WORKSHOP CHRISTMAS - Your questions answered!

[@c1ph3rpunk]

Well that was unexpected, and really well done. Enjoy the holidays, can’t wait to see what’s coming next. I gotta buy some merch from you all.

[@parker1ray]

You guys are performing an invaluable service in keeping these priceless gems in working order and allowing future generations to get a glimpse into this part of history!

[@radaraacf]

You can see the pain and PTSD trauma on the boilermaker when he said his last previous job was Cole’s, I can feel that since I make that face every time the mrs says we’re going there too!

[@CGM_68]

How about a Long Range Desert Group 1942 Canadian Chevy, right hand drive truck/lorry, in WWII Desert Pink. Or my favourite an SAS 1968 Land-rover in Pink Panther mode for the Oman desert?

[@johnrstubbs]

Really enjoy your videos. Whoever is you benefactor should be congratulated for the amount of money invested in saving the history of these amazing machines. I know the door takings will never cover costs so someone is contributing a lot. Well done.

[@-payday115-5]

Merry Christmas to you all who work in the field and in the background of the videos. 🎁🎄

[@jayjayspoon8824]

You know some people believe The Sentinel never could fit the 17 pounder gun

[@IntrospectorGeneral]

Only men of little faith!

[@sigmatus303]

We proved it could then the poms stole ot for the firefly ;) lol

[@Rusty_Gold85]

Non believers on other Museum sites didnt believe it was a an Aussie idea copied by the Sherman Engineer

[@sigmatus303]

@Rusty_Gold85 really wish we got the AC IV

[@rileyernst9086]

Well that was the conventional wisdom, until someone tried it. And it was conventional wisdom that you couldn't put a 17pdr in a sherman, until the Australians sent their project notes to England and someone tried it. The main problem about conventional wisdom is its sometimes just a load of bollocks.

[@iananderson5166]

Well done to everyone involved. As a restorer of a 1916 FWD 3ton truck I have some appreciation of the problems that you have. Due to moving house I had to pass the FWD on to a Museum that existed for a while at Jerramungup in WA. When that museum closed the vehicle went to Cowra in NSW. That has now closed and I have no idea where the FWD is now. I would like to contact the new owners and pass on items relevant to the restoration. I have noticed in the background of several of your videos that there are vehicles other than tanks in the collection. Could we have a video featuring these?

[@ray.shoesmith]

Can you say who had it in Cowra?

[@iananderson5166]

There used to be a military museum in Cowra. I can not remember when it was closed but at least two years ago.@@ray.shoesmith

[@ray.shoesmith]

@@iananderson5166 Yeah mate I was born there, one side of the family is spread from Crookwell to Cowra still. Just thought I may be able to help if you had an individual point of contact

[@iananderson5166]

Thanks for the thought.My attempts to trace through various historical vehicle clubs have had a stony reception. @@ray.shoesmith

[@stevecam724]

The museum was definitely one of the big highlights of our 17,000km trip around the east coast, highly recommend to anyone WITHOUT DEFINING GENDER!!! The Canberra War Memorial was a lowlight, the main memorial was barricaded off and the museum was restricted. It was nothing like it's wonderful self back in the mid 70s.

[@HomeMadeBow]

The replacement has got to be a GOLD tooth.

[@rastarn]

Cheers for a great year of content, and that's coming from a plane nerd! You've got me totally addicted to Workshop Wednesday, and I applaud the magnificent work the whole team does, in both preserving valuable history for those that come after us to learn from and marvel at, and for making so much readily accessible to us via KZbin. Great channel! Bravo!

[@conorduggan6682]

I'm not surprised by the lad's background trades given their tool use. They certainly can achieve a lot with the calculated use of a blowtorch and a hammer. I hope you all have a great Christmas down under.

[@MrPlankinton]

14:08 Show the fellows running a carpet sweeper, washing parts and shop towels, and baking something.

[@BF5player]

Thanks for being the best tank museum in the world, your transparency in the work you do allows anyone to learn of the work of wartime engineering and the dedication in the team’s efforts to construct,preserve and display exhibits is mind blowing you must be very proud.

[@vinnywelsh]

Enjoy the break guys! You deserve it.

[@lostonwallace1396]

I've never posted anything on your videos before, but I wanted to say that I've really enjoyed all of your videos, Kurt, and I love the gang that works on the tanks and armor at the shop! It's a lot of fun to see a tank project come together, or to see the metal being repaired, etc. Merry Christmas to you all, and to the Land Down Under!

