

I thought the machine gun in the hull was removed and a blanking plate was installed on the firefly for extra ammunition stowage yet the instructions tell you to install a hull machine gun.

[@MOS6510Models]

good shout..

[@alessiodecarolis]

Right, I remember the Italian army had some Hybrid tanks in the'50s, but normally Fireflies didn't have any hull mg, they've only four men.

[@Reactordrone]

Step 44 onwards show the blanking plate which is included on the sprue so just a fault with the step 43 drawing.

[@wigglesend]

Nice review. Brings back memories of building these types of tank as a kid👍

[@MOS6510Models]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@zirconindustries]

very nice.....if Oddball is in command of this tank it may be a standard Sherman with a 75mm gun and some pipe added to make it look like a 90mm....😎🌲☕

[@MOS6510Models]

Nice idea..

[@wigglesend]

Probably be firing paint as well 😂

[@plymouth5714]

And the funny thing is faking your standard Sherman to look like a Firefly actually made you a bigger target! The Germans soon came to realize that the Firefly could take out a Panther or Tiger just as easily as either of them could take out a Sherman so both the German tank gunners and anti-tank crews would always try to knock them out first!

[@MrPlutoUSA]

Nice Firefly kit!

[@MOS6510Models]

It sure is!

[@shaunsmith1825]

Hot spoon lol. Matchbox kits had the best tracks, a square tab locked into a square hole, no glue or hot cutlery reqd. Also they came w diorama bases. Reboxed as revell.

[@MOS6510Models]

Agreed.. Diorama bases made the matchbox kits worth the money

[@MOS6510Models]

Hi.. Congratulations. You have won this model.. can you contact me on Instagram please so i can send it to you. Cheers. Mos

[@MOS6510Models]

Hi.. Congratulations. You have won this model.. can you contact me on Instagram or email please so i can send it to you. Cheers. Mos

[@calmingmindmeditations9628]

I really enjoyed your playlist. Thanks for sharing.

[@MOS6510Models]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@pegging640]

I fondly remember the first few months of 2020, and its a long story. SO, i live in belgium and model shops are a rare sight here, but there is one in a city about 30 min away. Its not really a shop its just a dude with 2 rooms full of kits and his wife as caissiere. I would think about what i'd buy all week until saturday when i would sit on the bus for an hour to get there and spend 2 hours there and buy a kit. I'd always try to get as much out of my pocket money as i could. UNTILL march 15'th the last time i went there. I was alone looking at the shelves, the only customer at the checkout and the only one on the bus home. And ever since then i've had a big model shop shaped hole in my hart. Anyway i want that firefly.

[@MOS6510Models]

This pandemic has been harsh on all of us.. Take care

[@cnfuzz]

@@MOS6510Models where is the time that newspaper agents sold kits as well , i remember i bought lindberg b58 , monogram and revell uss saratoga at a newsagent wich all were pretty big kits

[@Runnyoutdoors]

Fantastic video great commentary.. Keep rocking the content out. 🌟🔥🌟

[@MOS6510Models]

Thank you my friend. Enjoying your live streams :)

[@martie4796]

so i found your chanel through the top opening/folding box. but when i looked at my small stash i realised i had no top opening boxes to try it on. so if i win i promise that that will be the first thing i do! so story time: as a kid i went to this toy store and there were these revell kits and i was just mesmerized by their boxarts. i didnt build models then i came for lego but i would always look at those boxarts, because they always told this cool story. but the box i thought was the coolest was this round tank called a sherman firefly. but when i started building models the firefly was gone so i never built it. so i bought a corsair one off the coolest planes. cheers!

[@MOS6510Models]

Thats such a great story. I think top opening boxes are gonna become the norm for airfix.. exery new kit so far has been with that style of box.. Corsair is a great plane to build..

[@SteveJonesScaleModellingSite]

Great review. Will you be building the kit? Have a great festive period. Looking forward to seeing more of your vids in 2021

[@MOS6510Models]

Thanks, you too!

