Workshop Dispatch – 9-13 February 2026
This week in the workshop, we saw continued progress on the windscreens for both Sd.Kfz.223 projects, while work has begun on our Jagdpanther as we…
February 13, 2026
This week in the workshop, we saw continued progress on the windscreens for both Sd.Kfz.223 projects, while work has begun on our Jagdpanther as we…
A week of great progress across both Sd.Kfz.223 projects, with reassembly now well underway on the Weald Foundation vehicle and the Wheatcroft Collection example edging…
This week saw steady, satisfying progress across both Sd.Kfz.223 projects. With the major mechanical work now behind us on the Weald Foundation vehicle, we’ve been…
This week was all about getting properly stuck into the kind of work that rarely looks simple once you start. The team made major progress…
It has been a solid week in the workshop, with a good mix of maintenance, careful adjustment work, and a couple of satisfying jobs brought…
Christmas is fast approaching, and the team has been fully engaged with our project in the final few days before we take a much-deserved Christmas…
With the completion of our Sd.Kfz.261 project milestone, we’re excited to dive into a restoration that has long been on our team’s wishlist: the Australian…
Bothe the Fabrication hall and the Machining Final Assembly Hall are flat out in providing the fittings to allow for the assembly of the suspension…
The Sd.Kfz.261 suspension is quite different to that of the Ausf.A armoured cars. We are fortunate to have most of the components ready for use…
The machining work on the suspension assembly for the Sd.Kfz.261 5.Serie is drawing to a close with only a few small components now to be…
The Sd.Kfz.261 5.Serie project is moving forward at quite a pace. The armoured body was completed last week. The very large roof is now fitted…
The armoured hull for the Sd.Kfz.261 crafted from the many pieces and panels we have gathered over more than 25 years is now complete. The…
Our teams are working steadily on 2 fronts – the first is the completion of the armoured body and the second is machining and refurbishing…
On the machining front our team are busy with the required parts for the suspension assemblies of the Sd.Kfz.261 5.Serie. This work is continuing at…
One of our final tasks in completing the external facing armoured body of the Sd.Kfz.261 5.Serie is safely bringing back the badly bent and shattered…
The armoured hull is now within days of completion as the team fits the remaining upper front panels – bonnet and the driver’s visor area.…
A good week for the team. Both the left and right hand sides of the frontal armour section containing the left and right hand doors,…
The work to assemble the rear armour of the Sd.Kfz.261 5.Serie is now complete. The work to reassemble the plates for the front armoured hull…
The painstaking process of straightening the original armour panels over many hours is yielding results. The original body of our Sd.Kfz.261 5.Serie chassis is starting…
The team managed a great deal this week in bringing the armoured body panels up into the Fabrication Hall and making good progress on repairing…
Our work this week involved not only our research guys, a bit of luck and painstaking gathering of components for our armoured car projects. Not…