BOUMA WOODWORKS

10/07/2026

The M113 T-LAV (Tracked Light Armoured Vehicle) is the Canadian Army's upgraded family of M113 armoured personnel carriers, rebuilt from the earlier M113A2 fleet between 2004 and 2009. The program produced roughly 341 vehicles in infantry section carrier, command-post (M577A3), ambulance, titter, and recovery variants, some stretched as Mobile Tactical Vehicles with an extra pair of road wheels. Powered by a tunable 400 hp diesel (governed to about 350 hp), it reaches about 66 km/h and uses Canadian-made Soucy rubber band tracks that improved cross-country mobility and reduced noise and vibration compared with steel tracks. Add-on armour, including bar armour fitted for Afghanistan, and a remote or hatch-mounted weapon station typically armed with a 7.62 mm C6 or .50-calibre machine gun give the crew better protection and the ability to fire under armour. The type saw extensive service with Canadian forces in Afghanistan as an infantry support, convoy es**rt, and base-security vehicle, and it remains in Canadian service for tracked support roles.

09/27/2026

Canadian Armoured AUTOCAR 1914. #1914

09/17/2026

Bren Gun Carrier MKII

09/15/2026

C1 105mm Howitzer Model. (video by Grok AI

09/14/2026

The M1129A1 Stryker Mortar Carrier is an 8×8 wheeled armored vehicle of the U.S. Army Stryker family, designed to give infantry units mobile, high-angle indirect fire. Built on the Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicle chassis (itself derived from the MOWAG Piranha III), it mounts a 120 mm RMS6-L recoiling mortar that can be fired from inside the hull through roof hatches, plus a 7.62 mm M240 machine gun for close defense.

09/10/2026

This is the Apollo Moon Lander built from Scratch. Wood. The Apollo Lunar Module (LM), often called the Apollo lander, was the two-stage spacecraft that carried astronauts from lunar orbit to the Moon’s surface and back. Built by Grumman, it had no streamlining or heat shield because it only flew in vacuum: the gold-foil descent stage used a throttleable engine for the landing, while the boxy ascent stage later launched from the lunar surface to rendezvous with the Command Module. Six crews landed in LMs between 1969 and 1972; the first was Apollo 11’s Eagle, which touched down in the Sea of Tranquility on 20 July 1969 with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. After each mission the descent stage was left behind as a permanent monument on the Moon.

09/10/2026

Scratch built Mark I Male. The Mark I Male was the world’s first tank to see combat, a British rhomboid-shaped “landship” introduced at Flers-Courcelette on the Somme on 15 September 1916. Built to crush barbed wire and cross trenches, it carried a crew of eight inside a hot, noisy, fume-filled hull. The Male variant mounted a 6-pounder (57 mm) gun in each side sponson plus Hotchkiss machine guns, unlike the all-machine-gun Female. About 75 Males were among the 150 Mark Is produced; they were slow (under 4 mph), mechanically unreliable, and originally fitted with steering tail wheels that were soon discarded. Despite their flaws they proved the concept of armoured tracked warfare.

09/05/2026

09/02/2026