WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY: Jagdpanther Restoration Supercut 

Never thought I would sit through 1 1/2 hours of cutting, welding, grinding and hammering. Really interesting and well worth watching. What a privilege for these men to restore this piece of history.

Thanks to you guys for bringing back this marvel of german engeneering. my granddad, who served on one of those machines has tears in his 95 year old eyes. Just for this, all your effort was worth it. I never saw this man in tears, til I showed him this video and translated it for him. he knew every part you were holding in your hands. I translated it for im simultaneously. Big hugs from an old and proud " Jagdpanther-Mann".

Being a welder an fabricator for over 50 years I'm constantly amazed at the skill and vision these men have in restoring a part of history that would be lost if not for them. The only regret I have is age an my health will never allow me to see in person the amazing works they have brought back to life for future generations to see. Well done and thankyou for sharing this and all your videos with a very thankful old man. I wish my father who fought from D-day thru the battle of the bulge he fought in 5 major battles and was highly decorated never lived long enough to enjoy watching these amazing videos. Thankyou so much!!!

What I love about these videos is you get to see the internals and hidden parts of the tank/tank destroyer. Normally you see everthing with the turret on, track guards, etc. To see the inside of the vehicle with the torsion bars, things like the final drive, etc is a rare sight that gives a better understanding.

I am amazed at your skill and dedication to recreate a tank from such incomplete, broken and rusted parts. Great job!

Good job. I believe the Jagdpanther is the most beautiful tank fighter of WWII and you have faithfully restored it. Thank you for sharing your work and exposing it to visitors.

That T34/85 in the background must be thing “ what are you doing…that took me ages to pull apart???”

As a 73 yr old retired metal worker I love to watch you guys at work, obviously enjoying what you do, ("sigh" I wish I lived in Cairns)

Kurt, i hope you have a monitor in front of these amazing builds with these videos on loop as many folk would not believe how they started out, the workmanship shown is outstanding and should be displayed alongside these incredible exhibits. Thanks for the journey guy's, loved it.

Vielen Dank, dass Sie dieses Zeugnis der Zeitgeschichte wieder aufgebaut haben! Grüße aus Eisenhüttenstadt/Brandenburg/Deutschland 🇩🇪

You guys should cut up the original off cuts into small pieces, around 25mm x 25mm. Sell them online with a nice certificate showing vehicle and details of its location when recovered from the battlefield. Maybe epoxy them into a nice display box or glass bell. Could easily raise thousands for the museum.

I'm am speechless, i am without Speech. Engineering Genius and a world-class completed WW2 project!

The Jagdpanther looks amazing, hope to see it running some day

I visited the museum in January 2024 with my son and dad. Truely first class. A destination worth travelling too. Amazing

Beautiful restoration! It's a pity it couldn't be restored as a runner. Well done, gentlemen!

They say do what you love every day and you will never work another day in your life....I'd love to do what these men do fixing up old tanks.....just bloodly awesome

As a US Army veteran who repaired Tanks and Bradley's and performed recovery missions for 15 yrs, and 3 tours in Iraq. I can't help but wonder how much of the stuff we used will become museum pieces in the future. I still have my helmet and my recovery crew helmet from my old M88a1. They are keep sakes now. But hey who knows about the future. Seeing these videos always brings that mindset out in me lol.

Have to praise the efforts of the film maker, as well as the guys building the tanks. Music and continuity of the scenes is very well done, and this makes it a joy to watch; with just the right amount of commentary too. 10/10 Kurt.

I’ve gone back and watched this again for a second or possibly a third time. What a cracking achievement. The envy of any armor museum the world over and the level of talent of the gents involved, is second to none. Well done gent’s!

Being a pipefitter and welder for 50+ years I really appreciated seeing this. Seeing the armour keyed was interesting. I also liked the way the track was tension-ed, instead of using a grease gun. My hats off to the skilled crew that brought this back together.

Excellent work gentlemen, you've got something to be proud of, and for generations people will be admiring your craftsmanship. Now y'all need a condensed version of this video to play in an area of the museum setup for just such things as that where people can be comfortable, and even rest a bit while watching several videos on the different builds y'all have put together out in the shop that came in baskets of miscellaneous broken pieces. Once again very well done, and I think the crew behind the cameras, as well as the editing staff for their fine work as well. From Greenville, Texas USA

You guys have restored a marvel. Being a veteran of Trident submarines I understand the beauty and terror of these engineering marvels. The only problem is it’s too pretty, needs some dirt and scrapes. Weapons of war are seldom clean and neat even when new.