[@Deep-Red-0]

My first thought was that it might the original kit from the 1960's but with a new turret as they did with the calliope, but after watching this I can see it's defiantly a whole new kit from the ground up and after seeing this I need to get one and have a go with those new tracks

[@MOS6510Models]

Link to buy it in the description :)

[@bigcharliesmodelgarage296]

Great review. Good looking kit. No funny story here. I've never built a tank kit. So have a great day mate. 😊😊😊

[@MOS6510Models]

Thanks, you too!

[@andrealexandresoares3912]

Obrigado por compartilhar amigo! Estava em dúvida em adquirir este modelo. Abraço!

[@MOS6510Models]

agradeço você comentar e assistir o vídeo. Fique seguro

[@rodrigoanunezrivolta9267]

Hello, nice review on a great small subject. Just asking, the pre-assembled tracks are "slide" molded as new Trumpeter, or standard as S-Model? Are the tracks are two different models? Regards, Rodrigo

[@MOS6510Models]

Yes they look like two sets of tracks.. the pre assembled ones are just the T51 block type... the Link and length is the T62 type track.. which is for the firefly

[@therabbitcanada]

Been looking for a Firefly model!!!

[@MOS6510Models]

Link to buy it in the description :)

[@PurpleTube]

That is cool. Have a great day.

[@MOS6510Models]

Thanks, you too!

[@nikbarr1721]

got a few armour kits and the things have individual track links hence why they are still in my stash hee hee.

[@toboldlygosmodelworks1973]

Once upon a time Airfix used to do their own OO Gauge (1/76th Scale) Ready to Run Railway stuff, so a lot of kits were done to tie in with it. It's very long, complicated, convoluted and sometimes confusing story.

[@MOS6510Models]

Theres a lot of history in how and why 1/76 and oo scale is in the range.. Theres some link to esci kits in the mix as airfix tried to buy them

[@mauricewalshe8339]

Looks like they are both in Villers-Bocage :-)

[@MOS6510Models]

good shout... i wonder. Thanks for sharing

[@spinster4000]

The trick to rubber tracks is using tamiya regular cement, the stuff in the orange bottle. Once dried for a total of 24 hours I like to take a hot screwdriver and melt the 4 tiny spins down, it doesnt help for bonding much but it makes it look nice.

[@MOS6510Models]

Great tip! Thanks for the info

[@spinster4000]

@@MOS6510Models np! enjoyed the video, just got tis kit myself

[@cathalmoroney8568]

The other tankers always used to know who was a crew of a sherman firefly as they always had no hair below the beret line because when the shell was being ejected from the gun the sulphur being released would burn there hair off

[@MOS6510Models]

Thanks for the info.. brought a smile to my face

[@chaz4546]

Funny how its called a firefly and the box art shows the back on fire 🤣

[@MOS6510Models]

Ha,, I didnt notice that until youve pointed it out now lol

[@RAFAEL9GR]

Great video again mate! Well the Firefly took it's name from it's big a$$ muzzle break and the flash it produced when fired. It proved to be so valuable against the German cats after D-day that it was being literally hunted by the Germans, making its crews actively trying to camouflage the 17-pounder gun in order to look like a normal 75mm gun. The funniest I've seen was a picture where the tip of the barrel and the nuzzle break were painted a curious tone of black for that reason. Nice try by Airfix, took them a while, hehe, but I'd really like to build one as it's my favourite M4 variant.

[@MOS6510Models]

I love that sort of historic information. Thanks for sharing

[@RAFAEL9GR]

@@MOS6510Models You're welcome! That's my job anyway. :D

[@erikakurosaka3734]

That Tiger kit has the number 007 on it, it belongs to Michael Wittmann, the famous Tiger ace. The Firefly kit boxart hints a destroyed Tiger in the background, because Michael Wittmann and 4 of his crew was killed by a Firefly, which is probably a subtle nod by Airfix lol Also the second decal of the firefly belongs to the Joe Ekins' Firefly that allegedly landed the shot which killed Wittmann.

