The 'reinforcements' you refer to, inside the roof, are actually the 'tracks' for the manual loading cranes that lifted the massive rocket ammunition from the racks and into the breach of the launcher - with the assistance of a loading trestle [missing].
@Blackjack23592 жыл бұрын
I have also been there back in 1986. Then I went to the German Armor school as a guest of them while I was an instructor on the M1/M1A1 tank in Vilseck, Germany. Very nice museum indeed.
@next2lastmohican2 жыл бұрын
Andy your channel keeps getting better and better! Now you're giving the Chieftain a run for his money!
@steveo46012 жыл бұрын
I'm not seeing any cup holders..😀
@lav25og833 ай бұрын
I'm not seeing any floorplates.
@TheSlugstoppa2 жыл бұрын
I never knew that the Casemate was just sat on top of the hull and bolted into place. those gaps were huge. What a 'Lash up' affair it was. Thanks for posting.
@ModelNerd2 жыл бұрын
Wow Andy, what a great opportunity! Thanks for sharing it with us - a fantastic video as always :)
@MikeUSA672 жыл бұрын
My thoughts exactly!
@michaelsommers23562 жыл бұрын
You forgot the "Oh no, the tank's on fire" bit.
@sferguson11302 жыл бұрын
What an awesome opportunity. Seeing this stuff in person, when you spend so many hours looking at them as scale models, gives you such an appreciation for how menacing they would be, heading in your direction. Not to mention, loads of admiration, for these soldiers ( regardless of the country ), and the life they lived and/or lost, while occupying these cramped quarters
@jvcpaints2 жыл бұрын
This is a great museum. I spent so much money at the gift shop. lol. The city is cool too. The street names are like Zeppelin Strasse, Bismarck Strasse.
@thomasmccaskill51972 жыл бұрын
Awesome and the 2nd one was in Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland they might of moved it to Fort Knoxs into there museum
@allendail95622 ай бұрын
The one in the video is the one that was at Aberdeen Proving Grounds it was sent back to Germany in the mid to late 60s or early 70s. It was the only Sturmtiger that was in U.S..
@allgood67602 жыл бұрын
Thanks Andy I love your passion.. cheers from down under 👍🇳🇿
@manfredcarls52422 жыл бұрын
Hi Andy, welcome in Lower Saxony ! 👋😁..have a nice time in “DasPanzermuseum“ !!! .kind regards ! 👍😎
@chriskinney89472 жыл бұрын
Can't wait to see the diorama you make for this one
@scottmccloud90292 жыл бұрын
Awesome Andy. Looks a great deal larger in 1 to 1 scale. Massive. Thanks for sharing with us.
@creightonleerose582 Жыл бұрын
3:28 thats what the PanzerWaffe crewmen referred to as "Zee Shower Facilities/Hand Washing Station"....;)
@eugenemonasterio20242 жыл бұрын
Could this be a clue that you are planning a 1/16 scale version? Please say YES!
@garypankratz93522 жыл бұрын
Oh great. I have around 40 car models to build and now thanks to you I want to build some armor! Thanks a lot Andy!
@americanpatriot24222 жыл бұрын
Outstanding video and presentation. I'm glad you had the opertunity to both see and go inside this very rare tiger.
@firefox31872 жыл бұрын
The gun was originally for harbour defence from submarine attacks
@daveybyrden39362 ай бұрын
Those two big air filters at 5:05 are not original German equipment, they are Sherman tank air filters. This vehicle came to the Allies with its own filters damaged I believe.
@chrisstorch13372 жыл бұрын
Thanks Andy.. nice weld and flame-cut reference for a future project
@stephenharrington5282 жыл бұрын
thanks for for sharing what a great experience so much info nice one Andy Steve
@ryanbruner89282 жыл бұрын
Thanks,Andy!
@donfrandsen77782 жыл бұрын
Andy thats totally bad ass!!! Wow!! So cool !!! Excellence!!! Andy you out did yourself with this view and video really incredible!!
@patrickcanter28312 жыл бұрын
VERY cool Andy. Thanks!
@wotenmituns142 жыл бұрын
Awesome Andy. Been waiting for this.
@davidcole3332 жыл бұрын
I liked seeing the still photos. Very helpful.
@johnburger8762 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing. I prefer Tamiya kits, having someone say this is better than Tamiya makes it all the more interesting to build it. I'm on a tight budget I hope it's decently price that I can afford it. Can't wait when you tell us it's on the shelf. I used to use only Model Master's paint was quite disappointed when it was discontinued. I now use Tamiya paints.
@WhataboutTRUTH2 жыл бұрын
Many Thanks for sharing Andy. 👍👍👏👏👏👏
@MANU-dw9dh2 жыл бұрын
Nice video tks
@jerryvolpini79872 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the walk-around and reference photos, just so many detailing ideas! Any plans for the museum to get this thing running?