The production value and high quality of the filming and editing really makes this one of the best tank museum channels on RU-vid imo

Iam just amazed - it seems like these technicians/mechanics were trained in the original factories. Their skill and knowledge to rebuild these vehicles of 80 years ago is just amazing.

Kurt - you my friend are progressing with your overall talents, on par with the tank projects! Which is to say, keep up the great work, all of this truly matters!

As a modelbuilder I'm a bit jealous at you guys - working with the real stuff...- what a job !

This has got to be my favorite restoration video ever. Its incredible work and to think the history and life the combined parts have seen is crazy. Incredible job. And not filling the pits makes is so much better.

Being German born in 63, I´m deeply impressed of the work you have done! I did a lot of restauration work on cars an bikes myself, but doing this on a tank is shurely a much more challenging task. Just the sheer massiveness of the components - especially when they are deeply rusted and bent by detonations - requires a completely different way of work. Not to mention the machinery that is decessary. I really apperciate your work bringing this rarity back to life. It can show the younger Australian generation what their great-grandfathers had to deal with fighting in WW II so far away from their homes. And what was the reason so many of them died fighting on the "right" side to bring the Nazi-craziness to an end. And to show us Germans, that we are defintly not the "Herrenrasse" but just a little part of mankind.

First, thank you for making a video of the restoration, it's an amazing amount of work for a wonderful turnout. You are true artists. Second, I love how you handled the social media dissenters regarding the backplate welding, polite, succinct, beautiful. If I ever make it to Australia, it will be to see this museum.

Best hour and twenty-six minutes and thirty-nine seconds I have spent on RU-vid. Imagine being a mechanic of one of these able to see this after all of the years. It would be a mind rush.

I'm looking forward to the AusArmor Kitshop offering this 1:1 scale Jagdpanther model kit!

Yall are the highlight of my week. LOVE yer show and just hope, someday, I can make it down under over yonder and come see yer place for myself. 🤠 greetings from TEXAS 🤠👊

Fascinating to watch you guys at work. Thanks for restoring the Jagdpanther.

mates , the panzerwaffe field workshops would be proud of you

Jagdpanther and the Jagdtiger were the best tank destroyers of WW2.👊🏼👍🏻💯💥

35:43 beautiful work on the lathe including the clip. I glad the battle damage is still there.

Thank you so much for restoring this beautiful tank. Thanks to every person that worked on it. Greetings from Germany.

Incredible effort and result. This should be on free to air television - I found it truly riveting (no pun intended) to watch this engineering marvel. You should all be proud of your work. Well done. Thank you for returning a piece of history back to life.

I am so so so thankful that you are reviving and preserving these parts of the great and engineered art of German history

I don’t know about y’all, but there was just something special about watching a Leopard tow the Jagdpanther. To see the evolution.

The "Jagdpanther" is a piece of German engineering. It's like art. The design doesn't look 80 years old... Like the "Hetzer" I love this sexy Tank.. more than the Tiger I. Or Panther A. These 2 guys are the saviors of the last Jagdpanther in the world (I think..) Brilliant! When i visit my Aunt in July in Brisbane, i will also visit the Museum ! 👍🏻👍🏻

Great work Kurt,cutting down the 6+hours into one 1.5 hour easy to watch doco, next task is to series all the footage together into a one play back to back so I can sit down on a rainy sunday with popcorn and a six pack and binge watch it all again! Sure there will be lots who just seen this for the first time or like me have followed it all the way who will join me! Jessie and Daryl have done great work, what a job! I will be up north winter next year, expect to see my name in visitors register, its a must see!

I wish I could like this more than once 👍🏻👍🏻. Top notch content gentleman 👍🏻😊👍🏻

Amazing work to everyone involved.Restoring not only a tank but history,thank you!

As a plastic modeller restoration projects really are a blessing on the level of detail you can achieve just by seeing the real vehicle being restored because so many kits are missing details and are not correct this is a joy to save history like this thank you for your good work.

This project has been a joy to watch. The dedication, enthusiasm, skill and damn hard graft has been truly inspirational ! I run a 1/6th r/c scale JP. Your series has been so useful for detail examination. Truly a superb job of which you should all be incredibly proud of providing future generations with a fabulous 'time piece'. 👏👏👏

History needs to be preserved, taught, and remembered. Not through the lens of modern values, but in its stark reality so the the mistakes of the past are not repeated. These gentlemen do important work. It was fascinating to watch them.

Fantastic work gentlemen! Thank you saving this important piece of history. The Jagdphanter is my favorite German WWII AFV. To call you master mechanics and fabricators would be an understatement, you are?artists!

