Australian Local Pattern Carrier (LP1) – A New Project
The Journey Begins We’re now taking the first firm steps on this exciting project and doing a little more research into our LP1. Local Pattern…
September 15, 2017
The Journey Begins We’re now taking the first firm steps on this exciting project and doing a little more research into our LP1. Local Pattern…
`The Casings’ The purchase of the very rare Renault GP tracked tractor continued to yield more benefits to the FT and TSF projects. A complete…
How Many? Without removing the turret there is no way of determining just how the bearing surface operates between the turret ring and the turret…
A Bonus Box A question, which remains open since the completion of both the Farley Mowat and Black Sea StuG, is the build design of…
Studying the sequencing of track link numbers From our Archive – Part Two of the Track Link Article Studying the composition and sequencing of track…
A Lucky Find! Our previous articles on the trenching skid for the TSF covered the unique and impressive array of additional structures originally built on…
Study shows a range of different track links. Another article from our FT Archive showing how far we’ve come. Each Renault FT (FT17) has 32…
Pattern reveals machinists technique An article from our archive at the start of our Renault FT project. We’ve included a recent picture of the floorplates…
A New Insight Our recent visit to the El Goloso base in Spain yielded a very unexpected surprise when we were invited to see their…
Repairing The Cases Both gearbox cases were in a bad state given since 1918 when last installed on the assembly line in Billancourt by Renault.…
More Research Apart from the high-resolution images of an early 1944 MIAG captured StuG and our Black Sea and Farley Mowat machines, we had nothing…
A Nuts & Bolts Issue All the body panels for the Renault FT have been blasted and primed with red oxide ready for assembly. The…
A Surprise Bonus! A TSF turret was offered to us recently. This was part of a previous deal in which the upper part of the…
The Last Word? Ever since the new theory linking the chassis number and registration number emerged we continued to look for more examples to test…
Closer to an Answer A nagging concern of ours since completion of the restoration of our Black Sea MIAG assembled StuG was the application of…
Did September / early October assembled MIAGs have Armoured Hub Caps? We took the opportunity to visit El Goloso base just outside Madrid after our…
Preserving The Original A turret ring was delivered with the hull of our Renault FT in 2010. This was quite rare as most turret rings…
Boring away! The bodies for the FT and TSF are now close to being finished. There still remains much to be done in other areas.…
Completion The long awaited straps with buckles newly sewn on arrived. The discussion had been fairly intense throughout the process regarding the stitching thread colour…
An Eventful Weekend! As most of you will have noticed, despite our best efforts things did not got quite according to plan at Tankfest. We…
The new theory grows stronger – but Renault? Our last article covered the emergence of the new theory purporting to link the number stamped on…