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...
Hello, I am looking for plans and dimensions for the 37mm M1916 Infantry Gun developed at the Puteaux Armory in France and adopted by the US Army.? Here's what I've pieced together of the history so far:? France's Puteaux Arsenal created the "Canon d'Infanterie de 37 modele 1916 TRP" by es...
?Hi Guy, ?I am 1/35 scale modeller and I am looking for any information about dimensions of chassis Jeffery (Nash) Quad 4017 car, for example: length ?and width ?of frame, wheel base, wheel diameter, etc. ?I am going to build Jeffery-Poplavko armor car in 1/35 scale. ?? ?Thanks for any information. ?...
