War at Home - part of the BBC's WW1 centenary event, has kicked off with an online feature on tanks - which members of this forum kindly helped with http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25109879? Hope it is up to scratch!
Hi I was hoping someone can help me get more info,history on this. Im a gun collector and dont know much about this kind of artillery. Any info would be great so I can pass it on to the right collector. The writting?seems to be German w/mark 8.8cm GrSchrZdr. ?Thank you. Bryan
Does anyone have any information about where I can find the specs for this gun. French manufacture, St Chamond, same company that made the French WW1 tanks. Seems Norway had a few of these 210mm guns as coastal defence guns. Probably purchased after 1893 when Norway began making coastal forts. Still...
As part of my research for the Osprey book "42cm 'Big Bertha' and German Siege Artillery of World War I,"? I took quite few photos of the 42cm M-Ger?t Builders Model at Les Invalides.? Roger Todd ask if I would post them here, so here is the first group - general views of the howitzer.? Taking p...
Im the great grandson of William George Shelton DCM and have opened up a Facebook site to give interested people access to lots of photographs in my possession. I have plenty of photos to scan and post up. Feel free to ask for a friend request.
Hi, ??? Just a couple of pictures from the Prime Portal website Nuremburg ToyFair,? IBG news page ? But nothing to identify what or when ? Anyone have any info ? Paul
Miniairons is a new manufacturer from Spain who seems quite responsive as far as customers' suggestions are concerned. I would like to lobby them to produce the two standard guns in the Spanish army of 1936 (so, most common guns in the Civil War). These are a) Ca??n Schneider (75/28) Modelo 1917http:...
T-35 went for restoration. Museum in Kubinka. Wall of the hangar was dismantled that would bring the tank left the building. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owf2e7Xtx70
A recent news article in Ukraine is saying that the remains of an AV7 have been located in Ukraine. The location is said to be in what was pre war Poland. A Ukrainian businessman Mr Paul Casini is quoted to say "This is 100% the real thing" I will monitor this with interest. I have Mr Casini's co...
Not sure if this should be under tanks or artillery. An article, presumably translated from the French, has been circulated within the Gold Reef Scale Modellers' Club (Johannesburg) about the above-mentioned vehicle giving the history of the four FCM-built SPGs with 305 mm guns up to the destruct...
Hi, after some times of absence I want to show a little progress for my scratched lorry, the Thornycroft J Type. Some of you perhaps will remember, I mean this one. Well my 14 figs for the lorry are fin...
Apologies to those easily offended by non strictly WW1 stuff. It seems a couple of German AA guns of 1931 Rheinmetall design have surfaced in Afghanistan. How they got there is much debated, but I am posted the link here because the cammo pattern reminds me of the one seen on German WW1 guns: http://www...
Hi all I have an Archive of WW1 books on Scribd all of which are as far as I know out of copyright, they are all free to download. there are around 1500 books on there but there are a few duplicates, and I have another couple of hundred to upload shortly. if you find them useful? you can post a file of your own on...
Just a quick post.... on looking at some of the pics of BB on the landships site Ive come to the conclusion that the wheel boards/pads are actually a seperate endless track somewhat similar to those used on early traction engines... Any comments? Cheers
Tim's book arrived yesterday and haven't been able to put the thing down.OK trucks of this period are of great interest to me anyway. 200 pages with 396 photographs.Very high quality paper and the quality of the pictures is brilliant with very informative text. I can't think of much else to say only th...
(Apologies to non-British friends. The name Paxman will not have the same significance.) Short reference to the Tank in Jeremy's account of the War. Not very enlightened - Germans surrendering in droves, etc. A British invention, of course. Florid description. And I'll have to listen again, but I...
Acc to PSR: Art of Tactic World War I6900 - British Infantry 19166901 - German Infantry 19166902 - British 81mm Stokes Mortar with crew6903 - German 7,58cm Mortar with crew6904 - British Vickers MG with crew6905 - German MG08 with crew I thank you.
I recently picked up a Russian non-recoil artillery sight in Latvia.? The sight likely is from the 1880-1918 period.? See attachment for the marking.? I think the 3.3 is 3.3 inches or 83mm.? The problem is this does not correspond to a gun that I have notes on.? Any ideas about the markings or which arti...
? I don't think this one has been posted previously - 14 mins of narrow gauge railways: http://www.ecpad.fr/les-petits-trains-de-la-grande-guerre-2#more-12305 Regards, Charlie -- Edited by CharlieC on Tuesday 11th of February 2014 12:00:47 AM
Last year I bought (second-hand) a copy of "British and American Tanks of World War II" by Chamberlain & Ellis, Arms & Armour Press, which has some technical data for the vehicles covered and lots of photos of unusual variants. On the back of the dust jacket, this book advertised a...
