Hobby Boss LWS Part 1 Review and Build

[@richardgrahame5408]

HI Harry,yet another great kit build.I loved the kit, amazing detail.I told my other half, i enjoy your sense of humour alot,nothing is ever boring with your builds or presentation of them, cant wait to see next stage Harry.Regards Richard (UK).

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Thanks Richard

[@alwoodsmodellingmayhem]

Thanks very much Harry for showing us the hints and tips about building and improving this kit. Really Enjoyed it mate.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

My pleasure matey

[@type2280303]

That looks absolutely amazing Harry, really love the way you made the bumpers and like you said, they are absolutely realistic that way !!!

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Thanks Jean... yes it worked well, I was very lucky.

[@claytonmcclain182]

Fantastic build Harry. I'm really looking forward to the paint job. Especially with the sharks teeth that thing's going to look so cool.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Thanks Clayton... I’m also looking forward to the camo job.. I’ve never done this pattern before, plus I can add some ship weathering on the decks and hull.

[@claytonmcclain182]

@@HarryHoudiniModels The ship weathing is what I need to watch. Haven't built a ship since I was a kid. And you've got me wanting to build my kit now.

[@ArmourEmpire]

Ingenious solution for that bumper mate

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Thanks mate.. I’m not the first to try cotton, but I had to work it all out and do it my way...

[@CoensScaleModelling]

Brilliant bit of show and tell Harry. Thanks :)

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Thanks Michael... wait until I paint it!

[@non-prolific135thscalemode7]

Probably the most unusual German WW II vehicle. I almost purchased one of the HobbyBoss kits in 2008, but then decided to go for the M4 High Speed Tractor. Maybe I'll correct that "mistake" next year, but not before I made the mistake again, hehehe! I never built the tractor but gave it away. These HobbyBoss kits are really nice and prices are rather reasonable. I take it you really recommend this one! Very cool way of making your own fenders! I'll keep that in mind for further use! Oh, and the correct translation is "land-water tractor". :)

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Thanks Jens, but Tug seems so much more a Schlep kinda word and it’s funnier :)

[@non-prolific135thscalemode7]

I agree! It actually looks like a tug boat, only with tracks. :)

[@ericjohnson2329]

Great video Harry! Looks like a tempting model to build.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

I was tempted! So many versions too. I think I may have to build another one LOL

[@wwiiinplastic4712]

I finally got around to this kit myself for an Armorama campaign this morning, and really needed this video. While I would have shied away from the cost of a resin bumper myself, at least it wasn't made of something like Dragon's DS nonsense.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

I am often asked where I bought the bumpers.. and have to astound the person by saying… they are made of string! LOL

[@MrRon6977]

Hey Harry. This is a good looking model, not something you find around to often. I liked the rope work too.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Thanks Ron... I enjoy a good rope trick myself

[@militarymodellerpaul5932]

Great work Harry. I was building one and it fell from the shelve and I stood on it “bin job”. The good news is have another version to build later. Happy moderlling

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Oh no! Lucky you had a backup...

[@militarymodellerpaul5932]

Harry Houdini Models. It was lucky lol

[@usssaratogacv3lefevre978]

Nice model Harry, really looks clean. Paint it really is going to make it look great. Made a paper model ship from scratch and used white glue and thread for hand rails

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Those paper models look like fun and the ones I have seen are a nice 1:200 scale. Maybe one day I will tackle one. I’ve used brass wire for posts and Ezyline for the hand rails on my 1:144 Submarines...

[@ITOWords]

Harry, great format for running through the build. It can sometimes get a little boring watching lots of the time lapse stuff or watching the reviewer record every element of the build. Here you're covering all the important points and we get to enjoy the dulcet tones and dry wit of Harry Houdini.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Thanks mate... I don’t like to repeat things I have shown before, so I try to pick out new techniques and interesting parts of the build to show in detail. Glad you like my format and dulcet tones LOL

[@UKscalemodeller]

An excellent little tutorial on making.....errr.....things, whatyamacallits. Looks like a detailed little kit. Can't wait to see your weatgering on this.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Just the old Indian Rope Trick LOL

[@michaelstrange9123]

Hi Harry, I’m knocking the Bronco ‘late’ version up of the LWS at the moment and I must say it too is a great kit, fit is great, haven’t had any dramas, haven’t got to the tracks yet, they may test the patience but will use your method. Keep up the good work, cheers.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Good to know... keep me posted about the build as I would like to try a different version one day.

[@michaelstrange9123]

Harry Houdini Models will do👍

[@timroberts69]

The Land Waffle Sniffer has a painted map of OZ on it's hull (middle), it even seems to have a map of Tassie (snicker, snicker) on it. When I live in Cairns (lived there 20 something years) we used to visit Kuranda (it used to be a "hippie" community about 1/2 an hour up on the tablelands) they had a nature park that had an Army Duck which was a WWII 6 wheel amphibious vehicle and they had tours which drove you around the park and even into the water. It was amazing. The Duck was a mod of the CCKW truck. For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUKW. Nice video Harry.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

I will have to check out that map of Tassie! Know Kuranda well, I designed an audio visual for the train from Cairns, last decade.

[@timroberts69]

@@HarryHoudiniModels Where the heck did you get those weighted forceps (I think that was the medical name you were looking for)? They look very handy. I forgot you told me that you lived up Cairns way. I think you and I have a similar history (being Queenslanders). We may have even crossed paths at some stage. I was a scout too and got knotted too (the bunny goes around the back and back through under its tail).