[@bobhuffman6710]

When the question about making the museum more interesting for the ladies came up, I nearly spewed my coffee when Kurt, Instinctually, went for the "Hair Sweep." Many thanks to one and all at Australian Armor for all their efforts to keep this part of our world history alive for all those who follow.

[@smokejaguarsix7757]

First of all, Merry Christmas to our Aussie cousins from America! I'm a retired Army officer who served in an M1A1 Abrams Battalion. I just wanted to thank you for the work you are doing restoring and caring for these very special machines. So much of the history of armored conflict is being destroyed, hidden, rewritten or erased by the leftist woke cult and authoritarian governments bent on forgetting history so people have nothing to compare their actions to in modern times. What you are doing is far more important then you may realize. These machines are proof of what happens when authoritarianism, propaganda, segregation and tribalistic division is allowed to fester and become a cancer to the world. These machines prove these events happened and display the lengths some governmenta and people will go to achieve control and domination over those they disagree with. You saw some of that in your own country during covid with the covid camps and illegal "temporary" cessation of civil rights. Freedom is the right of all people in a civilized society. These historical artifacts help people understand the terror, brutality and tragedy of war so that we together can work harder to avoid it. Ive seen a lot of war as an officer and soldier. In my experience the politicians who seek war the most are the ones who know nothing about it. Everyone should be encouraged to visit your museum and tank fest, especially school children so they do not grow up seeking war except as the means of preventing or ending a threat posed by an aggressor. Thanks again and Merry Christmas! 🌲🤙🥃 -note, I pray you are able to get your gun rights restored. Governments throughout history have always become a threat yo their own people or committed a genocide when they take away the weapons of their own people. It is as inevitable as the sun rising tomorrow.

[@johnnewman366]

Mate, you clearly have no idea regarding gun laws here in Australia. Guns are not banned, have never been banned, last I read there are now approx 4million registered guns in Australia. Anyone can apply for a gun licence (except convicted criminals or those with a history of mental illness). You have to have a valid reason for owning a gun, such as a sport shooter, target shooting, hunting, farmer, pest controller, etc. Self defence is not a valid reason, last thing we want is for the average person in the suburbs stockpiling guns at home and being a potential danger to the community. Last thing we want is to be the US where there are more guns than people and there are mass shootings every day. No thanks (and yes I was a gun owner, and happy for people with valid reasons to have one!). en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_of_Australia Cheers,

[@smokejaguarsix7757]

@@johnnewman366 and of course the government decides your "valid reason". Yeah, we call that Tyranny here. Also, stop believing the media. There are not mass shootings here every day or even every week or every month either. Youre clearly a leftie. Btw, I just did a search on Australian shootings...you have them all the time. The only difference is in Australia nobody is allowed to defend themselves (which is utterly evil) and he we have rights. Freedom is scary. Deal with it.

[@highlander147]

Bonus Christmas Day video - merry Christmas to y’all and thanks for all the hard work and skill you put in.

[@willmartin7293]

Thanks for answering a lot of my questions with this video. It was very interesting to hear so many things explained that I've been curious about since subscribing to your channel. 👍😊

[@thurin84]

kudos to you all for all you do to keep these pieces of history alive! merry christmas and enjoy your well earned vacations lads!!!!

[@matthiaslipp2742]

Eine Frohe Weihnacht aus Deutschland! Merry Christmas from Germany

[@MrDyhard]

In about 1974 I went to an outdoor armour museum just West of Oakey in Queensland. I clearly remember climbing over a gutted hull and turret - no gun. I was told at the time it was a Tiger II - King Tiger. That museum closed many years ago.

[@mickypd1]

That museum was just before Brookvale Park near Jondaryan and was run by an auto electrian called John Bourke from Oakey. We had a cadet camp there in 1977 ( Toowoomba State High School cadet unit ) and it was closed in the early eighties after his marriage failed and divorce gutted the collection. That Tiger tank was probably the Matilda tank that had no interior fittings except fot the drivers seat and nothing else.

[@knudvoecking]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you! You are a fascinating crew of experts and I enjoy every second of your videos. Greetings from Germany!

