TheJustReaper – Minecraft Modern Warfare Build Tutorial: Leopard 2A7

Hello everybody and welcome back another video today we’re gonna be doing the uh german main battle tank leopard 2 a7 now the leopard 2 a7 was requested a little while ago and uh i think i put off the tutorial itself actually a bit uh too long

But it’s finally here and you know for those of you who noticed i took a bit of a break as well i’m not not completely by my own using i did have a really bad cold for a little bit and then um sort of clearing up after that

So once i was like actually clear and ready to get back to recording i uh you know would start doing the videos again plus i didn’t have anything recorded like just the builds themselves let alone the audio and doing what i’m doing right now still takes acquire a quiet environment and i don’t

Always have that quiet a quiet environment to do it but right now i do and so today we’re going to be doing the 2a7 now to clarify something that uh people don’t often catch is that people confuse often confuse the leopard 2a7 with the leopard 2a7 plus

Now there’s a difference between the two because lever 2a7 looks more like a lever to a6 or a leopard 2a5 they have that same overall look um but the leopard 2a7 plus has like the extra era armor uh i think it’s it also has like a remote controlled

Turret on the top for roman controlled hmg but the leopard 2a7 standard is more of a plane main battle tank rather than all the era and whatnot and right now i’m actually doing this tutorial fairly relaxed because i have a new computer chair because before this i was sitting in

Like a wooden chair that’s like three decades old just a kitchen chair that’s what i’ve been doing my work and the whole time trust me it hurts the back after a little bit of time but now i’m just sort of chilling here laying back in my chair

And just i’m going to talk to you guys about the 2×7 today so the leopard 2a7 um what’s the sort of stuff that they changed about it well we’re going to read a little bit about it from a website which i reference quite frequently when i’m making especially modern vehicles

Uh the the website’s simply called militarytoday.com and um i can i guess i’ll leave a link to this i guess i’ll leave a link to this in the description to this specific uh page for the leopard 2a7 now on this page in the image that they’re displaying they’re showing the leopard 2a7 plus

So it’s a little bit you know everyone gets confused but they do say in the description for this image you know leopard 27 mbt has additional armor and is intended for urban warfare which is said right below the image so they themselves are still aware of the real the

The reality of the vehicle not coming with that era standard so um another thing to mention about the 2a7 that i built is that i literally just took my previous two leopard twos that use that you’ve seen uh leopard to a which one did i do last time left 25 i

Think i basically took my leopard to a5 and updated the heck out of it because leopard 2a5 i built it before we switched to this version of minecraft i think it’s 1.6 and i’m on again i don’t really look at it all that much to know which one i’m on but

The other leopards are older and using outdated blocks so this one was just sort of a update build if anything at all i’m really happy with it i’m really pleased with the amount of new blocks i get to work with um that goes for pretty much everything i’m building now i love it

And of course minecraft is still coming out with all these new updates with new blocks that i could be using but i don’t really care i’m content with what i’ve got right now i can’t keep updating because i have mods that i uh do need for you know quality of life when

I’m doing this it’s when i’m doing these sorts of things this is a big tank yard so things like voxel map i like to have to be able to get back and forth and teleport to different waypoints all that good stuff uh but i want to read

This article now on the leopard 2a7 to you just so you kind of get a grasp of what it is for those of you who may not know now for those of you that know that don’t even know the leopard 2 as a whole maybe you’re new to tanks

The leopard 2 platform has been around since the 70s 70s it was developed alongside the us’s m1 abrams which pretty much everyone knows everyone knows the abrams especially if you’re american but this was sort of the product of a joint project between the germans the west germans and uh no just the

Germans and the us this was a development project where the us and the germans wanted to make a a main battle tank which i guess could be the standard main battle tank for both countries so out of that came what the us would know as the mbt-70 and the germans would

Give us the conf ponce 70. i have both in this tank yard as well and they’re going to get their own tutorials soon as well or hopefully soon we’ll see how they will see where they position the list of priorities but when that project actually failed

Uh both countries sort of went their own ways those still taking hints from each other they sort of went their own ways germans were like okay we want this but the americans are like okay we want this and so that’s how you got the leopard 2 and you got the abrams