@paulspinner16792 жыл бұрын
Nice video Good exhaust colour reference 👍
@b747501 Жыл бұрын
i had the privilege of going inside this vehicle about 35yrs or so ago, just looking at the photos' i took, most of the marks are still the same, back then it did not have fenders or side skirts, i took a roll of 24 photos inside but only a few turned out, no digital pic's back then :( i am pretty sure it was in Koblenz museum back then as i was able to go inside a couple of tanks there but not in Munster
@sammy_dog2 жыл бұрын
why do I get the feeling that this will be the next AHHQ 1/16th scale kit
@chugg5352 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Andy. very interesting to watch.
@madaprak2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Andy!
@Javdoc2 жыл бұрын
Jesus, that must have been a wild experience inside there when it fired. Amazed that shoddy bolt-on superstructure didn't just lift right off. 😆
@chriswegje2 жыл бұрын
1/16 scale sturmtiger with interior made by andy hobby headquarters incoming?
@MB-oc1nw2 жыл бұрын
Nice 1:1 scale Sturmtiger. Must have gone through some plastic cement putting that thing together
@jimplaysric2 жыл бұрын
"Let's get started!" 😄
@tannerjones96872 жыл бұрын
Thank you Andy 👍
@mathiaslarsen55472 жыл бұрын
I've been at Munster Panzermuseum a few years back and I must say it is a great museum, I highly recommend it if you are in the vicinity
@kenhorne56502 жыл бұрын
Love to see the other tanks there. They have a model of this one?
@jhoodfysh2 жыл бұрын
Very interesting video. Thank you.
@itwaslikethatwhenigothere2 жыл бұрын
Your timing with this video was perfect for me Andy, I'm currently building one. Do you know if it was actually found in the field in this colour, or was that just done by the museum? In some places you can see the three tone camouflage underneath, however I'm curious to know weather it was repainted in just dunklegelb when it was converted to a sturm.
@Andrew-se4tg2 жыл бұрын
Hey Andy! When are the 1/16 jeeps shipping out!
@AndysHobbyHeadquarters2 жыл бұрын
They just showed up and are starting to go out today
@Andrew-se4tg2 жыл бұрын
@@AndysHobbyHeadquarters ok sounds good thanks!👍
@steve13152 жыл бұрын
Great video Andy welljell
@Emergenttheory10 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing
@Danfunnyman12342 жыл бұрын
Inside the Andys hatch?
@od14522 жыл бұрын
There are a few Munsters in northern Germany. .... Where is this museum now?
@od1452 Жыл бұрын
@@powertothebauer296 I know.. I speak German...
@Absaalookemensch2 жыл бұрын
Tanks for the video.
@gnesthanatat2898 Жыл бұрын
How can you drive a tank if you can’t see outside
@vgovger437310 ай бұрын
It needed thick armor to protect from return fire, this tank gave away it's position easily and was to slow to run for cover.
@ralphe58422 жыл бұрын
The range of these is quite short and they were to attack at close range in urban area
@4fun19572 жыл бұрын
Nice! I've been to the Panzer Museum, how did you get permission to go on / in the vehicles? After hours?
@shanehodgetts40872 жыл бұрын
Awesomeness..😉👍
@Sreven1992 жыл бұрын
Had to do a double take to make sure this wasn't a chieftain video
@THROTTLEPOWER2 жыл бұрын
Very cool! 🙂
@bobbymccourt6794 Жыл бұрын
We NEED a 1/16 Sturm! 😉👍🏻🙏🏻
@michaeldenney24442 жыл бұрын
Awesome! How did they handle that huge ammunition?
@jacobakana56492 жыл бұрын
The ammunition was stored more or less next to the loading rack so that a shell just had to be lowered a few feet onto some rollers, and then shoved into the breech. To clarify, the one in the video is missing it’s loading rack, it would be where Andy is standing at the beginning.
@wwiiinplastic47122 жыл бұрын
To add to Mr Akana's reply, additional ammo was carried in a vehicle adapted for the purpose and reloaded using the small crane assembly atop the Sturmtiger. There was, after all, only so much room in the casemate and those rounds are very large.
@brinsonharris9816 Жыл бұрын
The racks carried 12 rounds, but I’ve read they usually also set out with a round in the breech and another in the loading tray for a max of 14 rounds. The crane and cable look like there was still a lot of heavy lifting by the crew to get ready for combat and to fire and reload the gun, and several were abandoned intact after expending the 14 rounds. Either no fuel, infamous Tiger breakdowns or the crew knew there would be no resupply. I think the other surviving Sturmtiger is in the Russian Kubinka armor museum, which also has an incomplete Maus. Like the Jagdtiger, it had 2 loaders. Must have been very cramped with those huge rounds.
