Le.Pz.Sp.Wg (FU) (Sd.Kfz.223) Ausf.A -3.Serie – Open Item List
Members often ask how we are progressing with the restoration of the Foundations Le.Pz.Sp.Wg (FU) (Sd.Kfz.223) Ausf.A -3.Serie. On the one hand we are tremendously…
Members often ask how we are progressing with the restoration of the Foundations Le.Pz.Sp.Wg (FU) (Sd.Kfz.223) Ausf.A -3.Serie. On the one hand we are tremendously…
Part I – First impressions – Versailles Back in the early 1990s while attending the various Militaria meets in Normandy and Germany a picture was…
Some weeks ago, we were able to announce that a team from Panzer Farm in Poland had extracted several wrecks from the Czarna Nida river…
Following the recent much acclaimed World War I Event held here at the Foundation we have been asked to summarise the details of the five-digit…
As the impressive barrel and recoil mechanism of our 8.8cm Panzerjägerkanone 43 (L/71) (8,8cm Pak 43) sits outside our main workshop, following each Open Day…
The years of research undertaken to establish the correct text and font for the Notice fitted to the underside of the driver’s door hatches resulted…
The dressing of the Swiss Panzerjäger G13 to appear like its partial predecessor, the Jagdpanzer 38 can only be described as the “pyrite” (fool’s gold)…
Our journey thus far has been to determine the finish of the Schaltbrett since we had already determined that this version was made of a…
Falling Between Two Stools The last article we posted on Funkgerät (Radio Equipment) for the Sd.Kfz.223 (Ausf.A) 3.Serie in Inside Track was back in 2020.…
At the Weald Foundation our projects are never considered finished until each and every small component has been found and added. For most of our…
Who was to know that the Foundation would face major challenges restoring three original seats for our armoured cars. Realisation that we had this challenge…
On Site Archaeology Progress on the Foundation’s Sd.Kfz.223 (Ausf.A) 3.Serie project has picked up in recent months. The experience the team gained in restoring our…
The nexus of the restoration projects that the Weald Foundation acquire could be viewed by many as ‘madness’ or scrapheap candidates. The decision to acquire…
A difficulty we have encountered since our ‘Peeling Back The Onion Layers’ article that we published last week is determining the layers that would constitute…
Part 1. Stridsvagen m/41 based fakes A recent video on social media highlighted a fake that was claimed to be a Pz.Kpfw.38(t). This is far…
Part 1 – Peeling Back the Layers of the Onion For our Sd.Kfz.223 (Ausf.A) 3.Serie the Foundation has the unique restoration objective to return this…
The investigation into the fittings required for the Schalbrett (Dashboard – instrument panel) has led us to several interesting new discoveries. The evolution of the…
As Weald Foundation members who keep up to date with the Inside Track articles will realise there was a change from steel Schaltbrett to control…
One of the quirkier parts we have had to research is the Abstossleiste or kick strip which is positioned on the floor just in front…
The research team at the Weald Foundation, like many vehicle restorers and model makers, is always excited to acquire copies of original manuals. But it…
One of the more iconic details to see on the recently assembled Sd.Kfz.223 3.Serie examples are the Sd.Kfz.223 (Ausf.A) 3.Serie – Bremschlussleuchteschutz (brake light protectors).…