The Schneider CA1 didn't use the classical Holt suspension as the St-Chamond (and A7V) did. The suspension was somewhat similar to that on the later FT. Attached are a couple of images of the Schneider at Saumur showing the springs and what looks like a fairly substantial framework supporting the ca...
Hello, everbody! My name is Luger (as I'm owner of such a perfectly balanced gun) and I'm living in western Germany 50 miles as the crow flies east of the dutch border. My learned profession is gunmaker and my hobby is artillery and WW I-Tanks. Besides, I'm a lot out hunting and motorcycling. It is a pity...
From the Illustrated War News, Wednesday 19 July 1916: Propaganda? For use by impatient muleteers?? From what I can make out, the German field punishments were similar to the British, or milder perhaps.? For instance the equivalent of the notorious Field Punishment No. 1, being shackled or bound t...
I'm currently working on scale drawings for an artillery piece and have come across data for it in German. Many of the terms I can figure out using Babelfish and the context they appear in, but this one needs clarification please: Feuerh?he The direct English translation is 'fire height'. An online d...
Hi all, As it's my first post I'd like to say hello and thanks to all for a great forum to read through. I've been reading this forum for a while and now things are starting to edge towards build commencement I thought I'd register and see if anyone can help out with a few details. Im drawing up my own plans an...
Not the life-size one (which now seems to have been taken indoors) but the model shewn below. Does anyone know its provenance? Was it built by Burstyn at the time of his attempts to get the vehicle accepted, or is it a later addition? ?
Hello!I'm tryingto build a3Dmodel of the tankMk.IX.But facedwith the fact thatthe networkis availableinvery fewpictures fromsomeangles.Can notanyone helpwith the imagesback, topandinside the tank?While it turns outis such amodel.Colored lines- a reconstructionof objectsin various w...
Just got these from Robert Mathews, the MasterBox female with W^D figures and duckboards. I think he has done a brilliant job. I will be putting some more pic's on the W^D gallery.
Hi I don't suppose anybody has a sheet of the Decalcomaniacs rhomboid decals spare which they'd be interested in selling do they? I've looked on their ebay shop and they don't list them any more - I'm actually only interested in the ones for 'Perfect Lady'. andy
While perusing the work of the excellent Belgian illustrator James Thiriar I came across this sketch of troops making their way forward through characteristic Flanders weather. The object on the left looks familiar. If it is indeed the Field Kitchen donated by the citizens of Manchester, it will h...
Both military and civilian. It seems that German army and navy uniform hats were of the same basic design, of course with insignia and coloring different. ?Am I right? Also, did pretty much every European wear the same types of hats (fedoras, top hats, skimmers, "Andy Capp" hats), etc.?
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As on the GWF I can't find the old topic for this - Regarding the Beamish gun - I believe there's been some question as to the identification of the gun as it could be one of two manufacturers. I naughtily hopped over the fence this weekend - can't see muc...
Severela my (and my wife) articles on the Serbian army.http://www.academia.edu/4348269/_-_Olivera_Dumic_GUN_MAKING_IN_SERBIA_Vesnik_vojnog_muzeja_39_Beograd_2012_201_-_214
Hello, It has been some time since I worked on the Uberlandwagen.? Work and family have bitten into my modeling time. As you can see I have made the?following recent?improvements to the MGM kit.?4 "c" shaped hooks made from flattened solder and then filed/sanded to shape.? Not exactly pe...
These were just announced in Nurnberg and will be produced in April.? HOe/HOn30 scale running on N-gauge track (9 mm).? A Pechot-Bourdon "may" be produced in the future.?http://schmalspurbedarf.de/Minitrains_neu_%202014.pdf
I am trying to collect information for the next lot of figures.One set I would like to get done is the above.From what I have gathered so far by 1918 the Lewis team consisted of 8 men (!!!!) I have good pic's of the Gunner but very little on what gear the rest would be wearing carrying. Thanks in advance
From time to time we stop to examine one of the unquestioned "facts" about our favourite invention. One which is automatically included in accounts of the Tank's development is that the predecessor of Little Willie was called "No. 1 Lincoln Machine." But was it? By whom was it...
There is a gun outside the courthouse at Modesto, Calif - this was identified as an FK 96 n.A but is a 75mm Krupp export gun possibly an M1910. There are similar guns in Australia captured from the Ottoman forces in Palestine - I thought it may have been one of these which had got to the US. I obtained some sh...
I recently got the Osprey book "U-Boats: 1914-1945" and noted that it depicted German naval uniforms as nearly identical throughout the era. ?I always wanted to depict the rebelling sailors of 1918, but deemed it just a pipe dream until I saw the book-and I have Dragon 1/35 figures of Diep...
While looking at the models2u site I notice on the WW1?future releases British Infantry z6904 ??2-99 and z6900 British Vickers machine gun crew. Anybody know anything about these - are they starting a mini series on WW1? ?
