Sd.Kfz.223 (Ausf.A) 3.Serie – Wartungsschild (The Cabin Plaques)
Most Armoured Vehicles, despite their origin, have an assortment of Plaques attached in various locations that carry information that guides the users or maintenance crews…
Most Armoured Vehicles, despite their origin, have an assortment of Plaques attached in various locations that carry information that guides the users or maintenance crews…
Department Of Corrections? The last Inside Track article on the Sd.Kfz.223 3.Serie driver’s seat investigation was published on 1 September 2023. We showed three driver…
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…
Part 1 of our Inside Track article about the Historical background to the Sturmgeschütz covered the introduction and successful utilisation of s.Pak Ausf.A in 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…
Our Inside Track article of June 2021 provided a good insight into the Entstörung (suppression) as fitted to the Sd.Kfz.222 (Ausf.A) 4.Serie. For this vehicle,…
Our very premeditated approach to the restoration of our Sd.Kfz.223 (Ausf.A) 3.Serie has been aided to no small extent by the extent of the learning…
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…
A while ago we posted an Inside Track article regarding how we at the Weald Foundation aspire to the “gold standard of restoration”. An unfortunate…
The Foundation often receives questions about the Historical background of the (StuG) Sturmgeschütz and why we consider this to be one of the most influential…
It has been a very busy week in the Workshop with the Sd.Kfz.223 restoration, from painting to wiring and part fabricating. The wiring of the…
In May 1945, the exhibition at the Imperial War Museum included six representative German and one Italian armoured vehicle. Perhaps only one of these remains…
Part 2 – Active Collaboration Our relationship with André Becker developed right from our very first meeting. The momentum in collecting and researching for the…
The team’s focus this week has been mainly on the TWC Sd.Kfz.223, with the front fenders finished and primed. All armoured visors have been completed…
There continues to be a lot of interest in the details of the Sehklappe (plate visors) from both the enthusiast and modeller community, so we…
No less than four times over the past few years has the Foundation been offered an original Typenschild (data plate) from a Jagdpanther. Normally such…
In Part II we provided extracts of the original orders issued during 1937 that introduced the ‘dunkelgrau’ and ‘dunkelbraun’ camouflage schemes. Here we cover the situation in…
The restoration of our Sd.Kfz.223 Ausf.A 3.Series continued this week, with additional work also carried out on the TWC Sd.Kfz.223. Following last week’s preparations, several…
The following article was written for Inside Track by an avid gamer. We thought that Foundation members might find this perspective of interest. The Early…
Despite our Inside Track article in November 2023, we were surprised at the number of suggestions from members and others that the Foundation’s Sd.Kfz.223 (Ausf.A)…
Every step of our journey with the Sd.Kfz.223 (Ausf.A) 3.Serie restoration project turns up yet another interesting vagary. This time when we test installed an…