Workshop

Happy New Year! Work continued on the FT this week, here is an image of fitting the return roller rails. We’ll talk more about this…

This week we continued with the fitting of the suspension beam and later in the week began fitting the main suspension housing and the hull…

The six Renault FT brake bands have come back from being re-lined. We have two originals and four are newly made. We have also had…

We continued this week harvesting usable nuts and bolts from the spare TSF turret box. We stripped down the complete TSF turret box ready to…

This week we have continued dismantling the remains of the TSF super structure to recover any usable nuts and bolts. We are also looking at…

This week work on the TSF cupola was largely completed. The cupola itself has been repaired by using sections of a new cast cupola. The…

A lot of progress made on the FT and TSF this week. The FT turret ring has been adjusted so that it now has a…

Tracks & Cupolas We have spent all week working on the Renault TSF cupola base and repairing two original cupolas – a TSF and an…

Detail Work Focus continued on the restoration of all of the small components within the Renault TSF “Blockhaus” Turret. Great attention was spent on saving…

The Renault TSF hull assembly has been completed to the same level as the FT. This will allow for the next phase of assembly of…

The focus this week was on rebuilding the Renault TSF. We are cataloguing the progress with a time lapse camera. You’ll find updates on our…

This week we have powered on with the FT gearbox. All gear selectors are in place. Bottom shaft and reverse gear are in. The main…

Progress on the FT & TSF This week great strides were made on taking the TSF turret apart and recording large amounts of interesting data.…

The new gearbox bearing housings are now fully machined and the assembly process for the fully reconditioned gearboxes has just started today. The Renault TSF…

Giving it a Spin We ran the first test of the original Renault FT turret ring (the lower part of the turret) using ball bearings.…

A delicate operation today to lift the TSF turret from it’s position on the tank to a specially made base to allow us to repair…

Work on FT and StuG and plans for Jagdpanther Rapid progress has been made on assembling the restored components of the FT. It should be…

The assembly of the Renault FT hull really picked up momentum. We completed the interior and exterior of the front of the hull, fitted the…

Assembly Begins! We took the first steps in reassembling the Renault FT. This started with the floor. All bolts had either been blasted and cleaned…

We are collecting numerous items from a dealer in Europe. This is quite exciting given how long we have had to wait for these parts.…