Both are products of that failed project but you know i guess you can say it’s good that that the mbt 70 program failed because if it didn’t you wouldn’t have these vehicles we have no or maybe you would through another course of events but i think i can i think i’m happy

Happier knowing that it failed and that we ended up getting the abrams and the leopard so that’s where the leopard two sort of came from and then it’s just been evolving steadily over the decades up till now and so the leopard 2a7 is germany’s most up-to-date variant in serbia and in service

And other countries are using the leopard 2a7 as well like other countries have ordered it um i know hungary ordered the leopard 287 plus variant alongside the leopard 2a4 which they ordered i think denmark’s getting some and uh there’s other countries but those are the two that i can think of at this

Immediate moment it’ll probably mention it here so i’m gonna read this now and stop like putting this off so um you know sit down and relax and let’s read this so this is the article by military today leopard the leopard 287 main battle tank was developed by german christmas wegman in cooperation

With the german army it is a proposed upgrade package for existing mbts now i want to stop right there note that this is not like a brand new vehicle this is a upgrade to the previous leopards it’s just an upgrade package to the fleet kind of like how the us didn’t make new

Abrams so they yes but no they didn’t like make a whole new batch of abrams when they were done with the m1 and moving on to the m1a1 or then from the m1a went to the m1a2 they’re just upgrade packages in the most in the in most cases and that’s what the

Leopard 2a7 is just the upgrade package anyway uh carrying on here uh upgrade packaging existing amputees it was first revealed in 2010 it is a further development of the german 2a6 of the german leopard 2a6mb tape it includes some subsystems of the leopard 2 piece support operation variant the

Leopard 2a7 is intended for urban warfare low intensity conflicts as well as conventional military operations currently it is one of the best main battle tanks in the world now i’m going to stop there for a second i i love i love military today but the the issue when people

The issue with me when people say you know best in the world of something is that it’s never true now any german viewers in here that may be prideful of the leper too i’m not i’m not don’t get me wrong the leopard 2 is a great vehicle and in my own

Personal opinion i think it’s the best main battle tank in the world but you need to be careful when you make those sorts of comments because every vehicle is suited to a certain role the leopard is suited to its roles whereas a t90 is suited to its roles

Or shall or dare i say the t-14 armada is suited to its roles but rarely ever do they all perform with the same doctrine in mind because every army has its own doctrine and how it prefers its military to operate and the leopard is built around the desires of the german bundeswehr

Just like all german tanks in existence ever have they’re built around the doctrine or there are some more than others but you get the idea um so it’s it kind of rubs me wrong when i hear someone say this is the best tank in the world sure maybe statistically maybe you know

It had a really good combat run maybe so few were lost in combat but that’s down to a lot of different aspects to take into consideration like your combat environment the foe you’re facing what kind of tactics are they employing just to say that oh you know so few of

These vehicles were lost does not really account for much unless it is in you know really comparable situations to things like i don’t know an abrams you have to you have to take that part into consideration now since this video is actually shorter especially shorter than the challenger

I’m going to just keep going here and sort of end my rant there but again you got to be careful with what you say about what is the best and what is not everyone’s entitled to their opinion i love the leopard but you can’t say it’s the best keep your eyes open

And be observant anyway um german army plans to upgrade about 50 to 150 leopard 2 tanks to the first 287 standard german army first or ordered a first batch of 20 mbts upgraded from existing german army leopard 2 a6 tanks first german leopard 2a7 tanks were delivered to the german army in 2014.

This tank also received orders from the export customers in 2011 germany agreed to sell more than 200 of these main battle tanks to saudi arabia in 2013 qatar ordered a ordered 62 of these amputees these are known as number two a7q the leopard 2a7 is a modular

Upgrade package so other leopard 2 tanks can be upgraded to the standard combat systems can be optimized depending on customer requirements and how much further does this go this does have a bit of a length to it so i’m not going to read the whole thing because you kind of got the gist

Of what this is it is a upgrade package to existing leopards but uh let me see if there’s like anything worth picking out here um yeah that’s a little bit different so i have to be careful where i’m actually reading in this because i can see that they’re

Getting some things mixed up with the leopard 2a7 plus like in one section here it mentions the to a 12.7 millimeter machine gun mounted on the top of the vehicle which is not something i’ve seen on the standard 2a7 uh but rather on the 287 plus

