The magazine article on this is not really worth the paper it's written on; I should have stopped when I read that the builder had never built a tank before! The Landships article on converting the Mk IV into a Mk V is excellent, but not the whole story of the conversion as there are a number of differences...
A number of patents relating to Horsby Tracks the drawings include information on previous British patents including the illusive BP16345 of 1904 in the HORNSBY_TRACTION_ENGINE_TRACK.pdf overall this patent seems to show the progression of Roberts?and James track system as it goes through va...
The Renault FT kit from Revell comes with a scenic base including 3 nice French soldier figures. They are molded in the 1940 style uniforms, and some slight modifications are needed to make them look as late WW1 French "poilus". Two of the figures are in fact the exact same molding, and if se...
Found this here good copy from the State Library Victoria an excellent resource... 13 pdr QF MKI Handbook 18pdr guns? all MKs? note: only those marked Available on line can be downloaded, I find this is best done using Google Chrome. ? Best Regards -- Edited by Ironsides on Monday 9th of September 2013...
Here are a few pics of one of my current unfinished projects. This is the new-pop Revell kit of the old Matchbox Renault FT tank. I decided to spiff it up a bit, adding an open driver's hatch, and open turret doors with the commander sitting on it. I also added some details to the track mechanisms and a few a...
Hello, does anybody know when will hat realease E23 sets? The last new sets were made few months ago (it was so long that I dont rememger when in was excatly :P ). Their site also doest change.
Does anyone have first hand knowledge of this book? I'm wondering just how much info / pictorial reference it contains for the Simplex?40hp 'protected'? I like narrow gauge putt-putts right enough, but the 40hp would be the jobby? I'd want to see quite a lot of if shelling out for a book. Thanks in adva...
Hi everybody, apparently the Belgian army had two types of dog carts, one with the Maxim on it (and a ammunition cart) and the one on the pictures, with a Hotchkiss. Until now I could only find three pictures of the latter. Can anyone help me out? It's the 'wooden' type where it's all about, more pictures...
Sorry about this, but there's something I'm trying to remember and can't. The famous picture of a Holt moving along a street in Brussels; it appeared in the Daily Mail in November 1914; someone involved in the development of the Tank showed it to someone also involved. The trouble is that I can't remem...
The Schneider-Canet 75mms were only rivalled in popularity by Krupps commercial 75mm versions. The following countries used Schneider-Canet 75mms: Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania, Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina & others all prior to WWI. There are 2 principal versions of...
I know there's disagreement about just what colors were used, somewhere between green and brown.? I don't have an airbrush, and wondered what spray cans might be reasonable.? I'm in the states, so would prefer something I'm more likely to find here - i.e. not Humbrol.? However, if one or more of their...
I'm absolutely certain I read somewhere that the driver's vision slits on the M1917 were two inches higher than on the FT, because the American troops tended to be taller than the average Frenchman. Have I dreamt this? If not, can anyone remind me where I read it? Chin chin.
My model entitled 'A French Country Lane'? shows the W^D Models GS Wagon in an early war scene coming across a despatch cyclist heading the other way who has to move aside to let the loaded wagon past.? This my finished model from the 'Other Guys' theme, some build up details can be found in that thread Mi...
I'm busy doing the conversion from a Mk IV to a Mk V* (I should have stopped when I read in the magazine article that the auther had never built a tank before).? In some of the pictures, the twin-louvre cover to the LHS radiator cover has been replaced by an inverted "V" shaped piece of substant...
A colleague is researching the Great War in Perth and area (the original Perth in Scotland, not the one in WA, etc.) and in particular the tank presented in 1919. He has found a couple of photos of the tank in local papers but nothing more in the way of pictures of it?- and no postcards at all which is slight...
Was browsing online for interior photos of rhomboids in connection with a different thread, and came across a picture of a lovely clockwork tank on an auction house website. The toy was part of an old sale from 2008 (sorry to disappoint!) and is described as being made by a British company in Liverpool...
While at NARA last week, I came across and scanned these drawings of the MK VIII Liberty tank from the US Army Ordnance Files.? Some of the drawings seem to be commonly found on the Internet, but I am posting them here in case someone finds utility in them.? The images here are low resolution.? I have much...
I know that strictly speaking it isn't a first world war gun as they came just to late, but it's coming to my home town, so decided to post it here. :) Fort Nelson is already a fab museum. You get an historic fort perched on top of the hill above Portsmouth, a really interesting collection artillery, AND if...
