I love the outtakes at the end; because, for all of us who are one-man production teams on RU-vid, you've validated we're not the only one with a script stuffed in our back pocket whilst shooting dozens upon dozens of takes to get it just right. Thanks for demonstrating we're not machines. 📽 🤓
I agree I think Kurt does great maybe it would be simpler to show drone shots of inside and outside of museum while he reads his introduction. We don’t need to see him every time we know how handsome he is .
Just think all those linkages and levers were designed without computers and on paper drawings. Kinda mind boggling. Very cool to see it come together.
I was thinking at the beginning - Kurt is back up to full strength, but seeing his outtakes we can understanding why there's a workshop video only once per week !!! Ha Ha - excellent progress Beau and Glen and good to see Kurt almost back to 100% !!
Thank you, Beau & Kurt, for another episode that has flown by. I truly feel part of the Stug project, having been here from the beginning. Witnessing its progress has been incredible. And that music-I dread it because it signals the end of my weekly indulgence. Cheers
Even though it was about 5:00 AM EST when the video dropped, I perked right up when your name was mentioned...."Did AusArmor just mention Adam Mann?? Cool!" They definitely consulted the right guy about Stugs.
12:05 - the venerable rubber whacker. No toolbox is complete without one. I love Workshop Wednesdays. Out of all the millions of things in the Ewe Toob universe, it is something I really look forward to every week.
Such should be the primary present & right of passage tool for every boys 5th birthday? IE: "Look, itsa HAMMER, but its made outta RUBBER, Watch...!BONK!...Ow!"....... I know very FEW grown men that cant recall that particular youthful episode &/or verification of technology presentation. The ones that cant recall such an event no doubt hit themselves TOO HARD....;)
@@creightonleerose582 I saw a 17 year old apprentice knock himself half out with a rubber mallet once. There were roars of laughter that day, except from him. He went home with an egg 😂
@@ray.shoesmith OMG?!..BaaaaaaHaHaHa! "Apprentice" is certainly RIGHT eh?..Ha! Guess he'd learned a valuable lesson that day? I dunno how he'd survived early toddler-hood n' adolescence?!...Er,..Um,.....Hmm?.... Oh wait, -NOW I DO!...;) Bet ya'allz had some fun with him? "Please findeth me the pipe/paint-stretcher/Blinker fluid yee young man"... Thanks for share/good laugh...;)
Workshop Wednesday's are simply just not long enough 😢 you guys just make it look so easy working on this old iron so you know it's not ! So much skill and knowledge, please make more video's or longer episodes 🙏 😊
Pretty cool/simple method to use the centrifugal force present within already existing parts to accomplish a secondary task. I wonder what the pad material was made from as to WW2 German tanks & AFV's? -Prob Asbestos?... In that case, YES, you'd DEF want such piped >> outtve >> the vehicle!...But still dangerous, as I cant see such a unique system capturing, collecting, containing & extracting 100% of the brake dust outtve the brake drum or crew compartment itself?....
Thank you Kurt for sharing your bloopers on the intro. Just shows you are human and not everything goes to plan, and you have a sense of humor and can laugh at yourself and share that laugh with the rest of us so again thank and all of you at the museum keep up the great work and look forward to next Wednesday for the last round.
Aus Armor videos are one of the hi lights to my week. They’re such a joy to watch, and such a letdown when they end. The creativity, tradecraft, and historically informative content are amazing to witness. If I ever have the opportunity to visit Australia from the US, your museum and workshop are at the top of my bucket list. Thank you for the love of historical accuracy and preservation you put into all of your exhibits. You all are truly amazing.
You know, thanks for the outtakes, because it shows that you put a ton of work into making the videos. But to be honest, you make it look easy from this side of the camera. Great job Aus Armor.
Don't normally comment but I saw the first video drop which was replaced by this one. I got two Aus-armour videos today! Pretty happy! Also, loved the out-takes. Really love this channel, next time I'm in Cairns I'll definitely come n visit.
When I saw the rod end yoke had a notched shank I wondered if it was for a clevis pin spring clip, took a look and all the modern ones stop to the sides but never seem to reach around to where the notch is. Not saying that WW2 German vehicles didn't have them but Beau might be right about a safety clip for the nut although I can't say I've seen that before, but have seen two jam nuts used there and nylocks. I do enjoy AusArmour restoring these old vehicles and of course Kurt's camera work, with Many Thanks!
I can agree with all the comments. At 54K views, Aus Armour is doing it right. Great work by all, as always, and Kurt, thanks brother for showing us what it takes to get such a quality result every week. I too dread hearing that the soothing music. Over too soon. Next week can't come soon enough. A great fix for the week. A retired Canuck, I could watch more, all day! But that would mean more editing time for Kurt, so I'll just be thankful for each week's episode we are blessed to see.
Another great Episode, thanks Guys! Nice to hear that Evan McCallum and Adam Man shared some Information on the paintjob. They are great guy and knows their StuGs
All good, keep the out takes… Effn learious! ‘Lot going on! But it can all be played with inside the hull. Great to watch you guys go at these projects..
Fantastic video as always....I gotta say, this has become one of my absolute favourite channels - informative, entertaining, and with a fun sense of humour driven by Kurt, and his layman interactions with the crew. Great stuff!
You all are an inspiration, I am making a 1/2 scale Stug out of wood and powered by a gocart engine. I was going to do a Tiger, however could not fund good drawings. So a Stug it was.
Another fun watch! Thank you Kurt for putting these together and for filming the lads and all the hard work they do. I still marvel at, and am envious of, the lads being able to build and work on these awesome vehicles and equipment every day. My literal dream job. I truly love Wednesday's for being able to see the latest episode of AusArmor TV, aka Workshop Wednesday's. Keep up the great work lads! Can't wait for next week's episode.
