I came across a very obscure, but interesting reading the other day.. "Attack of the Dead Men" from "The Defense of the Fortress Osowiec” (1915). Very interesting reading and the only english translation of the original russian story. The story is too long to just copy/paste it here, but you can read...
Am starting on the new 1/10 FT-17 by Lubos that debuted several weeks ago. Printed all body panels, turret & detail parts in SLA resin, structure & running parts in FDM PLA+. Aside from some minor tolerance issues in the track, overall pleased as I start assembly. Overall very well designed &...
For those interested in RC tanks, there is a 3DP 1/16 Mark IV underway. No firm date yet on release but expect it will be available before Hooben's. Will an A7V, Whippet or St Chamond be far behind? Hooben is due to release their metal/resin kit in June.
It's known that Schneider built at least one SPG with a 220mm L gun. However, there's hardly any information around about this vehicle. It survived until WW2 - there are images of the Schneider SPG with Wehrmacht troops. I found this claim at: http://basart.artillerie.asso.fr/article.php3?i...
I made good progress with my British Medium Mk D.I decided for the Medium DM as I had the best detailed pictures of this version.Having only these pictures, the overall dimensions and a lot of conflicting other information ,this model is the result of a lot of guesswork.Before printing the model in 3D...
Built mainly straight out of the box, the only modifications were to replace the gun shields with 0.25mm styrene, replace the engine cover handles with 0.3mm brass rod and thin down the edges of the wheel arches a little more. It's a great little kit and goes together very easily I used the kit decals fo...
The Wikipedia article on the LK II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LK_II says that "the M/21-29 at the German Tank Museum, (is) modified back to its original German design." Surely, this is the original German design: Or is that not what they mean?
Like everybody I have a long list of models that I never made because of lack ofgood drawings and other information. Now I have decided not to wait any longer and just start with them, trying to reconstruct from pictures and guessing the rest.The first one is the Tritton Chaser, the prototype for the...
For those wanting an FT-17 in a larger collectable scale, Minialand released today his 1/6 3DP FT-17. Comes with detailed interior including skid plate floor & wood idler options. I'll start on this once I finish the Lubos version & already have a Dragon Model tank crew for driver. You can...
I hope our modeller friends in Ukraine, and our friends at Strelets, ICM, and Roden are safe, and that the Mark Vs survive this horror. Is there anything we can do?
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...
