It seems I have become a large enough channel for YouTube to offer me “channel Memberships”!

Either that, or they’ve started rolling them out to everyone….

It means I have another way for people to support the channel if they so wish. By going to My channel you now have the option to “JOIN” !

By doing so you get access to member only posts, r name listed in my ‘Thank you’ credits, and get a special colour and icon when you comment on my videos and livestreams. No more will your comment be lost in the herd! Stand out from the crowd! Etc…..

There are also a couple of special emoji type icons you can use in chat. I hope to add more as time goes by, but I’m not very artistic!

So, pop over to Gross Models and see about signing up from as little as 99p a month!

You are hereby requested to vote on my next build.

There are 4 kits I have on hand, take a look then go visit my Youtube page to choose which you would like me to do next!

GrossModels YouTube Community page

Votes close just before my next Warhamster stream (22/11/20)

Not loads of entries to this competition, But someone has to win!

I’ve put them all in order, so we can keep track of things while we get closer……

Chefhawk 17:45 31/11/20
Modelmaking Mayhem: 15/12/20
David Foxx: 20:00 17/12/20
James T : 25/12/20
Ian M. G. Thompson: 20:10 31/12/20
Shane Youngs: 15:08 14/1/21
Phil Lewis: 13:00 21/1/21
Redlen08: 28/1/21
Pascal Lieverse: 6:00 1/2/21
Candygramformongo: 12:34 7/2/21


Good luck!

Ok may not post often, but I’d rather not just put up stuff that nobody would read…..

But, I thought it was worth mentioning I have finally got a video done that isn’t a livestream or a partwork!

Part 7 of the Baneblade build is now up for public consumption. In it I finish the basic painting of the tank, and leave it ready for weathering.

It’s available here: https://youtu.be/ajl9yzJlKwE and the rest of the series is in the playlist.

I haven’t actually built a “proper” model for ages.

I’ve been doing the midweek makings, sort of modelmaking lite, for a while now but I haven’t felt the desire to actually do a real kit.

So, with a new Hero figure being released last weekend I thought I’d have a go.

I decided not to film the build, because filming minis is tough, and I still wasn’t sure I was in the mood. But I have documented the build in pictures.

I present : “Ripper”

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I will make another post when I get around to doing the painting, hopefully in a week or 2.

Today marks 3 years since I uploaded the first video to the Gross Models YouTube channel.

I like to think that I have grown and improved over those years, with the quality of my video and production hopefully getting better and making watching easier and more fun!

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I hope you’ve enjoyed at least some of my videos over the last 3 years.

Here’s to many more!

As lockdown has eased a bit and we start to return to work, I have eased up on the live-streams.

My new regular pattern is eModels on Monday, “Building stuff” on Wednesday, An Evening with on Thursday, and Warhamster every 2 weeks on Sunday (alternating with Ted)

On the Wednesday stream I will be continuing the Wooden Wednesday theme, but also doing Lego and Nano block kits. This week is the turn of Lego, and I have a little 3 in 1 dinosaur kit kindly donated by QuanoMan.

Next week is back to wood, then some more of the Nano dog the week after.

As ever, you can find my upcoming streams on the YouTube page, YouTube.com/GrossModels , but tonight’s direct link is: Here

I’ve been spending a lot of time playing around with setting and things for the many, many live-streams I’ve been doing recently, and now it’s almost time for me to go back to work I think I have things setup just about right!

As you may know I use a Streamdeck to Control most of my streams. I can switch inputs, scenes, play files, start and stop streaming, almost everything. But it all takes setting up and pressing buttons to make it happen.

Except now it doesn’t.
I have been able to work several of the buttons into “multi use” buttons, so one press starts a sequence of events in action.
Before I had one to start the stream, one to change to a start video, several to send messages to the chat, more to switch to a stream view, etc.
now I have a single button that should, hopefully do it all.
One press to go from being off air all the way to starting the “proper” stream with me on screen starting the show.

23 separate actions from one press. Should make the pre-show a little less stressful.
I’ll find out on Wednesday when I try it all out! Wish me luck!

After yesterday’s announcement it seems I will he remaining in lockdown for around another 3 weeks, so that means my lockdown live-streams will continue for a little longer!

Join me on Tuesdays for building my Nanobrick London skyline, Wednesdays for Wooden Wednesday and building the Model Aviator, and Friday for more Lego kits.

Obviously things can change as we go through this pandemic together, so I will be posting the video links for the week ahead on Mondays, and let you know when anything changes.

Thank you for your continued support, stay safe, wash your hands, and above all try to enjoy yourselves.