I know this has come up before but I can't remember and can't find the information. I know that flimsies came in three colours, red, black and ________ ? What was in the flimsies: was red for petrol, black for water, and ________ for oil? I know that often the colour code wasn't stuck to, because I have rea...
I week or so ago while surfing the web, I stumbled across a B&W jpeg of an undeveloped E-V/4 card model. So far, I haven't been able to find who the designer is. It looked promising, so I thought I'd play around with it and see if I could make a presentable model out of it. I resized the rivets, colored an...
A little while ago I made a posting on the axis history forum asking about the OOBs of the 1916 brusilov offensive, in the reply besides the divisions ect it listed the autopolemetaye platoons? which I believe are armored car platoons here are the platoons and what corps and army they were assigned to:...
Picture is from "Illustrated War News April 7th 191(?)5, found on google. Title says it is a car made for the Austrian Army and to be used on land and water. The little Txt I can't read, anyone knows if it is really used (in the army) or was it just an experiment? What type of car is it? DJ
While I have a little bit of knowledge, about WWI US Army heavy tanks, I am thirsting for more.As I understand it:The US Army had two tank battalions of British Mark V* tanks, with 45 tanks per battalion.? The tanks included both male, female and composite tanks.Once the war was over, the US Army scrapp...
Almost from the box - RPM and resin from Modell Trans. Painting-Bolshevik Russia 1919/1920.Dark grenn overall. ? -- Edited by plastikk on Saturday 28th of July 2012 08:23:32 PM
Well, i start to show you some good items that i have find on Skra the last 2 weeks Image1 (well here i have a M16 German Helmet of German positions on Skra di Legen) Image2 (Here some Bulgarian bullets of Styer Mannlicher 8mm and 5 on their clip m/95 Styer Mannlicher, and some French Lebel 8mm Bullets that...
So I was putting together another list for the strengthing of my Korps, and I noticed the following. ? -Tracks-n-troops website is down. -Also, Anybody know if the owner of unted-fun.com is out of town or something? ? If anyone else has tried to do some ordering lately, and also noticed these things, t...
i've just been looking through photos? I have and others on this site and it struck me that the Tank in the hole looks like The one taken when Deborah was excavated What do you think ? Or is this old news...!?
Gentleman, ? ... if some of you want to build your own German Tank .... ? .... here are the plans ..... ? Kind Regards Chris -- Edited by elbavaro on Wednesday 18th of July 2012 09:33:43 PM
This appears to be a new-ish webiste recording, so far, a fraction of the Australian trophy guns in memorials and, seemingly, many recently restored: http://ubique.smugmug.com/AustraliaWide-GunHunt Don't understand the...
Found googling "Sonderbahn" and verwundetentransport, I've not seen them before DJ Ambulance with two "carts" ? How still use a car without wheels or engine Krankentransport der "Sonderbahn"
That's the claim being made on an online encyclopaedia. If I understand this bit of history correctly, I find it hard to believe. It seems to me that: Philippines were under U.S. control for early part of 20th century; independent army established only after WWII; tanks deployed by U.S. in Philippin...
Looks like our hosts - Sparlit ActiveBoard.com have made some changes or are in the process of doing so.? No doubt these are intended to be "transparent" to users but we might notice one or two things. I usually enter the forum via the "Recent posts" page, my browser history URL (...
Hi Has anyone got a good photograph of a full side elevation of the above. Also on some there was rope wrapped around the barrel.Was this to keep the recuperator cool.I have read somewhere that water was poured on the rope to keep the barrel cool. The reasons for these questions is that I am at long last do...
I spent the past weekend at the Bovington Tank Museum's 'Tankfest' event. As a living historian with the Great War Society, I was one of several members doing 1917 Tank crew during most of the day, then a quick change into 1917 infantry to match the rest of the group for the battle arena display in the lat...
Includes Light Railways of The First World War (W.J.K. Davies, 1967), J.F.C. Fuller's autobiog, and many more. All expensive, but they tend to be. This is a new one on me: In the Wake of the Tank by Lt-Col G. Le Q. Martel: The Story of the First Eighteen Years of Mechanization in the British Army. No websi...
I have a number of questions that are artillery related: I understand the Germans used 72 mortars during the Gorice-Tarnow Offensive of 1915. Does anyone know what type and caliber of mortars they would have been using? When did the germans start using poison gas shells in combat? Is there a place on t...
Very interesting tagging. "tpt transport truck lorry wagon army soldier military war aldershot sale germany land boat ship sail yacht daimler 243 is an uberlandwagen, effectively a7v tank witho...
