Hobby Boss 82461 1/35 German Land-Wasser-Schlepper II-Prototype  [HB-82461]

One drawback of the LWS was having less armor, and armor was deemed essential for any amphibious operations. The floating trailer had been also regarded as too cumbersome and clumsy so a brand new scheme was developed. The overall structure regarding the LWS was held, but the brand new car had the trackwork and suspension associated with ubiquitous PzKpfw IV to guide a lightly armored superstructure. Two brand new cars, called Panzerfaehre or PzF, had been built and built to just take a big pontoon between them to transport a tank or other cargo. Interesting with this design are the cape stand winch in the exact middle of the deck as well as the fold down atmosphere intakes. The driver sits in the front down and below and just ahead of the air intakes. Thus the PzF would become a ferry in the place of a tractor. But this system had been canceled in 1942 following the two prototypes were built and tried. A pre-production of seven LWS II had been built in addition they served regarding the Eastern front. Following the war the LWS ended up being taken by the British and also to England for technical assessment.