[@LeveretteJamesClifford1955]

Unless I have messed up mind, you guys helped me with measurements for the Crocodile trailer, I hoped I thanked you when you did it because my wife was diagnosed with bone cancer at about the same time. She passed 5 years ago this coming April, so it was a long time ago. I'm really interested in the Churchill series, to me they are the hidden gems of the Tank world and I think the MK IV, is the most rare. While most people think the Mk VII was the last of the series before the Black Prince. but there is a MK VIII was the last, and it was identical to the VII with the exception of there being a 95mm main gun and a few little improvements which do not alter the appearance. Considering the many varieties and the specialist versions like the multi purpose bridge layers, The Crocodile, the MK IV that had the Sherman 75s adapted to fit in Italy which was very surprising in that the MK VI received a more powerful 75 with a more effective mantlet outside the turret, AND the Churchill was a better, more stable gun platform for the 75 which let that gun live up to its full potential. The books Ive purchased what makes the Churchill work are good but as far as illustrations go, mixed up, because I have not seen one where the illustrations and photos are in a chronological order, as in drawings and photos for the driving compartment from a VII Crocodile in a sections of text for the MK III, so my ongoing process to build a complete MK III inside and out have had a lot of revisions and guesswork, and tearing apart and starting over from some point. But it's been interesting and fun and I am not complaining! Keep up the good work, thanks again for the help and photos for the trailer, and you guys are doing a wonderful job in preparing worn out sometimes wrecks to almost new condition so that people long after my time on earth is gone can see and touch what it took for the Allied Nations to stop and destroy the NAZIs with all their very powerful weapons. Freedom is never free, someone is always trying to destroy our freedom so that they can rule over the world.

[@nevillegoddard4966]

Interesting bits of info to learn about you guys & what youse are doing, & planning for! Keep up the GREAT, FASCINATING work fella! I'm a fan forever! 👍😃👍

[@rickdarris6152]

Boilermakers Local #7 here. Man, you're livin my dream.

[@motoclonkdribblehead5423]

You keep doing what your doing and I will keep watching. If I lived in Australia, being a trained mechanical engineer I would be there helping. I love this stuff it's in the blood. Cheers from Leeds, England. Have a great Christmas and and fantastic new year.

[@martinbather4835]

Bloody brilliant lads.....made me smile.....good stuff... Happy Xmas and New Year.🎉🎉

[@joepapp01]

Great video. Happy Christmas to you all. This is such a pure and wholesome channel, and one of my favorites.

[@glengrant3884]

GREAT WORK GUYS!!💥💪👊KEEP UP THE GOOD VIBES!!💥👍

[@gregedmand9939]

My late uncle was a one-man restorer of vintage vehicles. He began with a Greyhound bus from the early 1930's, that's now in an Ontario museum . He moved onto various Canadian Army trucks from WW2. He was a Navy photographer in the war that served in the Med and went ashore in Normandy. He would have loved this channel!

[@CaptainCamperLP-CCLP]

Tiger B sounds like the ultimate goal, but making the Tiger E a runner would me christmas, easter and birthday together.

[@tdb7992]

Merry Christmas guys! Glad you got through the flooding up there. G’day from Western Australia!

[@hansmuller9121]

Hello and Merry Christmas to all of you in warm Australia. This was a very interesting video, especially the question about women. I wouldn't be able to get my wife out of your halls, especially if she got the chance to drive a tank again. She has already driven a T 58 and a BMP, but now a Leo is missing. Keep it up, it's always interesting what you get to drive again. Greetings from Berlin

[@54mgtf22]

Love your work Merry Christmas 🎄

[@drizski]

Merry Christmas to the wonderful crew and thank you so much for the entertainment you provide and also I’m grateful for the restoration to younger generations. Will have a chance to see these things.

[@jcbfeather]

lol love the dump and run idea

[@janrasmussen171]

You guys do a fantastic job, I love to watch

[@TrainmanDan]

Merry Christmas to all down under, from the Great White North!

[@CigarAttache]

I stumbled upon your museum back in 2019 when I was in Cairns and I was blown away. It's impressive the amount of new exhibits you've added in just a few short years. Cheers from Mexico.

[@tdb7992]

I hope you enjoyed your time here in Australia. A Mexican in Cairns, you would’ve been very exotic to the locals! 😂

[@paulvenn4447]

Thank God you guys got through it ok! Looking forward to seeing you all in Jan!

[@MWL4466]

I love your channel ! You all do such a great job on every project. A visit to Australia and the museum is on my bucket list for sure. MERRY CHRISTMAS from Canada 🍻

[@welshpete12]

From a wet and windy Wales UK . A merry |Christmas and a happy new year !

