Das Werk Schwimmwagen SG 6 Part 2 Building a Floater what's wrong with the kit
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- This kit held so much promise in my review, and don't get me wrong it builds up into a great plastic model, but getting there can have its pitfalls and is quite frankly downright frustrating. However I have solutions to the problems and do manage, despite frequent cussing, to get this kit built.
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Hi Harry, I think you’re being too self deprecatory about your modeling skills; you build stuff entertainingly and are a true mentor for those of us who are novices or old farts returning to the hobby in retirement.
Also let’s remember that you’re not merely a modeler; you are a cameraman, video and audio editor and musician (?). Your production skills are constantly improving.
Whatever you are modeling the “product” is the presentation; and it’s brilliant.
Kind words. Thank you Paul… that reminds me, we need more banjo!
Hi Harry! Here I was thinking that I was alone in having ‘’old man” fingers and eyesight problems, but it sounds like this kit has exacerbated the problem. However, you are just the man to overcome the frustration. Keep them coming mate, and cheers from south of the border.
Thanks Gary… I will just push ahead and paint the floater… small parts are now optional… they fell off in the field
Another interesting project. You seem to have an inexhaustible supply of these to keep us entertained. You have to wonder what thought process (or lack of) made the manufacturers think this level of absurdity was a good idea. A model from a non modelling committee perhaps! Thanks for sticking with it and posting. Best wishes.
Thanks matey… more to come
Thank you Harry. Great video and I send my commiseration for the struggle with the build. Maybe two or three Red Bulls before taking it on for me. Cheers mate. 😊
You would need more than a few drinks I fear… maybe a bag of mushrooms would make the experience more psychedelic. hehe
Hi Harry - that space between the body and the sill can be easily fixed with a strip of 20 th plastic card-
nobody is going to get out the micrometre.
Ah good. Some level headed thinking. I was lost in a haze of pissed off fog. Thanks for the sensible advice Ross. Easy fix!
Hi Harry, I have this kit to build at some point and your trailblazing in problem solving various issues is much appreciated.
I suffer, so you don’t have to :)
Well Harry all I can say is ,I'm glad it's you building this. However I know you won't let it beat you. Looking forward to the next installment. Cheers from Blighty.
Thanks Nick
Glad I’ll never build that model but well done you Harry for staying with it, looks right weird, model on
Thanks Sarah-Jane… I just wasn’t in the mood for a frustrating kit this week. Should have just given up when I missed the competition deadline a week ago and made a funny video instead.
So glad you posted this video. This kit is on my list of ones I wanted to get, and now, I have reservations, for the same reasons you do. Because injection moulding has come on leaps and bounds over the years, kits have become over-engineered. Companies do this just to prove that they can, they like to one up their competition. In some ways it can be a good thing as you can get good kits. In other ways, as you prove in this video, it can complicate things that don't need to be.
Silly bugger that I am, I decided to get back into modelling with a *cough* Tamiya *cough* kit! I know, you did warn me! It was a Willys Jeep. Needless to say, it began to get on my tits and I relegated it to the other room. Now I'm building Academy Ford Mutts and they are fun kits by comparison. Looking forward to seeing how you get on with the rest of David Schwimmer though.
From now one I will call this kit David!
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Much "fiddlyness"(?) I don't think that's a word, but what the hell! I agree 100% Harry, over-engineered, needless multi-part assemblies when one part can be molded! Thanks for the advice regarding assembly. I am currently building the Border Model 88mm Flak 36, same issues that you are facing along with poor fit on some parts!! Good luck with the rest and I look forward to seeing it! Be seeing you!
Fiddlyness should be a word! Just like Kafarketry. They perfectly describe the situation. Someone call the Oxford Dictionary immediately! Oh, and I want credit.
@@HarryHoudiniModels If "fiddlyness" isn't in the dictionary, then there aren't enough model builders amongst those people that make dictionaries! 🤣😃😄
Nice! I'm a noobie so got an Eastern Express BT-7 for the pain of learning and to avoid dorking up a quality kit. Torture for sure, but fun. Thanks for the reality check and for everything you do. Cheers!
It’s not a bad kit, just well over engineered. Hope my ranting helps
I think you've demonstrated perfectly why the philosophy of "oh look at the parts count on this box" does not translate into something being a fantastic kit haha. Usually if the parts count is higher all they did (like on this one) is make the most ridiculous parts separate that could have been more easily molded in, just to boost the number. Coming along nicely though!
Thanks. I think I am over the worst of it and my model won’t need the rest of the fiddly bits, they simply broke off in the field.
Thank you for sharig.
My pleasure matey
It is a good job you enjoy a challenge!
