WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY: A new StuG III RESTORATION PROJECT!

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The Australian Armour & Artillery Museum

2 ай бұрын

One can never have too many StuG IIIs.....
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@tdb7992 2 ай бұрын

I really hope Dimitri can come visit Australia and see the StuG III finished. He seems like such a great guy. That opening scene was brilliant.

@johnanon6938 2 ай бұрын

Can Kurt, Beau or someone at the museum adopt Dimitri so we see him more often and of course you'll have to visit him more often too in that wonderful shop of his.

@TheSaturnV 2 ай бұрын

Dimitri needs his own weekly show! What a knowledge base he has.

@westmus 2 ай бұрын

But if Dimitri started to do YT Videos he would have less time to find parts, gather knowledge and do restoration. He clearly got all the knowledge and the magic parts bin, because that's an fucus for him.

@brianwilliams8361 2 ай бұрын

Very different to his appearances with Bruce Crompton ,

@madmoses7830 2 ай бұрын

Anyone who wears military fatigues around a workshop definitely should have is own show!

@tonyromano6220 2 ай бұрын

He is amazing.

@66kbm 2 ай бұрын

That intro with Dimitri....Hi im Kurt from Aus Armour.... is excellent and really funny.

@BernhardtBauer 2 ай бұрын

I know right? xD From the reaction of the guys, it might've not even been planned!

@Gibbo919 2 ай бұрын

A Mr. Hewes video AND workshop wednesday? Best wednesday ever

@HailHydra27 2 ай бұрын

Aus Armour needs to get a british spec centurion or something from them for the ultimate crossover

@TheSussexpillbox 2 ай бұрын

I did the same as well!

@corpnut2906 2 ай бұрын

good stuff there on both channels

@ruebencover5795 2 ай бұрын

Very true 👍

@BF5player 2 ай бұрын

There’s currently no surviving stug iii ausf B in existence and for AAAM to restore one or should I say assemble one in such complete original condition with period correct parts is astonishing it will look great next to the stug iii A also a lone survivor featuring the early superstructure no tank museum in the world has 2 stug iii with the short barreled gun making their stug collection the best in the world with Ausf A,B, F all only surviving examples, ausf G late war April 1945 production, stuh 42 and early stug iv

@cheetahgamerz9448 2 ай бұрын

Plus don't AAAM have the lone surviving Ausf. A too?

@Pistol0291 2 ай бұрын

Dimitri is such a well known figure in the combat restoration world. I've seen him twice on oz armour and he's popped up a few times in combat dealers here in UK A very knowledgeable guy and a fair dealer. His reputation proceeds him wherever he goes

@stumclean1946 2 ай бұрын

Stunning that 80 years later you can find this stuff in great condition .Thanks for showing love it all.Stu

@davelewsam5214 2 ай бұрын

The knowledge these guys possess is fantastic. So happy this is being preserved for future generations.

@warrenhunt5556 2 ай бұрын

Thanks Kurt, Beau and Dimtri for making me absolutely bloody gob smacked! The knowledge that Dimitri has, commands my utmost respect for him. There's a person I would like to have a beer or two on ANZAC day with. Thank you gentleman!

@Th.G.M. 2 ай бұрын

I am blown away by this episode! Wow, what cool finds Dmitri has dug out, and still working!

@chopper7352 2 ай бұрын

A great one liner by Dimitri regarding finding the Gun sight ...."No..It's not hard...it's impossible" ! ...& he did find one. 👍

@elmorientez3787 2 ай бұрын

Wee box of bits you weren't sure about are ice cleats that can be pushed through and pinned into the tracks for added grip in icy conditions

@bpdp379 2 ай бұрын

Grouser is what we called them.

@petertube4555 2 ай бұрын

Hammerstollen

@anumeon 2 ай бұрын

"Of course. More hours, more money from state" Statement of the year right there.:)

@GilbertdeClare0704 2 ай бұрын

and evidencing the Socialist nature of National Socialism

@dnocturn84 2 ай бұрын

@@GilbertdeClare0704 Actually more hours = more money = more profit; which is waaaay more capitalist thinking. Being required to transparently share the work load needed with the government is the socialist ingredient here. And also an authoritarian measure to reduce manufacturer costs.

@bebo4807 2 ай бұрын

You mean naked capitalist greed and corruption.