@JasperJokerII2 жыл бұрын
It's not the 1/16 Sherman but ok, I'll watch
@nonamesplease62882 жыл бұрын
I didn't find the German cats to be as big in real life as I expected them to be. But then again, I'm used to big modern tanks, not Shermans and Cromwells.
@MikeUSA672 жыл бұрын
Two weeks ago I stood beside a King Tiger (and touched it!!!) - and I was awestruck! It was amazingly big and menacing.
@JazzJaRa2 жыл бұрын
King Tiger is taller than a Leopard 2, so they are higher, maybe not longer. However a King Tiger looks a lot more massive than a modern tank like Abrams or Leopard just because you can clearly see the sheer thickness of the armor.
@bricatmaximus77892 жыл бұрын
Ok, now let’s get busy reproducing this in 1/16 scale!!!!
@kiethpederson75582 жыл бұрын
Cannot imagine being inside one of these during the war shells rounds nades coming at you everywhere Or even a ball gun turret sitting inside one of those
@BMPiercing8 ай бұрын
"crew knocked out"
@Stikkzz2 жыл бұрын
the gun was a depth charge launcher to take out submarines
@karlshaw43472 жыл бұрын
Wow what a beast
@markfergerson21452 жыл бұрын
Have to admit it's kind of heartbreaking to look at details that simply cannot be accurately reproduced in scale models. The torch cuts on the frontal armor, easy. The welds not so much. On models that have any at all they look like nicely "stacked nickels" but here look more like a tangle of spaghetti. And those circular locking pins welded in are never seen molded in kits afaik, and trying to scratch them...
@Stikkzz2 жыл бұрын
1:15 that's left
@randomnickify2 жыл бұрын
This things weren't that good, it was designed to destroy buildings but could barely hit them, really crapy accuracy. Edit: wow, that gap is insane, I would not wana fight inside it :)
@ernestchoi44642 жыл бұрын
good video. You should check out The Chieftain KZbin videos. Goes way more in depth of tanks and its history
@AnthropoidOne2 жыл бұрын
No.....HE wrote that....The Creature...Mozart (paraphrasing from memory🤣)
@para13242 жыл бұрын
👍👏
@MyRetroJourney2 жыл бұрын
I don't get why they gave it this massive armor plate at the front. Complete waste of steel.
@JazzJaRa2 жыл бұрын
Because it had to drive very close to it's target. It was made for clearing Bunkers and fortified positions. So it needed to be able to withstand anti tank weapons.
@danielbauer591211 ай бұрын
Haha, BiG cAnNoN gO bOoM
@DrWhom2 жыл бұрын
And while you were there you did not notice one single time how Germans pronounce _Sturmtiger_ ?
@statoilbensin21902 жыл бұрын
Maybe your next model kit will be 1/16th Sturmröse tiger. Takom might like the idea.
@jordanlongley3499 Жыл бұрын
Nazi Germany were so ahead of there time when it came to tanks and weapons
@elucidator22 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the close up of the sturmtiger, I am a bit disappointed in your amount of knowledge you had regarding the vehicle but I will assume that you didnt know in advance that you would have the opportunity to make a video on this particular vehicle. Also, the primary function of a modeller is to mimic reality. Thus you could be a modeller without really knowing the subject technically. Unfortunately modellers tend to be technically minded and knowing functions and features can help to make more realistic models. As a show and tell video goes, this one tends more towards the showing. I could spot most of your mistakes and omission fortunately so that I could get some value from the footage. I just wonder what more you could have taken footage of had you not been overwhelmed by the interior like you were.
@wwiiinplastic47122 жыл бұрын
Did you notice he was talking about the right side of the vehicle but was showing the left?
@elucidator22 жыл бұрын
@@wwiiinplastic4712 always difficult to know if the video is mirrored or not
@wwiiinplastic47122 жыл бұрын
@@elucidator2 Well, that might be true if it were not for the driver's visor being on the side he called right, when it is located on the left. Start at 1:10 and watch/listen carefully.
@jerryvolpini79872 жыл бұрын
@@elucidator2 Not sure how many of Andy's videos you have watched but he does not, as a general rule, have in-depth knowledge of all the subjects he reviews. Remember, he owns a hobby shop that sells all kinds of models, not just military subjects. Besides, more casual modelers won't care and experienced modelers will have that knowledge to start. Remember, this is not the Chieftain channel, where they have regular access to the vehicles they review, as well as extensive reference libraries 👍
@elucidator22 жыл бұрын
@@jerryvolpini7987 you either didnt read my comment properly or you didnt read it at all
@collinmccallum2 жыл бұрын
love the tracks! checkout my videos if you get the chance. wish i was there!