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8,8cm Pak 43 Project – New Acquisitions
Onwards A major effort over the past year during the pandemic has just concluded. This was to repatriate number of key components of the Foundation’s…
December 23, 2020
Onwards A major effort over the past year during the pandemic has just concluded. This was to repatriate number of key components of the Foundation’s…
To research the leichter Panzerspähwagen it is necessary to avail of every source of information possible. Building on the historical outline laid down in Panzer…
Sd.Kfz.222 4.Serie – the small fittings for the visors continue to be attended to. Those poor condition items are being brought back from the brink.…
Is the bin back? We discussed the discovery in our last piece (Part 1) of how late ‘low net’ 4.Serie Sd.Kfz.222 (Ausf.A) predominantly has a…
Huge Progress The long awaited (also by ourselves) second Jagdpanther project has not been neglected. On the contrary we have been very successful gathering key…
Work on the Sd.Kfz.222 4 Serie hull focussed on the fabrication and fitting of the rain guards for the front and side visors. The semaphore…
Putting a date on delivery Our research into the fittings on the Aufbau (body) for our Sd.Kfz.222 4.Serie involved the full examination of the Winkerschutz…
The project drawing the fenders for the 4 Serie Sd.Kfz.222 and the 3 Serie Sd.Kfz.223. Detailing the differences and creating the CAD drawings for each…
Work In Progress With the reassembly of the Panzerwanne for the Foundation’s Sd.Kfz.223 3.Serie and Sd.Kfz.222 4.Serie progressing it is now time to sort out…
The conservation work continues on the Sd.Kfz.222 4.Serie chassis. The left rear wheel station is in focus at present, the main prop shaft and gear…
The Foundation’s research into the exterior finish of the four original leichter Panzerspähwagen that we are currently restoring brings us into detailed and interesting areas.…
Restoration of the driver’s seat box A large number of you have been asking for Renault FT articles to be published once more. Let us…
The armoured hull for the 4 Serie Sd.Kfz.222 reassembly continues. We are researching the external fittings for this armoured car and their positioning . All…
The optics appeared to have been dropped in their original transit case, which was also in a very bad state. We received an enquiry whether…
Our fabrication workshop team continued to focus in on the Sd.Kfz.222 4 Serie hull. The roof panel sections were the focus of the earlier part…
Yet more differences The transfer of Panzerwanne production from Deutsche Edelstahlwerke (DEW) to the Austrian Company Schöller Bleckmann AG was heralded by a number of…
Previous research uncovered the variety of options available to teams all those years ago in fitting replacements to taps damaged or lost on the 3.5…
The major focus this week was the Panzerwanne or body of the 4 Serie Sd.Kfz.222. The front half of the body is now almost reassembled…
Fake News 1944! The Weald Foundation is delighted to be able to release a comprehensive update on the armour thickness found in the Ausf.A leichter…
A distant relative We have not found any major differences between the 3 and 4.Serie Sd.Kfz.223 rear when compared to the Sd.Kfz.222 4.Serie rear. The…
A number of you have been asking how many genuine le.Pz.Sp.Wg armoured cars there are in the world. The internet provides a plethora of lookalikes…