@MrCarGuy 2 ай бұрын

It may have been the fastest method. Many variables

@re1644 2 ай бұрын

Kurt happy: You have all the sights Dimity: Everything... Of course You can feel the satisfaction there. I need to see it completed, really badly

@user-ey3st2qs5u 2 ай бұрын

Ahoooooooj pozdrav z České republiky 😊😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤🎉a přeji vám úspěšně dokončení projektu Marťas 😊

@dukenukem8381 2 ай бұрын

Petr Pavel can find millions of shells.

@murmaider2 2 ай бұрын

Dimitri has a great personality. Gotta love the Czechs.

@DOMINIK99013 2 ай бұрын

Dimitri is not Czech name at all, he is Russian.

@JustRedDude 2 ай бұрын

-No it's not hard... It's impossible... (Said Dmitry, who made it possible) Such a great work on that. I'm speechless and I love it.

@shed66215 2 ай бұрын

Beau's knowledge is awesome - being able to identify subtle differences between various incarnations of the same vehicle and the parts within must have taken an awful lot of time studying various manuals and books describing the history of StuG III 'family'...but then being able to put them together is on another level.

@markfryer9880 2 ай бұрын

I agree! I was watching and paying close attention to what Bo was saying and I was impressed with his depth of knowledge of Stugs and the slightest variations between models. He definitely knows his stuff and he must have read heaps of manuals and resource books, pouring over heaps of photos. Dare I say that he may very well have dreamed of Stugs as his brain sorted out all of the information. I am very impressed and Aus Armour should be very proud to have such a professional employee working for them. (Hope that little plug gets you a pay rise Bo! 😊) Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺 Former Australian Army Reservist '88 to mid 90s Signals and Engineers

@samleigh7817 2 ай бұрын

You could see in his eyes ‘Yeah great I was able to make up all those parts for our Stug, but why oh why didn’t we come here first?’

@shed66215 2 ай бұрын

@@samleigh7817 Same reactions as to when they saw the Grant parts on that farm, before then visiting the other chap who had complete hulls

@negativematt 2 ай бұрын

I'm an automotive restoration/fabricator who is a massive WW2 aviation nut. I was a Blackhawk mechanic in the Army as well. I found your channel about a year ago and thoroughly enjoy watching the guys work and learning about equipment from the war I never knew about! Love this episode and the "Grant "barn find" series"! Keep it up boys!

@gerardhogan3 2 ай бұрын

I could watch this stuff all day. Dimitri is such a great fella. Kurt you gotta bring him, the chaps from the British school of Armour Tank Museum and Mr Hewes out to Australia and have a Q&A

@mikeschillinger4427 2 ай бұрын

Joe's a farmer. I don't think he can handle being airborne. There's no mud up there😂

@Culwhch 2 ай бұрын

Thanks, another great Wednesday night viewing!

@stubstoo6331 2 ай бұрын

Wednesday morning here.😁😁

@gerhard6105 2 ай бұрын

Evening here 🇧🇪

@TheSlugstoppa 2 ай бұрын

It honestly looks like a scaled - up Tamiya model, shake it and it's built. And that gun restoration is Outstanding.

@cheetahgamerz9448 2 ай бұрын

Especially since Dimitri kept the kill rings

@scottburton509 2 ай бұрын

Can't wait until the history is researched. The kill rings alone speak volumes.

@danmorris8714 2 ай бұрын

The fact that it looks like the StuG hull fits in that container puts into perspective how small it is

@ianstewartbrown5308 2 ай бұрын

This is going to be a great build, Beau and Kurt like two kids on Christmas morning opening their presents

@babuzzard6470 2 ай бұрын

Gotta love Dimitri, it’s all there~ of course!😂 poor Beau is like a kid in a Lolly shop, doesn’t know what to look at first.🇦🇺

@jdshqs 2 ай бұрын

i want to have a beer with dimitri, bloke looks like a legend

@speedmachine69 2 ай бұрын

What a delightful guy Dimitri is..... I'm certain he enjoyed kicking around with you chaps.....

@garycharland3018 2 ай бұрын

Amazing stuff. The knowledge Dimitri has acquired is something else.

@williamlloyd3769 2 ай бұрын

Amazing that these parts weren’t scraped long ago. Glad to see the restoration looks to be happening. Can you imagine manufacturing all these machine parts in WW2 at various factories and putting it together during a war?

