Hi all, I am restoring a lovely pair of Fernglas 1908 binoculars, and request the input of anyone here who is an optics expert. I need the? answer to only one question. Is the eyecup for an OIGEE Fernglas 08 interchangeable with a GOERTZ eyecup for the same type binocular? The replacement piece is off a G...
Not sure if I'm imagining this but I think I remember reading that a small Tank action took place at Thiepval on the 25th or 26th Sept, 1916. I believe it said that?perhaps two?Tanks advanced without a preliminary bombardment and successfully took the village, which had been holding out since July 1s...
? Hi all. I have been trying to contact with Modell Trans via e-mail since three days ago and they have not answered me. Because it?s the first time I try to do it, is it usual in this producer/vendor or not? Is it in business or in vacation? Any suggestion/idea? ?
Hello, ???? First let me intoduce myself: I live in the United States in the state of Idaho. I first became interested in WW1, when I was ten years old and did a essay on the Battle of the Somme.? I have watched this forum for about a year and a half now, and have decided to make my first post, anonymously at fi...
? This one is pretty obscure - but if there's a forum that accumulates obscurities - it's this one: Guy Fran?ois, ??Les mat?riels dartillerie lourde sur voie ferr?e ? tr?s longue port?e 1918-1940??,?Revue historique des arm?es,?no?4, 1988,?p.?76-81I'm trying to work up an article on the French r...
Shockingly enough, I managed to get an Emhar 1/35 Mark V Tank kit at last!? (The supplier himself has said that he too has trouble obtaining these things.) I'd love to build one in British WW1 use, but a few questions: 1) I can find no references on the Mark V tank other than in an Osprey book about the Russi...
Hi all. First time on this forum but hope that I might find some info here. I've been toying for some time with the idea of making a scale model of a Mk V**, but one with the bridging equipment on from 1919. However other than some rather distant pics its hard to find anything with much detail. Does anyone ha...
A somewhat off-topic question I know. ..but, I figured someone here may be able to advise me.. On a recent visit to the Somme, one of the locals gave me examples of both german and british barbed wire...approx 20cm lengths each. I hope to treat/preserve them and mount them on a plate to hang on the wall. S...
Have managed to leave my Osprey German Panzers book about 100 miles away but not sure it would help answer these anyway - a friend is asking about the crew roles for the A7V, and also the standard tactics of German tank crews during WW1 - can anyone help or point me to an online source? ? Thanks, Rob
Hi all, ? Can anyone give me any historical info on the Medium A whippet given to SA in 1919 being known as HMLS Union?? I know it is now sited at the SA College in Pretoria but I am looking for more historical info on this machine.? This is what I have found out so far: The first tank in SA was a Whippet Medium Ma...
Here are some pictures of the Major Models 1/35 Ehrhardt Panzerkraftwagen: a really challenging model to keep you busy for long time and made out of a strange, and I think, rather unhealthy kind of resin. The extra details are depicted in dark grey on the pictures of?the partly?finished model.?The m...
Hi! There are five photos at least of the 15 pdr BLC in Russia of the year 1919, I found in runet recently. 1. In Siberia http://siberia.for um24.ru/?1-7-0-00000016-000-0-0-135 4859144 2. In Far East. ?http://www.photo-war.com/ru/archive s/album3366.htm There are n...
Hello, I am a new member who has an odd item from our family posessions. I am hoping I'll be able to upload a couple of images below.It is a model tank with cannon that 'fires' a coin into the body of the tank. It appears to be cast in a light metal possibly aluminium. The tank measures about 9" long by 4&...
Hello, I am not sure if this is the correct Forum topic but here it goes... Does anyone know what the shell colors were for the British 6" Howitzer?? The only reference I could find was this photo from the Ian Hogg book on Allied Artillery of WWI. Thanks in advance, Rob for the USA
I just finished a Roden 1920 Rolls Royce. The idea was to depict a late RAF mark1a pattern deployed in the Middle East in the late thirties. The kit is rather nice but needs some improvement and as the large tyre is not available yet (may be from Hussard some day?) the closest I've found is the desert tyre f...
Okay, this is definitely not WW1, or even close, but the roughly rhomboid shape (the tracks are suggestive of a bloated Char 2C overdosed on steroids) and casemated armament give it a decidedly retro look even for 1940, so I thought it might be entertaining to chuck it in here. Described as a 'Movable M...
At the casters at this moment but one set of the new W^D figure sets,W^D 32 Pioneers. The figures and the picture used for the masters. If you would like pic's of the other sets then let me know. Comments appreciated.
Any plans around for those machines? I found elements for WWII in patents but so far nothing on the Parabolo?de Baillaud or other exotic devices (t?l?sitem?tre Perrin for example). Those would make intriguing models ... Thank you JCC
Someone - who IIRC contributes to this forum - once posted a very short film clip on Youtube that briefly showed the Marienwagen II in action in a city street during a civil disturbance of some kind. Anyone remember it? Anyone know who it was and what happened to it?
Help to find urgently the documentation on tanks in a format PDF The book in a format is very urgently necessary PDF "A compendium of drawings of?Tank Mark V-IX and of some experimental tank"???? 1918Y.