[@Reezour_Waargh]

Guys, its fantastic hard work to restore that pieces of crap to original view of tank and even to run condition! Wish you good health and happy new year! From Russia with love🙋

[@dickdegraaff5452]

Hi Guys, It’s for us in the Netherlands very very interesting that your museum is collecting WW2 tanks what never have been in your country or even in the most parts of Asia. You’ve a huge collection of German WW2 vehicles and these are very accurate restored also the majority is running. I’ve seen how a hopeless piece of rusty metal is recovered by your staff in an original condition what first of deserves an enormous respect for the craftsmanship of your staff. Your country is attacked by the Japanese in WW2 so hopefully you also will collecting Japanese army vehicles out of that time since to my opinion these are of a more historical value for your country than German vehicles out of that period. Never the less I wish you guys a blessed Christmas and Good Health and Good Times in the coming New Year! Thank you, , and all your Commenters for the many hours of enjoyable watching, learning, reading and humor you've spread Worldwide the last year. Plus we send you love from the Netherlands

[@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188]

The Swedes got a King Tiger donated after the war - but mostly cut it up, so only a few sad part are left in their Tank Museum (For now they have borrowed one from the Museum at Bowington)!!! !!! When walking Long Distance in Belgium I wasn't aware of the King Tiger in La Gleize, which is still outside their small Museum, in the town, running out of fuel during the Offensive and being sold by its crew to a Belgian Lady!

[@giuseppemassarelli2970]

Marry Christmas and happy New Year 🎄🍾🥂

[@philhitchings]

Thank you for all the work that you do. Keeping history alive like this is invaluable and for someone on the opposite side of the world, your video archive is a fantastic source of information for a model builder like me

[@WayneThomas-d7m]

🎄🎄 Merry Christmas to you all. Incredible work and awesome to watch. Thank you and Best for 2024 🎄👍👍

[@russcole5685]

Happy holidays from New Zealand guys

[@richardw.foxhall3392]

Kurt, between the genuine interest during filming and the ahh, shucks fellows when you say or do the correct thing while filming... to the capper of "Do we sell mech at Aus Armor... Why Yes we do" in a pure hucksters voice caused me to Laugh Out Loud. Wish all you Kiwis a Merry Christmas and a happy productive new year from a bloke who found you fellows Quite By Accident and very glad the signal reaches all the way to the middle of the States.

[@agn855]

Merry Tank-Mas from the Tigers Vaterland. Question: are you in contact with the German Tank Museum (DPM) in Munster (that is owned by the German Bundeswehr, so being quite close to Leopard manufacturer(s) just in case it needs Leopard parts)?

[@PanzerHistorian]

FIRST COMMENT, But seriously, Congratulation’s towards all the people who restored and preserved all the Vehicles in the museum. Happy New year from Puerto Rico 😅👍

[@chopper7352]

Great work by all at the "Oz Armour" team. A nice Q&A video & way to round out the year 2023. Have a safe & merry New Year. See you all in 2024. Cheers

[@RossJochheim]

Thank you for answering my trade history questions…!!! What a bunch of champions

[@AW-Services]

Happy new year and enjoy your summer. Our British tanks didn't even get a mention 🇬🇧

[@danielcotnoir3363]

Merry Christmas mates! Have a safe and Happy New Year! Cheers!

[@AlisonFort]

You want to offer the ladies more! All the very best for the New Year guys…

[@langer4602]

Absolute legends! You fellas make me proud to be an Aussie

[@garybythesea]

Was there in xmas. When no flood. Amazing place.

[@JackFlemingFan1]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all who work at The Australian Armour & Artillery Museum as well as all who watch your channel too! Thank you too for posting all your videos!

[@mikeT4099]

Thanks!

[@roadweary5252]

Thank you for another year of great videos, gang! Happy holidays 🎉

[@anguscreighton4040]

A great video to end the year. Thank you for the fascinating content and looking forward to watching your projects develop next year. Have a great holiday and a few beers. Have an awesome 2024

[@NSYresearch]

Thanks to everyone at Aus Armour ...from the cleaning ladies to the Boss Man without you all the Museum wouldn't be possible.

[@mullligan6491]

Enjoy your break fellas and thanks for the update on the M4A1 Sherman I asked about. Brilliant.

[@michaelwilson9483]

Great video! I'd love to see more like this! Really looking forward to the upcoming builds as well!

[@jacks5598]

Wesołych Świąt, macie wspaniałych fachowców, cudowne muzeum ale jakie plany na rok 2024?

[@safetyharborfirearms]

Great to have alot of the questions answered. The Ukraine situation will effect collecting/restorations sadly for years to come with all the mines that have been deployed.

[@Dennys854]

Might add, how to make more interesting for the ladies... add vignette displays of tanker camp/field life. Great interviews, can't wait for more in the pipeline!

[@travisturbeville1341]

Great video enjoyed the candid side of things with the guys. Look forward to more great content in 2024.