@ianmckay1780 2 ай бұрын

As usual, your channel has surpassed itself again. I am just sorry I will never get to see the museum in the flesh. thanks for letting me dream anyway. From UK.

@rolandrolandson8017 2 ай бұрын

The items in the box (at 2.40) are Hammerstollen, mounted to the tracks for better traction in winter time de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Hammerstollen.jpg And a big "Thank you!" to the fantastic Australien Armour & Artillery Museum always providing us with great content.

@johnanon6938 2 ай бұрын

This was the best intro by Kurt welcoming us to workshop Wednesday, Thank you Kurt! :)

@Wally-H 2 ай бұрын

Superb video, you guys make my day when you come out with something like this. The job you are doing for historical preservation is priceless.

@klazarou 2 ай бұрын

Love the new Kurt

@markbehr88 2 ай бұрын

That was a great episode on so many different levels. Fascinating. The Puma. Wow!

@markhorrell9213 2 ай бұрын

I'm astounded by this collection...even more so as so much war materiel was quite quickly scrapped (relatively) after the 2nd wld war. That so much still survives "out in the wild" and in numerous private hands is a testiment to restorers everywhere. Todays ephisode is a wonderful sight to behold! Thanks for making my day yet again

@williamstoutjesdijk-ry2oz 2 ай бұрын

Good video and Dimitri seems to be a good guy. He clearly knows his stuff.

@aserta 2 ай бұрын

I know the sensation the lads felt when they saw the pristine example. I've had it happen many times. You see the differences the clean sheet, sometimes you see mistakes you've made. It's a neat moment.

@ChrisRudland-England 2 ай бұрын

Thanks, Kurt, Beau and Dimtri, your knowledge Beau is incredible. You look like me when I go abroad, I'll lend you my iron so you can flatten that shirt out!

@ondoogretchtub 2 ай бұрын

Really look forward to watching Workshop Wednesday every week.

@Tyler-sy7jo 6 күн бұрын

As soon as he said that room plate was german, 100 built and non surviving my mind immediately went to Sd.Kfz. 234/2 "Puma". With how often it shows up in media, you wouldn't think it was only 100 built out of necessity to use the turrets built for the cancelled Leopard project on something. Shame none survive today, it seemed like it was quite the beast. And I agree with Dimitri, it is one of the most beautiful armoured vehicles.

@johnwheeler3023 2 ай бұрын

The rings on the gun...that would really send shivers down the spine and have hairs standing straight up to just be in its presence. Dimitri's knowledge is as if he is a reincarnated RLM design engineer from the 30's and 40's.

@lukefriesenhahn8186 2 ай бұрын

A candy store for historic tank and vehicle enthusiasts. 😎

@dbaider9467 2 ай бұрын

I could listen to that guy all day. It is a very niche market he sells into and he really knows his stuff. Great episode.

@garysimpson8860 2 ай бұрын

I could watch hours and hours of this , amazing seeing what he has all over the place . Great video 👍

@morstyrannis1951 2 ай бұрын

Nicholas Moran - AKA The Chieftain - demonstrated a main gun safety switch used by a loader in a contemporary Abrams tank that works the same way.

@jamestiberiuskirk5994 2 ай бұрын

Forget google y'all are walking encyclopedias with the wealth of knowledge you have.

@davidbenson3931 2 ай бұрын

GREAT show I always look forward to Workshop Wednesday amazing stug parts. I CANT WAIT to see the finished stug.

@woody5109 2 ай бұрын

The buildings there are fabulous, absolutely fabulous.

@provjaro Ай бұрын

Something real special behind!

@CigarAttache 2 ай бұрын

The pieces from the Puma were awesome. Dimitri must be a blast to have a beer and a cigar with 👍👍

@cpawp 2 ай бұрын

A treasure hunt - you can really feel the excitment ...

@schwabrichard9829 2 ай бұрын

Santa's Workshop combined with Aladdin`s Cave! 🙂 That describes Dimitri's parts yard and facility! ☺I worked with a man who was conscripted in 1940 and trained as a radioman. He was assigned to a field artillery unit. That unit was given to Stug III`s and trained for Barbarossa. They lost the last Stug in Stalingrad. He was wounded and flown out. He and his family came to the US in the 1950`s.