So whatever i’ll leave the link in the description to this article and for those of you that want to read it you can read it yourself but uh going back to my own leopard 2a7 i tried my best to make this thing look very pretty like as you can

See here in the clip i’m uh like i’m putting uh leaves under underneath on the barrel of the gun and personally i really like how in recent time i’ve been taking the liberty of customizing my vehicles in my own way decorating them in whatever ways i can just improve upon

The base model this is especially needful for vehicles that when i build them may not have the most natural detail by me replicating it so if it doesn’t have the most natural surface detail then it is almost a necessity to take the liberty of making your own uh updates or

Taking the liberty of adding your own customizations kind of like how i have these things hanging off the side of the tank or the leaves hanging off the barrel or even all those mud flaps i think hanging off the front of the hull itself and that’s something i pride myself in is

Making these vehicles look beautiful and translating them as best as i can into minecraft and you know that’s just something i kind of want everyone to take into consideration is that replicating doesn’t mean like if you’re if you’re trying to make your own replicas of military vehicles

More particularly on the ground don’t be afraid to experiment and add things that you think look good on it and just to decorate it in a way that makes it appeal and the leopard the leopard 287 when i first built it wasn’t necessarily one of those

Cases but i do it anyway just because it gives it more life i don’t like a a build that is too noisy um visually where there’s too much going on so you have to find that right balance of mixing things together trying to nail the small details like i do

Um you have to differentiate blocks from one another to try to separate different details experiment with different materials in order to um make it look good so that sort of stuff makes so one of the sort of thing that makes tank building a challenge in certain cases for me these days

Back in the day i used to be like making multiple tanks a day now it can take me easily a few days to get um one main battle tank done and granted that’s sort of down to my own uh lack of energy or willingness to do the build sometimes

Because um in the recent time because of the overabundance of requests that i’ve had i’ve been going through this little method of choosing what my next build is that i have to build and construct it not even record it just to construct it so when certain people request a certain

Vehicle if it’s a vehicle i’m kind of like uh about building or it’s a vehicle that i just know i’m not going to look forward to building because maybe a lack of imagery or something if it’s one of those things i’m just sort of turned off by the idea of having to

Build it it’s all that i don’t want to build it i just know the work that’s going to come with me trying to make it if you understand what i’m saying and so what i’ve been doing is i have this whole list of requested builds written down in in windows notepad and

What i do is every time i’m done one i’ll like put a equals done after each name just to you know cut down in the list and then what i’ll do is after every time i finish a build and i’m getting ready to do the next one i

Look at the top of the list and i count down the list i count how many vehicles are left i go into a random number generator online just look up a random number generator on the internet and you can set a minimum number to a maximum number

And so i set the maximum number to be that amount of builds that i have left click the randomize button and whatever the number is that the random number generator gives me uh coordinate to the uh build that i’m going to make and i think that’s a almost like a good

Discipline in a way like it’s it’s a good uh discipline it teaches you to have to get things done and i like it at least i think it’s a bit of a discipline i find it to discipline myself and the leper 2×7 actually was that and it wasn’t that i

Wanted to not it’s not that i didn’t want to do the leopard 287 rather on the contrary because i love leopard but i couldn’t quite get myself to want to do it itself out of everything on the list and so that’s why i give it up to the random number generator these days Um let me see according to the video here all right so in this video it looks like i’m getting ready to start we’re gonna be doing the interior soon so i have a little bit of time left to talk um but yeah that’s that’s how my tank production goes these days

And so it can take me multiple days to get one especially a bigger vehicle done if it’s just something i’m not overly enthusiastic in getting done there will be days i just want to build vehicles that are completely absent from the list of requests just because i want

To do it and i do it anyway um in fact one of the vehicles in this recording session that i did because i where you’re seeing me with doing this leopard i recorded four videos that day and like one of them was something completely absent from the requests lists but something

That i wanted to do and that will eventually show up i think that i should probably be the next upload anyway just if i’m going to upload in the order which i recorded but you know i don’t have a problem with it with with people requesting builds in