[@MOS6510Models]

A proper double then when built.. perfect for a diorama setting

[@islandrc-duke1972]

nice tank kit

[@MOS6510Models]

It sure is

[@nhatotheexplorer]

HELLO SIR NEW FRIEND HERE WATCHING FROM SAUDI ARABIA...FROM PHILIPPINES #RUNNYEGGS

[@MOS6510Models]

hello :)

[@ModellingWeekly]

Great video! Idk if I'm the only one that thinks this lol, but that sprue colour is like vomit green 😂😂

[@MOS6510Models]

its a different plastic to airfix usual releases.. its a lot more flexible think of the hardness of revell and the soft airfix one and its about in the middle

[@ModelMinutes]

Good review! Don’t enter me in your competition though, I have more than enough kits 😂

[@MOS6510Models]

i should do a competition on winning tamiya extra thin just for you lol :)

[@ModelMinutes]

@@MOS6510Models haha! I actually have some now

[@leonardopaintball]

I've built a few 1/35 tanks but definetly my next tank will be 1/72

[@MOS6510Models]

i think airfix is positioning themselves in the 1/72 range

[@leonardopaintball]

@@MOS6510Models I'm finishing my first AIrfix and Im pretty satisfied with the quality. Have a dehavilland meteor and the kit you sent me to build.

[@quinncampbell3716]

knowing me I would be way to lazy to build the tracks

[@MOS6510Models]

and paint inside? lol

[@dmikulec]

Gun metal for tracks!?!?!? They were rubber pads with metal links.

[@MOS6510Models]

hmm good spot

[@skylongskylong1982]

Construction looks suspiciously like the old matchbox firefly model.

[@MOS6510Models]

I would love to see if thats true.. the plastic is very different to the normal plastic airfix uses for their kits

[@ProfessorFoxDrB]

Hello 👋

[@MOS6510Models]

Hello 👋

[@hamishsheinkels1478]

I was playing the firefly in warthunder, I had previously killed a tiger or too and then I got bombed by a freindly plane. Typical

[@MOS6510Models]

ah okies.

[@aidensanders9950]

The Sherman Firefly..... well I could copypaste the wikipedia item now, but I‘ll try to be a bit more elegant there and use my own knowledge..... so the Sherman Firefly was basically the british Sherman of the (hopefully) known american M4. The british literally took that thing and improved it, primarily through building in a QF 17pdr as kind of a response to the stronger german Tiger and Panther tanks, which appeared between '42 and '43 on the european battlefields and were superior to nearly all allied tanks. While the americans developed a completely new tank as response to that, the Pershing, the british just took the M4 (if that was a good idea, keeps an open question, cause the M4 was known as „Tommykocher“ on the german side, which means as much as „tommy boiler“, due to its weak armor and high vulnerability of burning out) as base and mounted their strongest anti-tank weapon on it. It was introduced in 1944 and took already part on the Normandy landings. Even so the Firefly became one of the most famous allied WW2 tanks, mainly because of its effectiveness in combat. Regardless that the tank was mostly sent to combat with untrained crews, the first event took place only 3 days after D-Day, as a Firefly destroyed 5 Panthers in a Row at the french village Norrey-en-Bessin. The next 5 Panthers in a row destroyed by a Firefly were just 5 days later, at the 14th June, near the town Tilly-sur-Seulles. The probably most legendary Sherman Firefly yet was a canadian one. On the 8th August, one Sherman of the 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry A-Squadron (which is quite probably one of the decal options in the kit), destroyed 3 Tiger tanks in a row near Saint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil. One of these Tiger tanks was that of the probably most famous and feared german tank ace Michael Wittmann, who had a total score of 138 destroyed allied tanks, and who was killed there. That‘s literally everything about this tank I know..... all by heart..... okay I admit that I googled the town names and dates^^ Looking forward to win the tank your modeling young talent from Germany, Aiden

[@MOS6510Models]

Thats amazing.. ive copied and pasted it to my info file.. thanks for sharing

[@coling3957]

hmm another video made by a mute... videos are rather more interesting if the person actually speaks... . go buy a microphone or something. it'll help .

[@MOS6510Models]

What do you mean? I speak right the way through it.... did you have the volume turned down??

[@coling3957]

@@MOS6510Models hmm i just rewatched and yes, you do indeed. thats odd. i hadn't touched vid and went straight to another and sound normal...... ok, sorry

[@MOS6510Models]

@@coling3957 no worries bud.. just like and subscribe if you can :) cheers

[@coling3957]

@@MOS6510Models I have. Cheers