@mikeschillinger4427 2 ай бұрын

I can only imagine the stories he could tell.

@Cadfael007 2 ай бұрын

Hi Curt, im a native German speaker. "G" is often pronounced like a "K" in German. So, it's written "StuG" but most Germans say "SchtuK". Much easyer! And for the "III" (Drei) you can say "Dry". So, it's "SchtuK Dry"....

@battlejitney2197 2 ай бұрын

Excellent intro by Dimitri!

@michaelguerin56 Ай бұрын

Great video. What Dimtri said about private companies acting to increase chargeable hours would also apply to US aircraft bomb fuses during WW2. About thirty years ago, we built a couple of townhouses next door to a an RNZAF WW2 ground crew veteran who served in the Pacific Theatre. He advised that the British fuses only took a 6?/12? turns to arm-via a mini-propeller-once the bomb was released but the American fuses took far more turns. I forget the number of turns but it may have been 120. Sometimes … when things got busy, the armourers might not give the fuses all the necessary pre wind and the bombs would not go off!

@outlet6989 2 ай бұрын

"So simple to assemble, a child could do it." Skilled workers were in short supply toward the end of the war. Components to be joined were painted with the same letter to assist them in the building process. This simple construction technique showed the unskilled workers those parts that were attached to each other.

@Maiko100876 2 ай бұрын

Dimitri is a GIFT. PERIOD. his knowledge and Panzer Farm, they’er isn’t anything that can’t be found for restoration. Just wonderful.

@macspyart 2 ай бұрын

HahA Kurt zamienił się w Dimitriego :) Niezła zamiana :)

@Bill53AD 2 ай бұрын

Great video. I could move into Dimitri's yard and spend the rest of my life working on the parts.

@miketanner2150 2 ай бұрын

Hey Beau, take the tissues out of your pockets before washing your shirts :)

@peter9314 2 ай бұрын

So many details and knowledge. It#s pure gold.

@prillewitz 2 ай бұрын

These guys really know their thing and the history of the production of these Stugs, unbelievable.

@RoFKillaBacon 2 ай бұрын

You and beau are so entertaining, especially the face beau makes as he pops out of the stug casemate. Still wanna know what those pants are he's always wearing I need some good work pants

@Jeales12 2 ай бұрын

They look like King-Gee work cool 2

@Rusty-Story 2 ай бұрын

Looking forward to seeing the finished driving example next week 😊

@Mizone505 2 ай бұрын

That safety system on the short barrel is similar to the system on the Australian leopard. Once the loader loaded the round he hit the circuit switch to open the circuit. 105 gun was electrically fired. A red light on the panel above the gun illuminated telling everyone the gun was loaded and ready to fire. As well as yelling the command "loaded"out😀

@scottburton509 2 ай бұрын

Had something similar on the Abrams

@Mizone505 2 ай бұрын

@@scottburton509 yeah it does

@clay9181 2 ай бұрын

The Stug III is ideal for home defense

@lysanderkrieg5474 2 ай бұрын

So much cool stuff. Stuff heaven, when I die, bury me in Dimitri's yard. Guessed the 234/2 turret roof straight away, only because I am currently building a 1/35 scale one. That original T.Rbl.F.3 sight is more precious than Rhodium. Thanks for sharing this with us.

@Cydonius1701 2 ай бұрын

Cześć, jestem Kurt z Aus Armour, i witam w Środę w Warsztatach! 😅

@fredfarnackle5455 2 ай бұрын

A veritable cornucopia of Stug parts. I look forward to seeing what is crammed into the shipping container wen it gets to Ausarmour.

@traumgeist 2 ай бұрын

Never thought I’d see a full scale OEM period correct Stug 3 kit get packed and shipped.

@mikeschillinger4427 2 ай бұрын

StuG 3 in CKD form, some assembly required. I'd love that under my Christmas tree. 😂

@nickjamesbixch5367 2 ай бұрын

Best intro yet!

