Many of the early 7.7cm Feldkanone 96 n.As have two cyphers on the barrel - a state cypher and the Imperial cypher. The Prussian state cypher is pretty common but I've found one I'm not sure about - it's on a gun at Beaufort in Victoria, Australia between the muzzle and the Imperial Wilhelm II cypher. I t...
I am very sorry to have to report the death in December 2021, of Robert Georges Claude Ernst-Metzmaier, who was, believe it or not, the son of Rodolphe Ernst-Metzmaier. Robert was 97. His father, designer of the Renault FT in 1917, lived to be 98, dying in 1985. I had the good fortune to correspond with R...
Hello! Last year I built the wonderful CMK model of the 30,5 cm Skoda siege mortar. And this mortar needs an artilleritractor. For my 38cm Skoda gun I have built the super model of the M 16 tractor from Plus model. The traktor of the 30,5cm was the Austro Daimler M12/16. For there is no model in 1/35 availa...
I've been trying to research more about the K-Wagen lately, and I've found it quite troubling trying to dig up what engines were planned on being used for it. Sources tend to agree that two "Daimler-Benz diesel 6-cylinder producing 650 hp each for a combined total of 1,300 hp" engines were used, but I'...
IIRC, Charlie C observed some time ago that the recovery of Mephisto could be characterised as "instigated by Australian local command, executed by the British (1st GC Co.) with help from Australian infantry," and that such a description was unlikely to go down well in certain quarters. It seems, t...
Hello everyone here on the forum. Please, what is your expert estimate of the combination of colors on Big Bertha,s 42 cm? 1, Base dark grey + yellow and brown spots2, Base dark green + yelow and brown spots3, Base grey green + yellow and brown spots.I found a lot of variants from modellers - were there so...
Handbook for the Q.F. Hotchkiss 2.244-inch, 6-pdr., 6-cwt. Mark II gun with tank mounting -- Edited by Druid_Ian on Monday 10th of January 2022 04:20:56 PM
Spotted this in a 1919 US Army Ordnance Manual. I haven't heard of it before - certainly haven't seen any images of the vehicle. It seemed to have been based on the Mark VIII tank. Anyone have any more information on it? Regards, Charlie
Occasionally the NARA image collection throws up something quite weird. Like the attached - said to have been taken in October 1917 and is of a retreating Russian artillery piece alongside a British armoured car. The artillery piece is, I think, a 152mm Canet gun on an improvised carriage. The towi...
I guess many people are aware of NARA - the US Archives. The volume of information stored there is immense and I recently came across a section with movie clips of the US Army artillery in France. As an example - https://catalog.archives.gov/id/24911 (click on the film icon to view) has 155mm Schne...
Hello! I just received this finished Whippet. Unfortunately the pre-owner took the red IX. As far as I know, was this one worn 1919 in Northern Ireland. Do you know, if the B6 patches for Amiens 1918 are still available? Thanks a lot!
I guess most people interested in WW1 vehicles may have wondered how the multi-colour camouflage schemes were applied. These were often 3 or 4 colours often with delineating black lines. The paints of the time were slow drying and spray painting was very rare. There is an well known image of woman wo...
I'm building a Mark IV Supply Tank based on the Takom kit. I was looking for some reference phots in the Beute-Tanks British Tanks in German Service Vol. 1/2 (Tankograd). I've found a few nice pictures, but I have a question related to the escape hatch on driver's cabin. So far I thought that these were i...
I'm always looking for books describing WW1 vehicles and have been able to acquire a number in either digital or paper format. Was wondering what some of your favorites are? Though I've not modelled many yet, this is the ultimate goal. Other than the Tankograd series I'm not aware of many referenc...
I think this is the longest period of inactivity on the forum that I can remember. Have we actually discovered everything there is to know? A very happy Christmas to all Landshippers.
Hi all, it's been some time since my last post but I need some help with some markings on a Holts gun tractor which has white swastika symbols on it, would like to find which Reg. or Corp. it was used on. Many Thanks!
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 (Almost accidentally posted to the general Tanks page by mistake). I have been researching the tanks of WW1 to make a game to play...
Hi, I've been making this interior kit as a big project for myself for quite a while now, and I just want to check if it's decent enough for modelling standards. All the help would be appreciated, thanks.
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...
