Having had Bob Grundy's A7V working repro (from Wigan !) parked outside my office for some days, my interest in WW1 tanks has been revived. In particular, I am interested in?Manchester's role in tank manufacture. There was a 'Manchester Tank Group', headed by West's Gas Improvement Company, and co...
Has anyone scale drawings and images of the above. The only plan I can find is in the Shire book Horse Drawn transport of the British Army but that is more of a sketch. Thanks
I have read a lot of postings on this forum and know there are some very knowledgeable contributors here. So I have two questions. Well, ok. One is a question, one is a request. Question:? Das Ehrenbuch der Deutschen Schweren Artillerie shows that two units used the 42cm Dicke Bertha a.k.a Kurze Marin...
This may have been a source of puzzlement and/or angst to some members ... Just recently the forum "spam protection" feature seems to have decided that some posts submitted with two or more "clickable" links might be spam.? When it does that, it flags the post as "SPAM COM...
News from the Ministry of Truth. 1. Airfix are releasing special "wartime" editions of their 1/32 Ole Bill Bus, Rolls Royce Silver Ghost, and Ford Model T. 2. Roden are making their Rolls Royce Armoured Car in 1/72. It will be out by Wintersolsticetime. 3. Emhar?will soon release?their 1...
the centenary of the great war will be upon us in less than two years and I was thinking, there is another thread on this subject but I thought I would raise it again; I was thinking of emailing the model companies and asking them to produce more?Great War figures and kits, any opinions on this?.?
Hi I'm making a diorama of a short section of trench, flanders, c 1915. Naturally this is going to need sandbags to support the walls and the breastwork, lots and lots of them. I've seen some great instructions for making them individually in milliput, but given how many I need and the fact that the figu...
?I'm restoring a WB Thornycroft J AA lorry and need to touch up some paint chips.? Can anyone suggest some paint (hopefully acrylic) that would do the job? Thanks . . . Bosun Al
In 13 parts a blow by blow account which?must have?been written by a Japanese authour and translated sometime in the 1930s?it includes some incredible detail on forces actions fortifications etc around?Tsingtao in 1914..... A complete detailed operational history of the Siege till its fall. Hi...
I spent hours in botching two Schwarzlose machine guns for my Austro-Hungarians, naturally now a manufacturer does them: http://www.zinnfiguren-schilling.de/ (See "WW II" in the left menu - they also do a Lewis gun to go with their Dutch WW2 figures)
hello, I am trying without much luck , to find information on French world war one? pillboxes and trench bunkers and fortifications in particular. All I find on the net is German and British bunkers and pillboxes. Can anyone help? thanks. ?
I was copying some of my Belgian WWI photos tonight, and ran across a couple of armored car images I thought Landship readers might appreciate. The first is simply a commercial card showing an Automitrailleuse S.A.V.A., ca. 1915 (the Belgians are wearing the "Yser" pattern uniforms dis...
Acc to S. Zaloga (1988), "In 1940 the US supplied 329 Six-Ton Tanks to Canada and 212 to Great Britain for training purposes." The Canadian ones we know about. Where do the GB ones fit in? Has anyone seen confirmation of that figure anywhere else? Since it's quoted separately from the Canad...
OK, it's not part of WW1 I know but it's in the same time period! I've been looking at doing a game based on some of the Revolutionary armies, maybe using the Jacklex range of figures (I think the Raventhorpe range look too big, and anyway I'd have to get them shipped from the US) and some conversions from?...
Hello again all,? I discovered a copy of Hundleby's A7V book in the refrence section of my local library... I understand it's a 20 year old book & so much has been discovered and corrected since it's publication so I will ask the experts here. Page 224 lower image, Krupp multi plate A7V with flexed s...
Photomontage of a "flying tank" from the year 1932. I realize that this is a political photomontage as anti-war propaganda. Probably comes the collage by John Heartfield.But now to my question, which is apparently used for this a tank of the British Mark-series. Is it provided a real rol...
Hi all ? There was a very long and informative thread on these wagons a short while ago (especially for the linguists amongst us!) but on looking at it I find that it hasn't answered the question?I have now I come to make the Hat WW1 wagons, which is: what colour should they be? I am assuming some sort of fie...
Hello, I'd like to introduce myself here. My name is Frantisek and I'm focused on Great War kits in 1/35. Here is my K-wagen I finished this week. It takes three days to build it - very easy kit.
This last week, or so, I've been putting another Emhar Mk IV together. I thought I'd try out some "Mr. Surfacer" after reading John's build of the HaT Deport guns. I couldn't get Mr Surfacer in any of my local shops, but one owner told me that Liquid Green Stuff by Citadel was the same kind of pr...
I know that there were some elite assault formations in the French army, called "grenadiers d'elite" or "groups franc". However almost nothing about them can be found in books (at least those I know) or in the Internet. Is this because they were less numerous than German and Au...
Hi; I just purchased a casing for the 10.5x655cm SK marine Flak and I'm having some trouble finding photos of the gun. What pre?-WW1 ships used this gun?. I think it is marked? IX-1897 [sept 1897] with naval stamp. Would appreciate any information on this gun and some photos to go with it??? Dick
hello, can anyone tell how I would scratchbuild the French wicker style revetting found in World War One trenches at 1/72 scale?. Also, where can I find wire thin enough to represent barbed wire at 1/72 scale, in my day ?yes, 40 years ago, we used to build all our own stuff, not like today you know, dont kn...