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

I worked up in Cairns a few times on contract but never really moved there.. still looking for that map of Tassie... Bask says it should smell like fish?

[@billevans7936]

Ive just received my second Land whatchamacallit kit..My jack Russell tap danced all over my other Hobby Boss. I hvnt finished this darn thing yet Harry....!!

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Your Jack Russell can tap dance? Mate, you’ll make a fortune if you can get that on KZbin!

[@attilioledonne2758]

Great job Harry!!

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Thanks mate

[@steveo4601]

I'm in the middle of making the early version with doggo,,,it's really a good kit.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Yes it is

[@MGB-learning]

Great video!

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Thanks!

[@SuperSwitched]

Interesting build Harry :)

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Thanks Richard.. all the fun of a boat with the tracks!

[@SuperSwitched]

@@HarryHoudiniModels :)

[@brantmorrison3704]

Were you thinking of "forceps" for the tweezer contraption on the stand? I've seen that kit pictured in catalogs. I like the way it builds up.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Yes that’s it.. hot day here shooting under lights with aircon off, I had brain freeze!

[@brantmorrison3704]

Yes... you guys are frying and we are soon to be freezing here. Very nice build, by the way. Your self-made bumper or fender was just excellent. I like seeing how to do things of that sort. I am looking forward to seeing your paint work!

[@thomasdailey9280]

Another well done video Double H ! I will definitely use your link cleaning method for the indi links on my Hobby Boss T-26, T-38, T-37, T-20 Komsomolets and Komsomolets ZIS-30 sp . Obsession , what obsession? I have an Italeri DUKW that I may use your bumper method for . The kit has plastic bumpers for the corners . Not too bad , but I like yours better . I've noticed in your posts that you've been using the Frankenstein thermometer readings and both metric and correct measurement systems in the video . Any reason for that or just how it's been coming out ? And , lastly , before my pen runs out of ink or you fall asleep reading this tripe . Speaking of liking a good tug , the opening ad for Fabletics women's athletic tights certainly made for a well pounded viewing experience ! 😀

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

I grew up with a 100 being a hot day... some how 38 Celsius just doesn’t seem as dramatic. As for feet and inches, it also sounds better to say a foot or yard long! Plus half my audience are Yanks and they don’t know the rest of us are metric yet. I kind of have a food in both systems being born imperial then becoming metric when Australia changed over in the 1970’s. I may have to search for that advert. Since leaving broadcast TV and the advent of online streaming, I don’t watch the adverts anymore.

[@thomasdailey9280]

@@HarryHoudiniModels it was a very well rounded commercial.

[@dtmjax5612]

Hey Harry I notice that Wingnut Wings collection is growing behind you kinda like mine. Gorgeous on the shelf aren’t they? 👍

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

They seem to breeding of their own accord... every time I turn around there are more!

[@dtmjax5612]

Harry Houdini Models They are so nice I almost hate building them to deface them. Lol. I like pulling them off the shelf and admiring them from time to time. 😆 To be honest, I actually have built two of them so far. They are top notch.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Yep I covered the collecting aspect, and how they seem too good to build, in my review of the Hansa Brandenburg W12. Which is the next aircraft to finish from my shelf of procrastination. Trouble is the next step is to button up all the work I did on the interior.. so I keep putting that off :(

[@gunner678]

Land wasser schlepper.......shlep to take the load, wasser water land also...like the beach ARVs in the British orbat! A very literal language! Based on the Lorraine french armour german conversion. It looks like a great model!

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Yes it is a great model to build. Looking forward to painting it

[@MrBMBuilder]

I have been looking at this one for awhile, but haven't picked it up...………………...yet

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Get it! The kit is well engineered and fits perfectly... all you have to cope with are the Indy links, but I show how to do that in my video. Plus if you want the bumpers, I show how they can be easily made from cotton string.

[@chrisbarber5842]

Good idea that you

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Thanks

[@billevans7936]

My newer LWS kit has the rubber tracks...kinda like better...one of these days finish mine...lol

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Good on you Bill

[@thomasmcelroy3637]

hi harry.keep up the songs and models.oh up the fokkers.cheers tom

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Thanks Tom.

[@thomasmcelroy3637]

@@HarryHoudiniModels keep doing what you do.tom

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Must be time for another banjo tune?

[@ITOWords]

Fuck me, that looks like a wing nut wings shop behind you!

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Yep sure is... wanna buy some?

[@ITOWords]

Harry Houdini Models depends how cheap they are Harry, think I'd need a new credit card to buy one of those bad boys😂. To be fair I'm the same with 1/35 Dragon kits. I'm always put off building them by the number of kit parts, but I'm a sucker for the Ron Volstad box art

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Most of my WNW kits were bargains... I have been lucky to find some in deceased estate sales and overseas where the seller had no idea of their value. Many I bought for half or even a third the retail price, but I never pay those bloated Ebay prices. Although I did sell my Gotha, when I realised it was simply too big, and was surprisingly offered nearly 3 times what I paid for it!

[@vo1non]

I’m building this right now… and I’m not impressed. The first problem I noticed was both rubber tracks were too short. I had to soak them in very hot water after tying the the ends with thread. At least they held. The kit isn’t horrible, but I grew up on Tamiya, and I’ve been spoiled. I’m about half finished, and it’s getting better. Great subject matter, though. I’m sure when it’s completely done I’ll be happy.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Hang in there, it is a lovely kit to work on.