Hello everyone, I go by IronPeregrine in most online spaces, and have as of the last couple weeks have found this wonderful forum and am now making my first post with this one. I have been researching the tanks of WW1 to make a game to play with my friends (an online version of a tabletop game played in an Ex...
Hello! I received this nice photo of a german 21cm mortar, M16. Is someone able to explain the shooting plate, please? It seems to have to do something with the range and the minutes of shooting, right? Thanks a lot. -- Edited by Ruhrpottpreusse on Friday 12th of November 2021 04:05:05 AM
Maybe one for Mad Zeppelin. The A7V book reprint (2020). Page 96, the last photo in the book. An A7V stuck nose-down in a ditch. It's credited to the Jochen Vollert Collection, but I can't see a caption anywhere. I've looked over and over again, and it might be staring me in the face, but I can't spot it. An...
thought I might pass this new release on to the group. This is the 1914 model, the 1916 model is also available. You will note the kit includes the limber.
A still from a very short film clip of an A7V. Only 3 or 4 seconds. British (?) soldier walks into shot, turns to camera, and grins. That's it. Might be old hat, but I don't recall it.
Just finished, a gamma 42cm model in the scale 1/35. Figures are converted Trumpeter WW2 figures with heads from Jon Smith Modellbau. The gun is a laser printed model with the big parts casted in PUR resin. Panzerconcepts. I opted for a simulated groundwork, the part under groundlevel are so enormou...
Hello! I´ve found this photo. Unfortunately I can´t determine that gun. We see german soldiers, but that doesn´t mean, it´s a german one. I´d be glad, if someone could help. Thanks a lot!
Dear Friends,I am looking for an article entitled: “Russian Armored Railway Cars” from: The Cavalry Journal, Vol. XXXVII, April 1929, No 155.Can anyone help me? Yours Chris.
I'm considering an article for Landships II on the Naval guns used by the Italian Army in WW1. These were often mounted on the somewhat bizarre looking De Stefano carriage. However, there was also a mounting/platform that the De Stefano carriage sat on during firing. This was a pair of rails with a woo...
Hello! I bought this (already built) nice 1/35 model from a Renault FT with an 8mm Hotchkiss. As far as I know, the patches are from 2nd platoon, 1st company, 344 Tank Battalion, 304 Tank Brigade, US Army 1) Is that right? 2) What about the number "706"? Is it a right one, or should I better try to remove it?...
on the greatwarforum.org in their books section there is a post on a book that some on this site might find use full: Lastkraftwagen German Military trucks Volume 1 and 2 Jochen Vollert
I know this has been discussed before but I searched for that discussion and was thwarted. This famous photo of a pigeon being released from a tank is usually cropped but in the larger version there is a number visible. To me it looks like the number is 4069 or perhaps 4089, which would make this a MkIV, bu...
Hello, I am in the process of modelling this fascinating, historical gun in SolidWorks. Have attached raw renders of the current state. Comments are welcome; there are still a lot of details missing and/or unclear, but at least the overall proportions are way better than the Takom kit. My sources ar...
Came across the American engineer Emil Francis Norelius who apparently worked for Holt during WW1 and designed or significantly contributed to the designof the 1918 Holt SPGs. He also designed the M1921 Medium tank which incorporated some of the design features of the British Medium D.Anyone e...
Production of the 42cm granate introduced a filling step where molten TNT is poured into the granate. During cool down the TNT shrinks but starts to solidify from the the outsides in. This can cause a solid outside while the core is still molten and fluid. If you continue a open cavity/ space will be cre...
The Trefass-Wagen was a Hansa-Lloyd design from 1917. The prototype was finished on February 1st, 1917. It had two large steel wheels with a diameter of approximately 11ft. The rear wheel was similar to a large caster and was used for steering. It had extensions mounted on both sides of the steering y...
The Steam 3-Wheeled Tank remains the most mysterious tank built in the US in World War I. Here's a couple of new pieces to the puzzle. I found a second photo of the pilot sitting at APG in the mid 1920s at NARA. Unfortunately, it is from the rear rather than the front which is already relatively well unders...
Am building the 35th scale model by Luis Vargas - any idea what colour (if any) it was painted? I'm leaning towards plain steel as it was so big, there was no point in camouflaging it!! Looking at the photos, it does seem to be dark in some of them, but in others, not.
Dear all, since I am aware of the existance of this medal (since 1992) I was looking for it. Never seen one, but now I found one. But .... I only know it was made for the 70th anniversary of the battle of Berry au bac and the first engagement of the Char Schneider. My medal is stamped with the number 147 at t...
Very quiet on the Forum lately. Have we discovered all there is to know? Anyway, I'm trying to find trench maps for the Battle of the Selle, 17–25 October 1918, particularly in the vicinity of Regnicourt, Andigny-les-Fermes, and Vaux-Andigny, south of Le Cateau. Maybe a long shot, but Landshippers...
I am hoping that some of the forum members may be able to help me to better understand the construction of the early British tanks. I am attempting to construct 1/12 scale models and a 3d CAD model of each mark, I have a bunch of original blueprints from Bovington, but they are incomplete. I am tryinig to u...
