WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY: A new StuG III RESTORATION PROJECT!
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
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I really hope Dimitri can come visit Australia and see the StuG III finished. He seems like such a great guy. That opening scene was brilliant.
Can Kurt, Beau or someone at the museum adopt Dimitri so we see him more often and of course you'll have to visit him more often too in that wonderful shop of his.
Dimitri needs his own weekly show! What a knowledge base he has.
But if Dimitri started to do YT Videos he would have less time to find parts, gather knowledge and do restoration. He clearly got all the knowledge and the magic parts bin, because that's an fucus for him.
Very different to his appearances with Bruce Crompton ,
Anyone who wears military fatigues around a workshop definitely should have is own show!
He is amazing.
A Mr. Hewes video AND workshop wednesday? Best wednesday ever
Aus Armour needs to get a british spec centurion or something from them for the ultimate crossover
I did the same as well!
good stuff there on both channels
Very true 👍
That intro with Dimitri....Hi im Kurt from Aus Armour.... is excellent and really funny.
I know right? xD
From the reaction of the guys, it might've not even been planned!
The knowledge these guys possess is fantastic. So happy this is being preserved for future generations.
A great one liner by Dimitri regarding finding the Gun sight ...."No..It's not hard...it's impossible" ! ...& he did find one. 👍
Dimitri has a great personality. Gotta love the Czechs.
Dimitri is not Czech name at all, he is Russian.
Beau's knowledge is awesome - being able to identify subtle differences between various incarnations of the same vehicle and the parts within must have taken an awful lot of time studying various manuals and books describing the history of StuG III 'family'...but then being able to put them together is on another level.
I agree! I was watching and paying close attention to what Bo was saying and I was impressed with his depth of knowledge of Stugs and the slightest variations between models. He definitely knows his stuff and he must have read heaps of manuals and resource books, pouring over heaps of photos. Dare I say that he may very well have dreamed of Stugs as his brain sorted out all of the information.
I am very impressed and Aus Armour should be very proud to have such a professional employee working for them. (Hope that little plug gets you a pay rise Bo! 😊)
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺 Former Australian Army Reservist '88 to mid 90s Signals and Engineers
You could see in his eyes ‘Yeah great I was able to make up all those parts for our Stug, but why oh why didn’t we come here first?’
@@samleigh7817 Same reactions as to when they saw the Grant parts on that farm, before then visiting the other chap who had complete hulls
Good show!!! All very likeable fellows!! It's just amazing at all the parts available... It's too bad that after the the war there wasn't much interest in preserving the vehicles that were left over!!! Poles and Aussies, I have always had a place for them in my heart!!! Always cheerful, very likeable, great sense of humor!!! Funny as hell when they are not trying to be!!! I enjoyed this segment very much!
Kurt happy: You have all the sights
Dimity: Everything... Of course
You can feel the satisfaction there. I need to see it completed, really badly
I'm an automotive restoration/fabricator who is a massive WW2 aviation nut. I was a Blackhawk mechanic in the Army as well. I found your channel about a year ago and thoroughly enjoy watching the guys work and learning about equipment from the war I never knew about! Love this episode and the "Grant "barn find" series"! Keep it up boys!
What a delightful guy Dimitri is..... I'm certain he enjoyed kicking around with you chaps.....
Amazing stuff. The knowledge Dimitri has acquired is something else.
The items in the box (at 2.40) are Hammerstollen, mounted to the tracks for better traction in winter time
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Hammerstollen.jpg
And a big "Thank you!" to the fantastic Australien Armour & Artillery Museum always providing us with great content.
This was the best intro by Kurt welcoming us to workshop Wednesday, Thank you Kurt! :)
-No it's not hard... It's impossible... (Said Dmitry, who made it possible) Such a great work on that. I'm speechless and I love it.
I'm astounded by this collection...even more so as so much war materiel was quite quickly scrapped (relatively) after the 2nd wld war. That so much still survives "out in the wild" and in numerous private hands is a testiment to restorers everywhere. Todays ephisode is a wonderful sight to behold! Thanks for making my day yet again
Looking forward to another great project from the guys.
GREAT show I always look forward to Workshop Wednesday amazing stug parts. I CANT WAIT to see the finished stug.
