New COMMAND variant Stuart Light Tank

Have you got a Crusader in the collection? my fav tank

Ron, you're THE MAN!

Never even saw a picture of a command Stuart...you learn something new everyday

Brilliant effort....and what a modest guy Ron is....he's done a fantastic job.

Major General James Ewell Brown Stuart would approve. Well done, Ron‼️🫡

Ron beautiful work thanks so much !!! Cheers

Another beauty reborn on Ron's farm. He does do a lovely job and certainly knows his stuff.

Bloody awesome!!

Well done SIR
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Since the tank is so polished, a trick to getting cans to have less dents is to make a spout adapter and fill them up with water using a pressure regulator. You don't want much, because you'll burst them, but you want enough to give it "an idea". Once it starts to get said idea of getting outwards, you start hitting the can with a dent remover and a plastic hammer. Gently tapping the dents using the pressure of the water inside as an "anvil". Takes a bit of practice, but it's really effective. I've managed to spiffy up quite a few cans over the years with method. I'm using a common, household pressure regulator for irrigation management. Literally taken off the shelf item. The dent removal tools are also common no paint damage removal tools. Where graphics are concerned, and paint chips might occur, it's a good idea to use a very thin, very long needle to insert super thin CA glue (model making one) under the chips.

Wow, never heard of this variant. Cool.

Merci 👍

Oooh! BABY! Ain't she purdy!

fine specimen of a restored tank!

Tanks alot!

Ron is a great craftsman, a wealth of knowledge, and a generous man. Very well done!

Awesome and unique vehicle, looks and sounds fantastic. Great job Ron. Thanks for sharing it with us 👍🏻🇦🇺

Beautiful job on this!

There was colour photos before and during WW2 but were very common and expensive so was only used on special occasions. However towards the end of WW2 the US airforce (I think) started using colour film on their aircraft's gun cameras which helped drop the price, availability but still took 15-20 years for black and white to become uncommon around mid-1960s. Often depended on how much of a penny pincher someone was with their photos as old film and negative stocks started to slowly get used up and dropping the price to get rid of it. Very cool variant of the stuart tank that Ron got working.

I want one.

a Stuart "Roadster"... well, this just got very interesting.

Ron is the lad

Awesome

Outstanding

Those tail lights look perfect for a blue dot conversion...remind me of old ford lights.

Amazing, says the Corgi pup.

Ron, you're a bloody marvel mate! A brilliant job, I just love the siren!

Wow a command looking vehicle used by the Desert Rats and in perfect condition now👌👍well done Ron.

Awesome video, nicely done. I am asking this here because online searches are really useless. I have always wanted to restore an apc or some sort of tracked surplus vehicle. The issue is, all I can ever find are fully restored (and very expensive) vehicles. Where could I find just a chassis or non running vehicle to start on?

The tribal knowledge and dedication is outstanding!

Great job!

In October '24, I had the distinct pleasure to visit the museum while traveling thru and around Australia. I am a former U. S. Army AVLB (Armored Vehicle Launched Bridge)/Tanker/Combat Engineer, from Alabama, USA. I had a ball just walking around the vehicle displays, many of which we only read about in historical books and videos. I also saw some of the vehicles I was a crewman on during my time in service. Due to the weekend visit, I was not able to see the restoration/maintenance facility that would have made my visit complete. I've viewed almost all of the videos produced by Kurt and some 2 times. Maybe next time come to Cairns, I can visit again. I was glad to meet a couple of the personnel (Jason) at the entrance to the museum and was enthralled with the quality of the vehicles and the overall layout. I heartily recommend historical military vehicle buffs to make a visit there. You'll no regret it. P.S. Ron you rock Stuarts...Regards, Bert

What a great piece of kit!

We have one of these very rare Stuart -chassis kangaroos here in Arizona, at the Tucson Military Vehicle Museum. Our is based on the M5 Stuart, or Stuart IV.

Beautiful beautiful Cauter scheme.
Command and/or recon Stuart.
I imagine they would have put the 30cals on the top, as the USA was shipping each tank over with 3 of the things(hull, coaxle and AA mount). So they would have had plenty of spares.

A Commamd Stuart of 5th RTR. Nice!

It's a treat to listen to Ron share his vast knowledge of these machines.

very cool over here in Oregon ive seen stuarts and shermans used for tower logging . my grandpas friend even used a halftrack for logging Love ron's work

"its got a bloody great V8 in it"
thats the most Australian thing a man can say.

Absolutely cracking video! BIG thanks to Ronnie for sharing his wonderful big boy "toys" with us 😂, great job Kurt, keep em coming !!!

As a term of affection "Honey"was American ,"Sweetie" might have been its Australian and British equivalent .

What happened to the stug III??

Turretless, the M3 becomes a beefed up universal carrier 😊

Very nice job, thanks.👍

Great job he's done. Wouldn't it be great it a source of the OEM radial engines could be found.

Travelling from the UK the week after next just to see this museum.. my friends think I’m mad 😂

What an enormous amount of time and effort this restoration must have taken. Amazing looking. Thank you for sharing.

Nice job Ron.