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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
Decoding the Sd.Kfz.223’s Historical Paint Secrets Initial Investigations and Historical Insights Our initial investigation into the external paint treatment of our Sd.Kfz.223 (Ausf.A) 3.Serie was…
Topfblende – a MIAG matter of fact Given the significant current interest in Sturmgeschütz, prompted by the release of new model kits, we thought it…
The restoration of the Foundation’s ‘Black Sea Stu.G’ was completed many years ago. Of course, as time progresses, we continue to learn more about the…
The Foundation continues to publish research on what we do in our various projects. Subjects are provided by the projects we are working on or…
Part of the challenge in researching vehicles assembled before or early in the Second World War is the lack of surviving examples or period documentation.…
For most armoured vehicles there is a lack of documentation about on the storage arrangements inside the vehicle. Modelmakers especially wonder how the Weald Foundation…