Great video. What Dimtri said about private companies acting to increase chargeable hours would also apply to US aircraft bomb fuses during WW2. About thirty years ago, we built a couple of townhouses next door to a an RNZAF WW2 ground crew veteran who served in the Pacific Theatre. He advised that the British fuses only took a 6?/12? turns to arm-via a mini-propeller-once the bomb was released but the American fuses took far more turns. I forget the number of turns but it may have been 120. Sometimes … when things got busy, the armourers might not give the fuses all the necessary pre wind and the bombs would not go off!
The yellow rag in the transmission at 16:52 is a german "staubtuch", a dust wipe. We got a bunch of very old ones from our grandma. Don't know why they look like this, but they always did apparently. Ours are almost as old as a StuG & still great.
Really look forward to watching Workshop Wednesday every week.
I could listen to that guy all day. It is a very niche market he sells into and he really knows his stuff. Great episode.
Good video and Dimitri seems to be a good guy. He clearly knows his stuff.
I love these mini series.
I know the sensation the lads felt when they saw the pristine example. I've had it happen many times. You see the differences the clean sheet, sometimes you see mistakes you've made. It's a neat moment.
Gotta love Dimitri, it’s all there~ of course!😂 poor Beau is like a kid in a Lolly shop, doesn’t know what to look at first.🇦🇺
Excellent intro by Dimitri!
This stuff gives me goosebumps. So dang cool.
So much cool stuff. Stuff heaven, when I die, bury me in Dimitri's yard. Guessed the 234/2 turret roof straight away, only because I am currently building a 1/35 scale one. That original T.Rbl.F.3 sight is more precious than Rhodium. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Another Great video.
Wow Dimitri and his team have done an amazing job.
I agree with the previous comment it would great if he and his team could visit Australia.
Cheers
Bloomin marvellous
That is one very impressive the salvage yard😊
Great Video Kurt thank you. Dmitri's knowledge is very deep when it comes to German vehicles for sure. He has a large number of Tiger 1 parts I believe which are not for sale.
Awesome content,
Such a gracious and intelligent person, he is a gift to the restoration community. 🍿
Y'all are doing great work.
The pieces from the Puma were awesome. Dimitri must be a blast to have a beer and a cigar with 👍👍
These guys really know their thing and the history of the production of these Stugs, unbelievable.
Looking forward to seeing the finished driving example next week 😊
Keep up the great work guys. Some amazing videos An armor keeping history alive .
There’s currently no surviving stug iii ausf B in existence and for AAAM to restore one or should I say assemble one in such complete original condition with period correct parts is astonishing it will look great next to the stug iii A also a lone survivor featuring the early superstructure no tank museum in the world has 2 stug iii with the short barreled gun making their stug collection the best in the world with Ausf A,B, F all only surviving examples, ausf G late war April 1945 production, stuh 42 and early stug iv
Plus don't AAAM have the lone surviving Ausf. A too?
This is SO exciting!
What he has obtained and the work they do is just insane! The quality is out of this world and the knowledge is amazing.
He needs to produce a series of books about this stuff as he has so much information at his fingertips it needs to be shared.
What a lovely chap Dmitri is. Keep up the great historical preservation in Czech and Australia!
You and beau are so entertaining, especially the face beau makes as he pops out of the stug casemate. Still wanna know what those pants are he's always wearing I need some good work pants
They look like King-Gee work cool 2
Brilliant! Love the goody hunt 😎🤙🌺
Never thought I’d see a full scale OEM period correct Stug 3 kit get packed and shipped.
StuG 3 in CKD form, some assembly required. I'd love that under my Christmas tree. 😂
i want to have a beer with dimitri, bloke looks like a legend
Hi Curt, im a native German speaker. "G" is often pronounced like a "K" in German. So, it's written "StuG" but most Germans say "SchtuK". Much easyer! And for the "III" (Drei) you can say "Dry". So, it's "SchtuK Dry"....
Looking forward to next week's episode and when they finally start to assemble it. Wow
As soon as he said that room plate was german, 100 built and non surviving my mind immediately went to Sd.Kfz. 234/2 "Puma". With how often it shows up in media, you wouldn't think it was only 100 built out of necessity to use the turrets built for the cancelled Leopard project on something. Shame none survive today, it seemed like it was quite the beast. And I agree with Dimitri, it is one of the most beautiful armoured vehicles.
