@@MilitaryArmamentsCompany Thanks again for this entire series. Thinking back to the old days of television shows like "Tank Restoration" on the "History" channel, it's just wonderful to get this in depth on a topic (and without the 2 minutes of recap after EVERY commercial break). All the best!
Thanks forbthis series, it's great to see people putting these machines back together and showing them to all us enthusiasts, I hope you get the chance to come to Australia and visit the Australian Armour and Artillery Museum, this myseum is in the state of Queensland, and also Pukapunyal Armour Museum ( on a working military base) in the state of Victoria, best regards from Australia 👍👍👍👍
Thankyou for watching and commenting! Our member Scott was posted to Puckapunyal for several courses and saw the museum. Still waiting to get ot Cairns, we are trying to get a point of contact there. Their Media guy, Kurt would be good.
The armor marks are from the face hardening processes. The Hetzer is covered with them, and it was done by hand. They align the molecules for the face hardening process.
@@MilitaryArmamentsCompany - Woohoo, I wouldn't miss this one for all the money in the world, building a Panzer IV out of original parts and hearing all the increadibly detailed comments, that's really something extraordinary !!!👍👍👍 I'm also following the Australien artillery and armour museum's video's, also veeery, veeery interesting !!!
Ha! Dimitri is our scale Model expert, he transitioned into 1:1 Scale with us. Check out our series on ''Weathing the T54." There is a lot of discussion and techniques from the modeling community on that series.
I can tell you why the prices on parts have skyrocketed. I started restoring in 1990 just for reference. Early 2000's more ultra rich guys started getting into the hobby and would pay any price for items. All vendors based prices off of them. I saw Stuart tanks go from 35k in 2005 to 350k in a short time. When you see dudes like the moron who owns Jelly Belly buying tanks ( and running over his lunch guest with it), you know it's now a fad or a neat toy, and that tragedy as a result of that type of thought.
Good analogy, sad analogy. Our team combined has visited all the greats, subsequently seeing many great things sadly locked away rotting simply so they can 'have them'.
I told Ron a few years ago when our 250/9 restoration is finished, we will bring it up to his place for a WW2 weekend or something like that so others can check it out.@@MilitaryArmamentsCompany
