Sd.Kfz.261 5.Serie armoured body nearing completion
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,…
August 10, 2024
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…
This week has seen all of the interior and exterior tabs cleaned, threaded and fitted to allow for the blasting and priming of the 2…
The list of items requiring attention was drawn up just after the event when we discovered a few problems. Luckily none were serious. 2 fuel…
Last minute fittings took place this week. Only later in the week was the Sd.Kfz.223 3.Serie armoured car able to drive out for the very…
The Horch 3.5 litre V8 of the Sd.Kfz.223 3.Serie is now running beautifully. The engine has been run for some time over the week. This…
Last minute electrical fittings have taken place this week allowing the Horch 3.5 V8 engine of our Sd.Kfz.223 3.Serie to be started for the first…
The Horch 3.5 litre V8 was set up this week and finally started. After a number of small adjustments to the fuel pump and the…
The detailed fitting of the interior has commenced in earnest. The parts long ago prepared for this point are now being fitted to the crew…
The Sd.Kfz.223 3.Serie is pressing on. The engine is set to run next week, small tasks such as fitting the range of small taps into…
The machining for the Querlenker wishbones of the Sd.Kfz.261 5.Serie are progressing well. The 2 new examples made to original specification based on the 2…
The wiring from the loom into the fuse boxes fitted to the steering column is done. The wiring from the fuse boxes is done and…
The exciting Horch 3.5 litre V8 engine project for our Sd.Kfz.223 3.Serie is proceeding very well. The time scale to completion is not very long…
The Horch 3.5 litre V8 engine is progressing. All of the valves, valve guides and springs are fitted. The new replacement baffle plates have been…
Really exciting few days here as the exterior of the Sd.Kfz.223 3.Serie was painted in Dunkelgrau. This is the front armoured section of the armoured…
The long awaited engine rebuild of the Horch 3.5 litre V8 for the Sd.Kfz.223 3.Serie is now underway. The white metalling and boring/honing of the…
Our 3.5 Horch V8 litre block has been white metalled as required. The block bores have been honed and is in the final stages of…
The Sd.Kfz.223 remains the team’s main focus, but this week we had to wait for some jobs to be completed before we could continue with…