These guys never cease to amaze me with their ingenuity and fabrication skills. They buy blown up scrap from Russian tank graveyard and assemble them into a beautiful museum piece.

Superb engineering by two top class professional men. PETER LINDOP UK.

Truly an amazing project. Please edit the part when Jessie painted the Jadgpanther and you put the track on,put that on RU-vid so armor modelers can find it. I bet they won't gripe about individual track links again.

Ob's stürmt oder schneit, ob die Sonne uns lacht.... Wunderbar gemacht Jungs...

A truly remarkable feat of engineering, fabrication, and passion. Watching this will forever change the way I look at any restored exhibit. Thank you Dez and Jesse for your commitment and skill in restoring this part of history for future generations to see.

The work your craftsmen perform is nothing short of mechanical magic. All of you are amazing. I watched your Armourfest … there were some amazing vehicles there. I was greatly saddened when the Panzer was made unable to fire. I think it would have been absolutely magical to see it fully alive and roaring. That said, I understand. Governments do what they do. I’ve visited other museums where hand held weapons from previous wars had been rendered inoperable as well. Painful, but it is what it is. Keep up the amazing work! I’m eagerly awaiting the next project!.

Wow. Just…wow! Excellent documentary. Makes me appreciate my 1/35 model of the Jagdpanther just that much more!

Jessie's non replaceable and very valuable for sure,I hope hes being pd accordingly cause hes worth it many times over ,as well as the other seasoned experienced men in this type of heavy guage steel reconstruction

"Neglected pile of metal' may be an understatement, but there's no overstating the result. Beautiful work.

I watched all the episodes of this build and watched it all over again with this video. Daz’s shorts will never get old 🤣. That guy is great!!!

Thank you, an outstanding collection of all the steps to the restoration of the Jagdpanther.

Never thought I'd see a Leopard Recovery tank on Australian soil. I've only seen them in Europe so far. Nothing but respect for the craftsmanship working with what you have and ZERO funding. just WOW!

Words can't describe how interesting your video is

The time work and dedication to assemble this piece of lost history is incredible, these two men brought back something that would have been never been seen again except in pictures, they are truly the masters of their craft, their patience and precision in bringing this tank back to life is a testimony to the human spirit and the things we can achieve if we only believe that we can do it.!!!!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I just binged the Grant restoration from start to finish over the past 3 days. Incredible work guys. Such knowledge and craftsmanship is sometimes overwhelming to my eyes and ears. One day I hope to get to the museum and see the result of the team's work with my own eyes. Congratulations guys. Job well done.

I have been in the huge museum in Cairns and I marvelled of its collection in hours wandering around so many incredible to see in reality things that you only see in fotographs and old news reels. It is my favorite atraction in Cairns, hands down. At first I thought that there was a factory somewhere in the world making new reproductions of these machines of old wars for museums around the world. Because they look to good and completed to be the real things. But now after watching this incredible video of restoring this tank from bits and pieces collected over many years following original drawings, I am trully in awe. This is a fantastic job. I got a lot of joy watching it. Thank you for existing and doing such a well done job building your incredible collection.

They know what there doing these chaps not just the cutting it's the knowledge of metallurgy needed the they posses great to watch plus being a heavy plant engineer it makes it more interesting for me anyway great vid

Having watched the series week by week I found this super cut just as satisfying to watch. Extremely well done. Thanks

Awesome content and editing - cheers Kurt

Could you please provide a 10 minute slow pan from every angle of the magnificent Jagpanther your museum heads resurrected the dead? Seriously. We would all love to see this. And every other tank in your collection.

Real history is not clean, pretty or nice. Humans are human and humans will almost always make messes out of things. That said? WOW, guys! The Jagdpanther was a rare beast in WWII, but a feared one. So cool to see the restoration process of such a magnificent monster. So much work to make them shine again. It is worth it for historians like myself. KEEP IT UP!

What a fantastic fruit they've accomplished !. So happy to watch complete version of this amazing build of Jagdpanther. As one of long time collector of Panzer parts( mainly track links ), I can easily imagine how hard to obtain those extremely rare original parts. Mr.Doyle must be happy to know his book really helped your project !.😊 Looking forward to watch your ever stopping new projects !.👍

What a pleasure this was to watch your progress and skill. Thank you! Really impressive

You guys did an outstanding job, just beautiful! You guys should be proud of the great work and research you do to bring true history to the masses. Thank you.

