Modeling videos on You Tube

[Daniel C]

I have been watching this series of videos on building the 1/700 IJN Battleship Kongo on YouTube.
Nice, except it is in Japanese.
Apparently, Fuji TV has a 2 hour modeling (weekly?) show, this is the link to Kongo and a list of the videos I have sen listed.... so far.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4eJEiTqp28

There is even a woman modeler who builds a Tamiya, 1/35th type 97 tank, her display is..... ummm, different!

Trumpeter, 1/350 USS Lexington CV2 6 parts.

Dragon, 1/35th Battle of the Bulge King Tiger

Dragon, 1/35th 352nd Volksgrenedier Division (figures)

Tamiya, 1/350th Battleship Yamato and diorama 6 parts.

2 different Dragon, 1/35th scale Sd. kfz 251 Aufs C

Dragon, 1/35th Sherman Firefly Vc and Tamiya 1/35th Tiger I

Revell, (1/72?) Pz Kpfw III Aush L and diorama.

Tristar, 1/35th Panzer IV Ausf D

Trumpeter, MI-24p Hind F 6 parts

Doyusha, Himeji Castle 6 parts

Revell, 1/72scale PT-109 and diorama 6 parts

Tamiya, 1/32scale F-15E Strike Eagle 6 parts

Revell, 1/72scale Type VIIC Wolfpack Submarine. 2 parts

............ and the list keeps growing, the video's I am watching are being uploaded by some named "Sleepyfella" on You tube. They can found by going to YouTube and using the search box at the YouTube page, type in the company and kit name...

[Daniel C]

For those of you interested I went to CNet.com and found a program called "youtube downloader" (in the downloads tab) that is free and will download web videos, even convert the files to many different types of formats.
I am now in the process of downloading the fuji tv modeling show videos and the Tamiya modeling videos....
.............. just need to learn Japanese!

[Daniel C]

Yep, I have now tried the "youtube downloader" from CNET.com
Easy to use and works great.
The modeling videos I have been downloading are in the .flv format (?) and it is nice that the youtube downloader also has a file converter with it.
So, I have been converting the .flv format into .wmf files, you can choose about 5 different formats to convert too. Very handy.