I love this channel and my wife loves your Australian accent. The attention to detail assembling these monster of vehicles is truly amazing. We really enjoyed the bloopers segment also
Hi Kurt the outtakes were great, you get there in the end, I absolutely enjoyed my time at the museum in April, in so e ways there is too muvh to see in one visit, best regsrds from a Kiwi living in Melbourne, Les
Good morning from Virginia! One more great video, they are just to short!!! Curtis you gave your secrete away. We thought these videos were a one take breeze. Beau, you make the most complicated workings on a Stug sound simple. Big round of applause for Dmitri and his planning ahead on parts ordering!!!!
Bloopers RULES. Another amazing material from the restoration process which is extremely helpful during the scale model assembly. It displays better that any other materials available on the net how the mechanism works which can use by scale modellers ( for me too ). to enhance their full interior models build. That video helped me a lot to understand the concept and to build closest to the original the rods passage. THANK YOU!
A good bit of thought has gone into those brakes. Being inside the crew compartment, there would be a danger of asbestos brake shoe material contaminating the atmosphere, but they fitted extractor fans to get rid of the dust. Very neat idea.
Found the site by accident guys, and found it great as I have a 1/16 ssacale kit to build of the Stuggi.No interior unfortunatly but it will have a full gun assembly and command equipment. They were one of the most numerious of the german armour over the more common names like Panzer & Tiger. You dont have a series on the Sdkfz 251D by any chance.? I have a 1/16 scale with full interior engine etc on the blocks after the Stug to build. Great to see it being restored.👍
LOL...The bloopers at the end of your video were priceless Kurt ! I now understand why you take a few days off when you're under the weather. Your job sure requires a CLEAR MIND.
What a wonderful job. That's not employment, it's a dream come true ! Working out the genius behind the design, to find what is missing and how it should've worked. What a divine mixture of skills, Renovation, Restoration, fabrication and a detective story ! Thanks for 22 minutes of pure escapism.👍🏼 It's what Wednesdays were made for.🤔
Similar sort of throttle linkage to that which I had in my old '61 Land Rover. No cables or drive by wire there, it was a series of cranks and rods from the peddle to the carb.
As always, amazing and entertaining. I'm consistently blown away by how much forklifts can actually lift and move. They actually picked up this tank body to remove the temporary support pillars. Incredible.
As a retired photographer I have recorded thousands and thousands of stand-up's and I just told reporters to remember 2 or 3 points and to BS the rest. It generally helps the editor if there is a pause between takes and what you are doing is not natural so you are doing a good job.
Watching your show is addictive, only problem, for me, is your show is a little short and leaves me hung up till the next one. Keep up the good work and saving the past for future generations to study and learn about. 🤠 Texas here!
It might help to write the intro on a white board and read from there? Just an idea. Quite some engineering gone into those tanks although all tanks would have had similar working parts. Certainly kept an assembly line busy.
Those out-takes were absolutely HILARIOUS, I spat my coffee out laughing so much! I love all the work that you guys are doing. Also, adding that little snippet at the end, makes us love all you guys so much more!!
So then the Stug was easier and cheaper to build . . . Looking at your fantastic job ( twice today ) it doesn't look that easy . I love to look at your fantastic job on all these 80 years old vehicles . Thank you for sharing . Cheers from Belgium .
For quite some time, Kenworth trucks used torsion bar suspension on their prime movers. Known in the industry as "broom sticks" they had a heavy rating for GCM. It was possible for them to snap. There is a story that a truckie broke down in outback queensland, and had a friend fly out a new torsion bar in a cessna..........but there was nowhere to land. So his friend threw the torsion bar out the plane at low altitude near the broken down truck.
We want more, we want more.... Before the vid starts you have my Like already. At the end of May there is a Militracks in Overloon, Netherlands, again. Dozens of driving German ww2 vehicles. I am busy with my 1940 Opel and some parts are in Feldgrau already. Regards from the Battle of the Bulge area.
Thanks for the continuing entertainment, and the look at the mifts and wifs that Kurt goes through to bring the polished version to the show. Well done fellows thanks
I am glad that camera man/dude who explains us what is going on,does know what he is trying to tell us. After a couple of try's ;-) Keep those fragments in,lovely to see it is still a persons job,not a robot 🙂
Love your work guys. Thanks. You have to wonder how they originally decided to use so many moving parts. It's as if they had a build requirement, and then fit it in around what was already designed. I am sure it was more technical than that, but looks at these legacies we have.
Great work on the brakes. Bo or Beau surely is a craftsman. For a Ginger. Never knew he was a curly haired Ginger. He has the skills of one of the Dwarf Blacksmiths of Asgard. He does do what seems to be magic work sometimes. Does he have engineering training, or does he have a natural eye for spacial mechanics. I noticed Dez has similar skills for figuring things out also. Your whole staff seems to be very talented in their own niches. It is a pleasure to watch people knowing what they are doing. After this project take a run down to Brisbane and look up Jade Blair.
Great video today. The intricate details of the stug is incredible. So amazing to see this thing come together. Can't wait for the next video. See ya on fix it Friday with Steve.
Kurt great beard . You can confidently appear in a reconstruction of the return of a U-boat from a combat voyage in the Atlantic : ) And seriously you are doing a really great and professional job . Best regards to the whole team . Chapeau bas . Regular fan from Poland living in Switzerland . Here for years they can not cope with the restoration of a Complete copy of the King's Tiger captured intact . Museum in Fully-Reunthal . Good luck in your further work .