Again I'm stunned by what you blokes are finding. Absolutely gobsmacked, and the condition of some of these parts is incredible! But perhaps the most jaw dropping thing for me was the turret roof of the Puma. Such a shame that not one complete example has survived. Arguably the best looking and meanest armoured car of WW2.
To Dimitri and his awesome team in the Czech Republic, I salute you all for your wonderful work.
Pretty sure there is a puma at Bovington tank museum
@@stephenchase2547 They have a 234/3 with the short 75mm. It's on the Wikipedia page for the 234 series.
That safety system on the short barrel is similar to the system on the Australian leopard. Once the loader loaded the round he hit the circuit switch to open the circuit. 105 gun was electrically fired. A red light on the panel above the gun illuminated telling everyone the gun was loaded and ready to fire. As well as yelling the command "loaded"out😀
Had something similar on the Abrams
@@scottburton509 yeah it does
Just WOW!
A treasure hunt - you can really feel the excitment ...
Awesome guys, my new favorite channel.
Love the new Kurt
Best intro yet!
I believe that box at @2:40 is a box of "Schneegreifer" which were keyed to fit into those vertical slots at the edges on each side of every track link in icy or heavy snow conditions ? I think the hole in each tooth/greifer was for a split pin to secure them in place. @9:58 you can see these vertical slots on each link, just behind the link pins
Absolutely brilliant.
It is amazing how many parts of ww2 equipment are still found,
Friend of mine dropped by one day. He was repairing a DC-3 engine. Shown me a few parts in WW2 original packaging he'd ordered for the engine.
There are lots of bits still left in Russia. There are a few channels detailing the digs such as the black diggers, who detail such recovery efforts. Any German war dead are repatriated with military honors back to Germany. Some are identifiable from their ID tags, some are not but all are sent home to Germany for proper burial.
Beautiful
HahA Kurt zamienił się w Dimitriego :) Niezła zamiana :)
Great show you guys have a great job
Those are amazing. Kudos to Dimitri and his crew.
Aladins cave of German parts.never ending. Looking forwards to viewing the build bk in ozz
Wish all team to have the power(money) and strength to continue their amazing work! Hat off !
Incredible knowledge
I think you found a spin off show!!! Well done fellas!! Looking forward to the new build.
A Puma! Now that's something I would love seeing rebuilt.
I hope they find more of the Puma. That would be utterly amazing.
The “ Stug Life “ with Beau !
One time I made a motorcycle out of 10 other ones!! I know just what these boys go threw to make one thing right and functioning.
Did Beau?Walk threw a fluff storm with his shirt.LOLTwo kids in a Lollie shop.Another great episode.
Another Stug wow that's amazing!!!
I knew right away that that was a Puma roof plate!
Great video.
Love the show looking forward to tank fest 🎉🎉🎉🎉
That intro is so good haha
And King Gee gear in CZ yussss
Dimitri is a top guy he knows his stuff , love it when he refers to , the bloody Germans, no love lost there ..
Excelente lo hacen por restaurar esos tanques de más de 80 años es genial 👍
Really excited about this project. Cheers lads.
Simply amazing to see.
I love how a box that 99% of people would see scrap your discovering hidden away jewels. She's a beauty!
I am waiting for the day, that we all be watching new Workshop Wednesday episodes on The Australian Armour & StuG III & Artillery Museum YT channel.
Don´t get me wrong, I am all for it :D
Great video
A Tank fan Disneyland..😀
Wow 😮
This episode didn't disappoint. ❤
Tamya for big boys.
Very big boys.
There comes a point when you are no longer collecting for a museum, but for an active Stug platoon
As it must be. Yes sir.
Great job, guys 👍
What a great episode
Did you go to France 🇫🇷 and look at the Tank Collection there ???
Merry Christmas!
those little parts in that metal box (at 2:41)are ice cleats that fit in the slots left and right of a tracklink
is the "Puma" he is refering to a Panzer II Luchs? if so that is an amazing find
What an astonishing pile of rare Panzer parts !. Just Amazing !. The small pieces contained in the box that Beau was looking were the
" Hammerstollen" icecreets for the track of Panzer 3 and 4.
its just really amazing they able to find stuff like that in super good condition, I wonder if there more part underground we havent known yet.