If you are tired of working on model tanks, here are some guys working on the real things! Lots of great scenes, including maintenance, welding, and painting.
Ken
Thanks for that. Really interesting. I did notice that most of the time they didnāt seem to be working particularly hard! Just the job!
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This video needs to be forwarded to the Australian Armour and Artillery Museum restoration staff so they can see how little the actual repair work has changed over the years (reconstruction, on the other hand, is hugely more important and complicated now). The brief section of the workers pulling bits out of a final drive could almost be the AusArmor staff doing the same thing on their rebuilds.
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Just have to work hard enough to stay off 
detail or being sent to the front lines.
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They might be doing that for the camera.
The guys doing the welding certainly seem to be working hard, and I love the shots of painters using the spray guns.
Ken
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That is some fabulous video. I kept being struck by what had to be done by hand, or multiple hands without mechanical help vs the devices weād use today. Turning nuts by hand with spanners and no air wrenches must have been agonizing.
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Thanks Ken thatās solid gold footage for every tank-maintenance diorama player. Great to see the trailer rear wheels thrown into full lock to get round the treeā¦
ā¦and is that a captured Gaz AA being towed behind it?
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That was a great insight into how they did certain jobs in the rear area maint sites. Loved the spray painting ā¦ no technique ā¦ everything got covered ā¦ track bashing brought back some horrible memories though ā¦
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Reminded me of the OzArmour Workshop Wednesday videos, where theyāre doing track work exactly the same way, proving that the process hasnāt changed in eighty years.
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I doubt it ever will change until they develop trackless hover tanks
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See those sound great in theory but they wonāt work. Thereās nothing to absorb the recoil. As soon as you fire the main gun, you send your hover tank flying backward across the battlefieldā¦
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Mate, Have you not seen the new rear facing recoil compensator thrusters - they are linked to the fire control system and each firing sequence to allow constant stability thrust for just that issue ā¦ 
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That depends on the armament; David Drake, in his āHammerās Slammersā series, postulated the discovery of the principle behind what became the āpowergunā, which changed the balance of shot power and recoil, allowing for fusion-powered hovertanks. But without a revolutionary discovery like that, a hovertank would have to ground to get a stable firing platform, which mostly defeats the advantages of the air cushion.
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Here is another one. Some of the footage is the same, but there is some different stuff, and some narration.
Ken
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