You guys are artists in the real meaning of the word. You brought this Jagdpanther back to life as if it drove out of the german production plant during the second world war. Outstanding job, congratulations and thanks for preserving all these tanks.❤💢💯👍🏻🤝🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

A deadly but beautiful piece of history.

What a great video. I love these armor/armour restorations, especially when it involves Tiger 1's, but my favorite is the Panther and it's variant, JagD's. What I was fascinated by, was that the sound of the pneumatic wrench, and the other tools sounded the same in Australia as it does here in the USA, plus they speak a derivative of English as well, ha ha.

honors to these metal men. I thoroughly enjoyed watching them take scrap metal and bar stock and make a tank destroyer. These guys ruled in machine shop class back in high school. Honors to their shop teachers and fathers for showing them how to arc weld, bend steel and turn .0001 off.

I'm so glad you did a Jagdpanther, my favorite tank. The craftmanship is top notch and i sat glued infront of the screen. Well pleased with the paintjob!

This fantastic hard work is something to be proud of and real craftsmanship, keep up the good work and preserve the result for the future generations. Commented from Germany.

Great video! Piecing that track together reminded me when I was in the military because we called that pin a "left handed drift pin" because your holding it with your left hand and either you or someone has a sledgehammer driving that pin in

EXCELLENT and CONGRATULATIONS. Not only you are paying tribute to these two individuals who spent thousand of hours rebuilding the Jadgepanther but also the historical even as well. Greetings from Mexico City.

Another stunning restoration You all should be proud Keeping history alive All the best from Ireland 🇮🇪

Love workshop wednesdays !

Nice to see 👀 Lotty doing her thing. Great driving. My compliments little lady, as always. How about an episode covering the back stories of each of the Aus Armour stars. How they came to work at the museum.

So beautiful! Incredible attention to detail rebuilding this monster really enjoyed this video thank you very much Daryl & Jessie!

The only thing better than this would be restoring this tank to be able to run and drive, and possibly even restoring (at least cosmetically) the interior, weapon positions and all. For a museum piece, you wouldn't want functional guns, but being able to open the hatch and see the inside would be amazing.

1:23:10 Important safety tip. Always lower a Jagdpanther off the jacks while you are under the tank.

I've contributed to the UK's repairs to the Bovingdon Tiger appeals over the years. But what pays for such an enormous reconstruction project like your JagdPanther? Great work guys!

Almost therapeutic watching this..... Well done, Guys...!

What most impresses me about this is what they started with…a scrapped-together piece of side-armor. It is like receiving a broken femur and creating a whole person around it in less than a year! Well done lads!

Thx for sharing this amazing project, loved every episode.

Und wieder ein stück deutsche Geschichte gerettet. Ihr seit Ehrenmänner. Danke das ich das sehen durfte. Jetzt fehlt nur noch das er wieder fahren kann.

Although it's a video game, I've played War Thunder for almost 10 years now. The JagdPanther has always been my favorite and I play it regularly. To see the level of effort displayed here with the weight of each part, without any of the internal parts, makes me truly appreciate the modeling and realism of the actual operation of the tank. It also gave me much greater appreciation of how the lack of a turret on the smaller Panther chassis enabled the mounting of an 88mm gun. It's best used as a long-range sniper instead of close quarter combat. In a hull down position on a ridgeline or down a very long street, this tank is/was amazing. 🙂

I don’t believe there will ever be another war where production across all industry is focused on war the way is was in ww2. The amount of equipment built between all the nations involved is mind blowing and a good amount of it was completely destroyed. And this was designed and built without computers, using paper drawings and math and it just worked. 🤯

Amazing! I love the Jagdpanther, you guys truly built a legend of a tank. Im looking forward for Pt. 2 where you all hopefully get it working. :D

Fantastic achievement well done 😎👍👍

A tribute to the skill of Aust Armour staff, well done.

Ein tolles Video und ein wunderbares Projekt. Schön zu sehen das Zeit angehalten wird und nichts unvergessen bleibt.

That's amazing lads, I've seen the one that was in London years ago, the sides cut open so you could see inside, it's an impressive vehicle when you see it up close, the one in London had x3 holes shot through the back end and you could put your hand through and feel how thick the armour is. What struck me was that with all the armour the force of the shape charge warhead that punched through must of been massive quite sobering when you realise that there probably was men inside when it happened....

That's an amazing collection you've built up! Could you please consider filming a speed tour of the museum at some stage?

I am thankful these guys have found a job which they love, and are creating results loved by so many. I hope they realize it, and enjoy every moment, while it lasts. Thanks for the great videos, and to the men doing amazing work on the restorations.