WW2 German Wehrmacht "HUMMEL" Self Propelled Gun Tour and Restoration 

What you guys can do with a pile of scrap is absolutely amazing. Love your work 👍🏻🇦🇺

Beau is unbelievably humble just casually describing what he had to make from scratch to turn a pile of scrap metal into a recognizable vehicle

Every exhibit should also display the story of how they were brought back to their former glory by the world class team the Museum has in the workshop. What the boys did with this Hummel is honestly just as amazing as the vehicles War time history! Massive kudos to the Workshop, bloody incredible.

It is just amazing that some one even kept those blown apart pieces for you to weld back together.

Another Outstanding vehicle Tour video. Please keep making these.

Ok, that moment when you see the pieces on the ground is mind blowing on how good the vehicle looks after restoration...

Thanks Jason, Beau & team, bloody spectacular exhibit, both of you deserve an OBE, brilliant work. Cheers

Jason Belgrave's knowledge is simply astonishing. What an amazing collection. Les Griffiths

Mate! You’d be great at jigsaws! Really enjoying the clear explanations of why things were built a certain way. Keep them coming.

Appreciate mentioning czech origin of word howitzer, in german haubitze, in czech houfnice (houf is old word for swarm/crowd). Amazing work restoring this vehicle from scrap.

Your team of craftsman are absolutely amazing! What an awesome story! The craftsmanship is only rivalled by the depth of knowledge the narrator shares with us in these videos. As always, excellent content and thank you for bringing it to us!

"its still cool though." Thats an understatement if Ive ever heard one. Especially given what you guys had to work with.

Hummel and the Wespe are two of my favorite German WW2 vehicles. The level of effort, craftsmanship and attention to detail are beyond compare. Looking at the finished vehicle and the jigsaw puzzle piece side plate blows my mind. I could only hope there was a series like the Jagdpanth er and Stug iii on this project. Your website is like Nirvana to a tank nerd like me.

That's just amazing to me you can actually put these completely blown to bits-tanks back together! And it is wonderful that you have the means and support to do so! Serious talent there. Bringing History back to life. and the First and Second World Wars are all but forgotten and the story lost, not even taught in many schools anymore, but this brings it all back home, everyone should have to take a walk through the museum, it needs to be remembered. I feel lucky, that my Grandfather, my Dads step-dad, had served in both wars as a Norwegian Merchant Marine, some stories there- hugely influenced my life he taught me how to splice lines, and knots used at sea, I later used regularly ...when I went to sea. Skills lost to time, and yet much of the world still use, your museum is a gift to the world to see, share, and learn from.

At 4:25, The English word howitzer comes from the Czech word houfnice, from houf, 'crowd' - the Czech Hussites used cannon against groups.

Amazing that you could put that back together.

That’s incredible, a pity that you weren’t making videos back then. Awesome restoration and very interesting information. Thanks

Brilliant work... Showing the skilled and dedicated work of whole the restoration team to a wider audience than just those who can visit the display. I live an hour away from the museum, and count myself very, very fortunate to be able to wander in at my pleasure... Beau, stop 'downplaying' your abilities - the job you did recreating that brake dust vent is nothing short of phenomenal.

These videos are absolutely brilliant, please keep doing them for the rest of your superb collection. The videos complement Bovington Tank Museums output so those who cannot visit will be able to appreciate the rare vehicles you have so brilliantly preserved. Thank you!

Note: The track tread is designed to grip the ice, tracked machines struggle on ice. It’s like being on skates, so we typically weld “corks” on every second or third track, they generally ware off over the winter.

I had a couple of these when I played war games 30 yrs ago

This piece is in excellent condition for such a rare vehicle. Excellent work. Thank you for the video!

Happy Hummel Hugs! My battle cry in World of Tanks when I switch the Hummel from indirect to emergency close range brawler.

Great video. Hummels were relatively rare during the war (only 700 built), and now days only six remain in museums. It is great to see it even if it is incomplete without an engine. Kudos to Beau and the boys for putting it back together from so many small pieces. I hope to be able to visit there one day.

My Favorite Surprise, on a War-game Battlefield, doubt I would find them so much fun in real life, on receiving end, being Pummeled by a Hummel .. Another Fantastic Video !!

Another stunning result of long hours of dedicated work! Wonderful! Congratulations from France for the quality of your work! 😮🤩👍

These tracks were called correctly "Ostketten" due to Russian winters. Ost is east in German. As always -great job&team!

Another outstanding video and presentation.

Once I got into the video and saw the patchwork "quilt" sides, I was gobsmacked!

Hummel means translated Bumblebee ! 🐝

Brilliant work!!

Awesome job 👏👏👏

May I say how much this old POM enjoys your Wednesday programme.

Amazing work.

outstanding! Amazing restoration

I can't believe the rebuild! Amazing!

Well done Love these

These are the best tank tours on youtube

Unbelievable restoration puzzle! Brilliant work!

blows your mind what these lads can do , just unbelievable 👌, and their knowledge they have gained on these vehicles is incredible too 👍, keep at it lads , just loving these vids 😉

What a great job you all did with it!!! Definitely something to be proud of!! Well done!!!

Amazing work putting it all back together.