My stubborn tenacity got me through, along with a healthy dose of cussing,
I’m sure it will look great once you have finished it. All the pain and gnashing of teeth will be forgotten!
Yes, like child birth, I imagine as not having the genitalia, I will look bad with rose tinted glasses on this build one day
Yeah,why not make one fiddly part for the rivet counters,then mould the rest easy for modellers who just want to get to the painting,nice looking model though,nice one mate ,happy modelling 😉👍
This was one of the rare times I wanted a quick build, to get done for our Facebook Groups competition. Thought it would be an easy kit. Done now, but I missed the comp deadline. I will enjoy the painting another day.
Nope, never going to build that kit! Braver man than me Harry. I'll see your old man's fingers and raise you an "essential tremor". (Don't know what's "essential" about it, but I take extra strength beta-blockers to reduce it.) Good luck mate!
Sorry to hear that Randal… my hands shake if it’s cold, so I usually have a hot shower before doing my videos. That way I get a few hours of reasonably steady modelling. But my eyes are getting worse each year… Im already on 3X prescription glasses for modelling… might need 4X this year.
I made a floater this morning 😁
I hope it squeezed out more easily than this one?
@@HarryHoudiniModels now that would make your eyes water
well at least this one is kind of smooth and round ;)
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I feel your pain Harry, I have only built 2 Das Werk kits, both were a pain in the arse, lots of fit issues and poor engineering also very vague instructions, the kits were the L900 Faun and trailer, wouldn't recommend them to anyone...
Phew… so it’s not just me then?
@@HarryHoudiniModels No not just you, I think they need to have a sit down and re work everything...
Schlepper (pun intended) der fiddly bits on der Hippo mate. Sure it will look ace when you've finished it. All the best.
We will call it Dave the Hippo from now on!
All those small parts that a killer for me . That said look a nice one to have in the collection but a different brand, my be Tamiya 😅
Yes this was a time, with only two weeks to build and paint, I should have chosen a shake and bake kit instead!
Das Werk needs to get das boot for being ridiculously overfiddly. 😱
Maybe some people will love the fiddling… I just wasn’t in the mood for such stupidity.
Oh My Harry...
Yep. It's a floater!
And, this is why kits take us so much longer than planned :-) Why did they make so many small fiddly bits? Because they could. Hopefully you can wrangle this horrible little ugly beast into shape, Harry.
The beast will be tamed or my name isn’t Whoo Dunny!
You have to buy 3 more of these,and build a factory diorama with the assembly line showing the suspension in all its stages!
2 more! Do you want to drive me down the creek with madness? hehe
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I wish the manufacturers wrote their instructions in Harry speak.
Bingo
bongo!
It is so delightfully strange, this kit, but a little over the top in parts. Well at last no large parts showing😅
Over the top is about right. Nearly ended up under the bench… in the bin!
I know why you're building it mate, because you said, but if I was bogged down in that thing, I'd be thinking how much further one of my sailing ships would be if I'd stuck to them... 😂😂😂
Hint-hint. 😅
I had the same guilty thought… the ratlines would have been done on the St Louis… lesson learned. Back to ships for this fat fingered and half blind ole sea dawg.
@HarryHoudiniModels I have these deviations too.
I'm about to embark upon an Airfix Austin lorry (1/35th recent kit) turned into a fish-and-chip van which used to wander around the local villages in Norfolk when I was a wee boy.
Using an ICM lorry body for the van part. I can see the razor saw removing most of that. 🤣
A heap of tiny parts for no reason other than to get the parts count higher
Yes. It is absurd
Once again a lot of small parts where a couple would do . Why do they do it ? ls it done intentionally to drive modellers to distraction ,cause stress or make the build an endurance test ? Sad to see another model company going down this road more so when the extra assembly work is hidden on completion as you showed on the wheel assembly . Trumpeter were one of the worst offenders , shame that Das Werk are following suit .
It is an absurd trend and completely unnecessary I think
Ha you think that's bad just done the track's on a Hobbyboss Soviet Anti-tank gun ,113 separate links per side with two pins per link about 1.5mm long and they are handed a left side pin and a right side pin total of 339 parts per track , 678 parts just for the tracks all in 1/35 scale.
Oh my Cat! Well that would be mind numbing…
@@HarryHoudiniModels it was a model I bought from an English charity shop for just a few English shekels can't resist a bargain but I can understand why it was donated, you have to be a masochist to complete it.
man that thing is so ugly i wish it was a Unterseeboot or should i say das boot was untersee
A sunken wreck or turned turtle would be a good diorama to hide its bulbous snoze
@@HarryHoudiniModels A sunken wreck diorama would be a nice one to do Harry do it lol