Most Recent Updates

This is a log of changes and updates to the web site listed in descending order from newest to oldest. This site is very much a Work in Progress and my work on it is ever on-going though updates may be slow.

If you are looking for what's new, you've come to the right place! Links are provided to updated material when applicable, and postings are organized by date. Check back often, you never know when I'll add something new!

Updates to the Updates

The Updates pages have now been completely reformatted to allow responsive layouts that will hopefully improve usability across the near-infinite accursed platforms via which folks view web pages these days.

Henceforth, all of the updates will use this new Fugly-yet-Functional format (FyF) format, subject to user comment and updation (a real word, I swear!) by myself.


Updates 2026

04/01/2026 - Despite appearances, there's been a lot going on, plus other site news (No April Fool's. I promise.)

The Nightmare Before Xmas

Where to start... Well, after some time and better judgement, I decided to spare everyone the TLDR essay I was going to post here about my horrible 2025 holiday season. I firmly believe that few folks come here to read about my personal life and its misfortunes. So I retracted my wordy essay on the matter and condensed it thusly:

My father had a heart attack on Christmas Eve. He had cardiac bypass surgery and is recovering well. It made for a truly crappy Christmas, New Year's, and the last couple months.

There, that's out of the way.

Updates to, well, the Updates section

To make things a lot more web-friendly, I have started to update parts of the site, beginning with the Updates section. The changes affect the look and function in varying degrees, but the main aim was to make viewing of pages more friendly to browsers and in particular, mobile devices such as tablets and phones. I ask readers for any feedback in regards to how the site is laid out, or displays in any ways that are NOT user-friendly. Could be something not displaying well, or properly, or it could be a lousy choice of font or font colors on my part. I will certainly consider what anyone has to say and try to make improvments within reason, and where possible.

The changes are only in the current updates (this page you're viewing now) and did not affect the older update pages. This will be the format going forward for now until more drastic changes arrive later. The pagination (the direct selection of a specific year's updates) has been updated slightly as well. Likely, no one will notice unless I screwed something up somewhere.

The site URL will soon change

The long-outdated address the site has used since it began: www.chromehooves.net, will soon be replaced by a far more meaningful and sensible address:

www.titan1history.net

No worries! Nothing has changed yet. There is nothing at the new address at this time.

The old address will still work and will re-direct to the new address. You won't have to change any links or refs any time soon, so you need not make any changes to find the site. However, I strongly encourage anyone linking to my site to update the address, and everyone should be using the new one for future visits once it has been changed. For now, nothing needs to be done at all, but eventually, the old address will be retired, though for a while it will re-direct to the new address.

Consequently, the contact email for the site will also change at a later date and the new email will be noted here and updated within the web site.

Blueprints for the Ellsworth 850th SMS are now available

Finally, after a lot of legwork, more Titan I blueprints are available. Not a whole hell of a lot of them granted, but there will be a lot more ready to go online soon. This is the first, smaller, installment. Larger updates will swiftly follow, but I have to say, the Ellsworth set of blueprints, from my perspective is terribly incomplete with an estimated 50 to 60 percent of the drawings unaccounted for. There is currently no index to say explicitly how many drawings are missing so it's a shame, but I will provide all that I have so far.

The first of the Ellsworth blueprints can be seen here: Ellsworth 850th SMS Blueprints.

As ever, if anyone has blueprints, or access to them, I ask that you please contact me and perhaps we can find a way to get them scanned and included in the set. There are thousands of pages still missing, but maybe with some luck, someone out there knows where some of them can be found!

There are 6 more categories to be added, amounting to over 200 additional blueprints in the Ellsworth set that will be released as I get them completed for posting. Stay tuned!

I'm working to revamp the entire web site

I've been working to clean up the place and get it working and LOOKING better for over a decade. There's a good chance that we'll see that happen sometime this year. (No promises) When/if it happens, it will likely be a piecemeal transition where one area gets a completely new look, while others stay the same until I get to them, and eventually everything is updated. We'll see...

Some things may become unavailable for a short period, but rest assured, everything will be back up and available once the dust has settled.