Phenomenal work gentleman!

you guys did an amazing job putting all those pieces back together. it looks great! bravo!

Love your work

Cracking Restoration job

The amount of love, care and attention to detail that goes into rebuilding these weapons of war is breathtaking. God bless you guys!

Good night! Piecing that thing together!!! I had no idea. Amazing.

Great job love it

Too look at that pile of little bits and pieces and then to see the finished vehicle is amazing. You guys are so dedicated to your work and the results are beautiful.

Outstanding work, explanation of work, and videography!

Brilliant work!👍

Sensational workmanship. So glad people with this sort of ambition exist. ❤

That was restoration was truly amazing

The combination of historical context and restoration info works great

What a massive undertaking in Fabrication words can't express what you guys have accomplished, you have put the WOW in your craftsmanship

The work you guys did with the stuff you had is just crazy

Good video. Excellent result from such a daunting jigsaw puzzle.

Amazing workmanship.....👏👏👏 well done guys

The work that these lads produce, is exceptional. Thes are fantastic videos, thank you.

I've got the Tamiya Nashorn (Nas-horn, NOT Nash-orn!) on my bench and I bought four Eduard PE sets, an Aber gun barrel and 3D printed resin tracks. That means I'm taking it bloody seriously with this build, hahaha! Apart from the gun this is the same vehicle, so this video comes in handy. I like your pronunciation of almost all German words. Only "Hummel" (bumble bee) was wrong. Phonetically it's pronounced "Hoommel". The way you pronounced it would be a different animal ("Hammel" = mutton). Thanks a lot for the upload!

This is one of the most impressive jobs you guys did! GSUS!!

great hearing how humble Beau is - let him know, no matter how poor he thinks his early work might be, it does the job, and the same as i have done with aircraft, if you can't get it, make it, replicate it, and should one come about, ever, than you can always replace when one becomes available, great informative video

I cant believe they restored the vehicle from those broken parts. Amazing !

Awesome work.

Great vid , thank you , happy to watch and like anything you blokes do, well worth my time , let alone yours 👍

Awesome guys!!!!

Incredible work. This channel deserves way more subs.

Unbelievable and damn amazing that you guys made that awesome machine from a pile of scraps.

Worlds toughest jigsaw puzzle! Great restoration job, guys - and a really interesting lecture. Thanks!

Perfect..! Very nice job, made from little pieces. Amazing!!! Keep going, your ar the best!!

You guys got the greatest job in the world …I wish we had something even close to it back here . Greetings from the Netherlands ❤ Never miss an episode

Amazing Job you done there!

Very nice presentation. Great to hear from the restorer.

Great job

Amazing how their rebuild this old warhorse!!! Congratulations!!!

Good work.

You all did a great work Thank you very much Take Care yours Frank Galetzka

Thats an amazing vehicle considering the shards it was in. Fantastic collection. Love your vids.

You gentlemen do such a fantastic job of re-building these rusty machines.

The work you guys do it amazing, I'd love to come to work there.

Nice job!

6:24 That is freaking amazing that you put that vehicle together from that pile of mangled parts!

What a tremendous job you guys and girls do.

Panzer Tracts 17, of which I'm sure you guys have a copy of. Info and internal photos start at page 40. Carries 48 main rounds, but let's be honest, they likely stacked up as many rounds as they could carry.

coolest jigsaw puzzle ever

SOOO this is basically a Jigsaw rebuild. This is OUTSTANDING work guys - Truly impressive. Well done.

You guys are the perfect group to do a video on how to “lay a battery” and aim the gun on target. It should impress the tankers on how hard indirect fire is!

I like your work and this channel.

A great video.

Because the basic Hummel could carry only a limited amount of ammunition, the Munitionsträger Hummel ("ammunition carrier Hummel") was developed. This was basically a standard production Hummel without the howitzer (a 10 mm armour plate covering the gun mount) and with racks fitted to hold the ammunition.[2] When necessary, these could still be fitted with the 15 cm howitzer of the normal Hummel; this could even be done as a field conversion. By the end of the war, more than 700 Hummel had been built together with 157 ammunition carriers using the same design.

No apologies necessary. When you have scrap to work with you must use your expertise and GO FOR IT!! Well Done!!

Ihr leistet extrem gute Arbeit und habt ein sehr, sehr gutes Team! Vielen Dank dafür....viele Grüße aus Deutschland......Claus

The vehicle looks really good guys 👍

Nice!

такие скромные ребята. из осколков собрали Хумель и говорят что несколько деталей не оригинальные, пришлось сделать в ручную. Да это вообще чудо что хоть так сохранитсяся этот хлам.

Looks like your missing a couple bins in the back that stowed the ammo but usually they had a support half track carrier ammo too

Man that is one amazing repair job.. at 1st I didn't even thought this vehical was used that much.

Beautiful!! 👌 The Nashorn project in the Netherlands is also very interesting! It is almost tge same as this vehicle but equiped with 75mm anti tank gun. Just 3 servivors and this one is made running with Deutz V12 Diesel engine. So.. not original engine but still German V12.

Woww ! hard to believe what a great effect you managed to get out of those scraps bravo! sub & paw 🙂