That’s right! We’re here! And I am eager to show you folks what we’ve been up to for the last few months of radio silence, school, work, and general life and goodness. The irregularities in life often get in the way, and we’ve had to work around a lot of things to carry on the last year. Even with those hurdles, however, a lot of work has been done improving the vehicle and setting ourselves up for success!

There she be, as it stands, through multiple iterations, additions, software challenges and even design suite changes. As we’ve fine tuned our capability to engineer this darling tank, we’ve run into multiple road blocks and each time we figure out a way through it’s pretty exciting. From frustrations with limited computing power, too many parts in an assembly (the build above is over 500 parts!), not enough information or too many different variations in information, sorting it all out has been part of the appeal of this adventure. As we get better at delving into the project, the project gets better at giving us new problems to face.

But throughout the project, we’ve so far been able to press onwards sometimes through new information and sometimes through invention of our own. The Engineers have become much more skillful at their art, amazing me every time a new image comes across my desk.

Of course, while Beckett is in Poland, his capability to do engineering has been crippled. His poor laptop can barely deal with the large assemblies that he’s created, but he continues to work on what he can. He is also scheduled to go look at an Lt.vz.38 in Slovakia later in October, and we’re excited to have the pictures and data come in from that. Hopefully it’ll answer some of the questions we have about the gun itself, and will give us at least a starting point. Interestingly, we did get a series of photos from a contact of the very same tank back in 2017, it will be neat to revisit it, this time with measuring tools.

There are a few differences between the Pz38(t) and the Czech original, of course, but we have mostly accounted for those. Expect some photos and an update late October early November of that trip.

Most of the work in the recent months has been figuring out the details of the chassis system, including what bearings, materials and where to source them for the actual build. From the drawings and detailed section drawings and manuals we’ve sourced over the months, we have a pretty good idea of how these contraptions work, but we still have to essentially design them entirely ourselves due to the lack of proper schematics. It’s slow going, and we’re a team of a very few. Often times the drawings we have are not detailed enough to get proper instructions for the manufacture and building of the piece, so we’ve done our best to combine the theoretical knowledge of how such a piece should work, with the real drawings we have to create a working model.

But what progress we’ve made! I look forward to keeping you updated with our work!

As always, a gracious thank you to those who follow along and support the effort, it’s truly amazing to be part of something that so many have touched and helped put together.

See you next time.



-T.ankmann