Fact i love it because it gives me things to do and it tells me more of like the sort of things that people like to see and it has become rather apparent to me that people really like like uh late cold war uh to modern builds which works fine for me

Because you know i like that uh era these days too i used to only be someone that liked world war ii stuff back in the day when i started i used to just try to stick around that area um but as time has progressed i’ve come to realize i

Really really love doing main battle tanks or you know whatever we can have from this time period i really enjoy it i especially want to start doing more things like swedish uh builds someone did request i built the cv 9120 which is at the end of the swedish light tank line in

War thunder so if you play war thunder you’ll know which one i’m talking about if you don’t know what i’m talking about you’ll end up seeing it anyway but by my doctrine of build making in here if someone requests a variant of a vehicle if i don’t have the base vehicle built

I it i have to get the base vehicle done so how does that work so if someone requests that i build let’s say okay in this case here someone wants me to build the leopard 2a7 like i’m doing here i feel the need to build the standard leopard 2 or in this case

It was leopard 2a4 which is one of the more plain looking versions of the vehicle i felt the desire to build that first and then build upon that so that i know if i can build that version i can find a way to build the next version

And that’s where i go so in the case of the cv 9120 i will need to make the strides for the 90. if we’re going to call it in swedish or streets for done or cb90 combat vehicle i have to build the base streets for down 90

Before i make the streets vote on 120. so that i know that if i can make the base variant i know i can find a way to make the upgraded variant and so that’s how it works for me i need to make base vehicles before i make variants and so

Especially in these cases where people are requesting me to build variants it’s like if this person requests something sometimes i have to end up making five uh three different variants including the one that was requested depending on the circumstance and trust me i’ve done it before and some of them probably have you

Probably haven’t seen yet but they’re coming on their way i have a lot of tanks here so i have no shortage in stuff that i can upload but that’s just a sort of a little bit of an insight into what my life is when it comes to getting bills done and reels

Uh i’ll tell you what i’m really enjoying this new recording style that i’m doing right now because i’m sitting here in this comfy uh chair i have spotify running as i’m talking just to have a little bit of music to listen to so it’s not me in silence and

All the work’s already done i just get to talk to you guys it’s almost like a an opportunity for me to be properly social with you and i enjoy it but i i don’t really know uh what else i can talk about by this point because the video is almost

Over and not a whole lot more for me to talk about that is worth me mentioning so i don’t know what can i talk about aside from the fact that yeah i was sick really sick when i wasn’t uploading for that little while so i needed a bit of a break

To recover from that pretty bad head called mixed with allergies so yeah that went well but i’m very good now trying to get more tanks done trying to get more of this content done and in recent time i’ve been having this increased urge to start doing like war thunder

Content or whatever especially alongside with my friend so i’m probably i may introduce you to my friend link soon um and i may start uploading war thunder content with me and him because typically whenever i’m playing i’m playing with him or maybe i’ll just start uploading content of myself playing it anyway just

To start to bring a a difference in content to this channel because i’ve been doing this since 2016 i think it is and it’s been the same content ever since and you know i i see the steady growth of the channel very steady but slow growth of the

Channel and i’m gonna be completely real with you i’m not looking for that much of growth i’m not after like if i even make it to a thousand subscribers i will be happy let alone anything higher because you look at people like garrett 2×4 he’s the one that’s got the

Community of people that watch these videos and for all i know there’s probably a fair few of you who are loyal garrett subscribers here and i’m just a small fish in a big pond like i’ve said to my friends i’m a bit of i’m just a small fish in a big pond

Trying to make these sorts of things so i have to try to find my own niche in youtube if i’m going to keep actively trying to grow but we’ll see how that goes i do enjoy doing this but purely as a hobby but anyway we’re approaching the end of the video here

I think i’ve said enough i hope you all enjoyed this video just so you get to you know you’ll be seeing a little bit of the wrapping up of the build here i hope you all enjoyed it i hope to see you all again soon if there’s anything you’d like to see

Please leave a comment in the comment section for any builds you’d like to see ground vehicles air vehicles naval vehicles i’m i’m in for it all so leave a comment uh in the description there’s also a link to my discord please come and join come hang out with the rest of the community

You can leave requests there or even talk to me anyways god bless you all i love you all i’ll catch you all later and goodbye