[@markbehr88]

Great video. I love what you are all doing there.

[@kineticdeath]

ZSU-23-4! Ever since i found this channel a few weeks ago I've been looking on google maps at the drive up. Its a big one but maybe some day I'll do it. Maybe a ZSU-23-4 will be part of the collection

[@petesheppard1709]

Merry Christmas from Alabama, USA! This year, it's warm and rainy, so I can relate to you Ozzies.😜 Thanks for a very informative video. You have gotten much better in your presentation as well! 👍 When I finally make it Down Under, you will be high on my Must Visit list.😎

[@travisturbeville1341]

Huntsville has a great tank museum if you’re ever in the area.

[@petesheppard1709]

@@travisturbeville1341Thanks! Merry Christmas!!

[@Trucksofwar]

Merry Christmas from my swag on the back of my Blitz!

[@steveyountz1757]

Time for a blooper reel !!!!!!!!!😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

[@MorrisonLee-wt2jp]

This is the BEST episode. We get to know what a friendly bunch you guys are ... and funny too. Also, I didn't know you had merch. Some of it looks great. Could you do a little spot to show us what you have? Thanks. Brisbane

[@patchmack4469]

one of the coolest museums on the planet, its on my bucket list but to be honest a little out my way, and i do get a good fix here on you tube, and really if i did come out, i'd never leave

[@markmeredith158]

After visiting TAAAM in early July (or late June) in 2023 and following one of your tanks down the hill into Cairns, I have watched nearly all of your videos, and I this was one of my favourites. Uniform. Whenever the owner was mentioned, there seemed to be a lot of clouds put up. So, who is the owner and more importantly where does there interest in Military Vehicles come from.

[@Phatzo1000]

I think a cocktail bar is a fantastic idea

[@farangkinok]

Great episode, always good to see behind the scenes !

[@skunkworks2059]

Merry Christmas to all of you, and Kurt you need more sun. You’re so white I needed sunglasses to watch. Lol

[@matthewrinehart2367]

Thanks. A nice little fix to get through to January.

[@justinove7521]

Merry Christmas, guys! I do hope you'll reach out to that bloke in Poland when you start working on the Ha-Go.

[@michaelbihr7814]

Ihr seid echt der Hammer!!!! Topitop 👍👍👍

[@21babydew]

cat 3408 would give ya enough power to get the tiger 1 moving little short on horse power but more then enough torque and relieable and parts are easy to get. sounds good too.

[@grandpaweber2097]

Merry Christmas, Guys! I've become quite the fan of this site this year. Now...shirts? Oooh.

[@_--JohnVK--_]

Enjoy your Holidays, guys. Well deserved!! Wishing you all, and the subscribers/viewers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

[@guywerry6614]

Oy! Christmas weather a bit different than here in Canada (although we have almost no snow this year which is very unusual).

[@markstone5597]

Spot-On...answered some of my questions-great shop-awsome job, and super facility....gonna have to go there and see the Museum someday. ..the gang there cracks me up in your vidios.

[@schwabrichard9829]

Merry Christmas from Virginia! A great segment with tank backgrounds!

[@pete_stevens]

I'm not a military nerd by nature but enjoy watching KZbin presentations on renovating ex-military equipment. You all do a fantastic job on restoration and on that note, I wish you all a Merry Christmas for 2023.

[@rileyernst9086]

I'd really like to see a later model valentine. They are largely associated with the North Africa campaign but they were extensively employment by the Red army as a cavalry tank(6pdr armed mk IXs)until the very end of the war, and in the British army valentines armed with 75mm guns (mk Xs I believe)were still used as command vehicles in Archer batteries until the end of the war in Europe. When Soviet cavalry units poured into Manchuria and northern Korea it was the valentine that lead the spearhead against the majority of the Japanese army's tank strength.

[@danmadden1080]

Merry Christmas from NZ.

[@Apowers43]

As I live 30mins away from Bovington UK, My lady likes to read the stories of the people from WWII. If that helps you guys. For me I can watch someone welding for 45mins. 😁. But I'm really an engine guy.

[@johnnewman366]

Glad you guys survived the flooding ok, look forward to more Workshop Wednesday in early 2024!

[@KubotaManDan]

🎄 Merry Christmas ❄ Seasons Greetings ☃ Happy New Year 🥂 Peace and Love

[@bazwabat1]

Merry Christmas and hope to hop over the ditch soon for an actual visit. 🙂

[@adcaptandumvulgus4252]

The ladies are going to flock there LOL