@davekreitzer4358 2 ай бұрын

Very much appreciated and enjoy these European trips , very knowledgeable contacts , nice folks and what they have collected is absolutely Outstanding history ! 👍

@andrewlerdard-dickson5201 2 ай бұрын

The German Tiger l Ace...Michel Wittmann was trained as a Commander of a StrumGeschutz lll ausf B in 1940 as the "Schonberg Battalion 1st SS L.A.H. " and continued all the way through until he was sent onto Officer training school in Bad Tolz in June 1942

@johnnewman366 2 ай бұрын

Pretty impressive StuG III collection Aus Armour is building. Four StuG III - A, B, F and G. (The B and G under restoration). They also have a StuH 42. Cheers,

@raykaufman7156 Ай бұрын

That was INCREDIBLY interesting.

@buitenb 2 ай бұрын

The “ Stug Life “ with Beau !

@tomstephens2648 2 ай бұрын

Did Beau?Walk threw a fluff storm with his shirt.LOLTwo kids in a Lollie shop.Another great episode.

@mikeschillinger4427 2 ай бұрын

I love these mini series.

@dankorolyk5917 2 ай бұрын

Looking forward to another great project from the guys.

@larrysmith4918 2 ай бұрын

Awesome content, Such a gracious and intelligent person, he is a gift to the restoration community. 🍿

@ianbell5611 2 ай бұрын

Another Great video. Wow Dimitri and his team have done an amazing job. I agree with the previous comment it would great if he and his team could visit Australia. Cheers

@scottcannell5584 2 ай бұрын

Looking forward to next week's episode and when they finally start to assemble it. Wow

@alexrandall3685 2 ай бұрын

Tank kids in a sweet shop.

@johnbradshaw354 2 ай бұрын

Great Video Kurt thank you. Dmitri's knowledge is very deep when it comes to German vehicles for sure. He has a large number of Tiger 1 parts I believe which are not for sale.

@davidkimmel5153 24 күн бұрын

Like a kid in the candy store 😊

@OgdenTunkRR 2 ай бұрын

The best comment for me was that the puma is still buried in the ground somewhere 😂

@speedhump231 2 ай бұрын

There comes a point when you are no longer collecting for a museum, but for an active Stug platoon

@jamesthomson3774 2 ай бұрын

It is amazing how many parts of ww2 equipment are still found,

@scottburton509 2 ай бұрын

Friend of mine dropped by one day. He was repairing a DC-3 engine. Shown me a few parts in WW2 original packaging he'd ordered for the engine.

@mikeschillinger4427 2 ай бұрын

There are lots of bits still left in Russia. There are a few channels detailing the digs such as the black diggers, who detail such recovery efforts. Any German war dead are repatriated with military honors back to Germany. Some are identifiable from their ID tags, some are not but all are sent home to Germany for proper burial.

@matttiggerward6147 2 ай бұрын

What he has obtained and the work they do is just insane! The quality is out of this world and the knowledge is amazing. He needs to produce a series of books about this stuff as he has so much information at his fingertips it needs to be shared.

@brandons9398 2 ай бұрын

That is one very impressive the salvage yard😊

@Omnihil777 2 ай бұрын

The yellow rag in the transmission at 16:52 is a german "staubtuch", a dust wipe. We got a bunch of very old ones from our grandma. Don't know why they look like this, but they always did apparently. Ours are almost as old as a StuG & still great.

@andrewsteele7663 2 ай бұрын

Thanks Kurt, just watching Beau rattling off the names of the parts when you were outside was brilliant. He obviously has an intimate working knowledge of the StuG. That visit must have been amazing, just being surrounded by all those parts. And having Dimitri there to drain his knowledge. Cannot wait to see the StuG restoration. By the way I really love Workshop Wednesday, but that dreaded music arrives too quickly. Cheers

@peterlinau1034 2 ай бұрын

Die puma Optik ist faszinierend.

@GilbertdeClare0704 2 ай бұрын

I believe that box at @2:40 is a box of "Schneegreifer" which were keyed to fit into those vertical slots at the edges on each side of every track link in icy or heavy snow conditions ? I think the hole in each tooth/greifer was for a split pin to secure them in place. @9:58 you can see these vertical slots on each link, just behind the link pins

@tonyromano6220 2 ай бұрын

Nice! Now I want a Dragon level kit with interior!

@peterkurg8169 2 ай бұрын

Awesome! Incredible work. It would be great to see Dimitri come out to Australia. Congratulations to everyone involved. "No, it's not hard, it's impossible!"

@scottburton509 2 ай бұрын

Especially to take a ride in it once it's assembled!