? The last A7V #506 Mephisto isn't at the Queensland Museum - it was moved out to an undisclosed location for restoration of the flood damage. The museum has said it will be back next year in a new location above the flood level. Regards, Charlie ? ?
Here's all the unidentified artillery pieces from my Gallipoli trip - some on the Gallipoli peninsula, most across the Dardanelles in Cannakale in the superb Naval Museum ? [IMG]https://i282...
I have been wanting to buy the Hat American W.W.1 soldiers but I am not at all knowledgable about uniform colors. I was hoping someone could recommend a Vallejo color to match the U.S. uniform color. Thank you, any help would be appreciated.
A bit late in the day to ask this, but does anyone know the length of the wheelbase and overall length of the Holt 75 and Baby? Also the length of track in contact with hard ground? Can't find any plans or references to these. Much obliged for help.
Still preserved at their original site on the Gallipoli peninsula is this battery of four French 24cm Modele 1876 coastal guns on their 360 degree traverse GPC mountings. Three had the ends blown off but the charge in the fourth didn't go off. The guns are sited in two seperate fields, two guns per fiel...
For those interested in the above I have just put on the W^D website gallery-latest entries some pic's sent to me by Alvin Perkins of Canada,the Den Bels Autocar and some W^D figures. Awesome work.
I'd never heard of this until very recently. It struck me as strange because the British at that time did not use millimetres for gun calibre (they would have said QF 13pdr, or QF 3in, for example). It took me a while to get to see this gun, but here it is: [img]http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5197/7203...
Dear all does anyone know where i can get a better printout or copy of the attached drawing of the FT-17 tank. If you look at the one i have , its done in three sections and?not joined together properly by the turret top hatch and just in front of the rear sprocket wheel, so i can't realy scale up the parts of t...
I'm not a believer of the paranormal but look at the photo's of the car (Graf&Stift) in which Franz-Ferdinand was killed (as told one of the reasons to start WW1): Plate number: A11 1118 : when the "A" is concidered as abrevation of Armistice (In French and English), the rest is the date...
I noticed that tracks in MK tanks are completely unarmoured. Is there any practical reason for it? Also, I noticed that tracks in k-wagen were under armour. Would the armour provide significant protection to them?
This is a trophy gun on display in Niagara Falls, Ontario. On the breech it has the number 39. Looking up this number on the War Trophy allocation list tells me it was recorded as 105mm calibre. Hoever it does not look like a?10.5cm l. Feldhaubitze 98/09, or a?10.5cm leichte Feldhaubitze 16. It also doe...
Hi all, there is 8mm ammunition, 9, I think even 7, but why are there so many calibres without a round number so to speak: 7,62, 12,7 etc. for rifles, pistols and MG's. Where does that come from? regards Kieffer
It's the accepted wisdom that the 75mm BS stands for Blockhaus Schneider. Thinking about it, I wonder if that's true. It was fitted to the CA in a barbette. What has that got to do with a blockhaus? Fair enough, it was in a fixed casemate on the Renault FT 75 BS, but it was called the BS before that. I am incre...
Hi Has anyone any idea of where I could get hold of some scale plans of the above.There is a side elevation in Landships of Lincoln which is excellent but no scale is mentioned. Many thanks
? Image from the IWM archive - no information on the vehicle except that it's inter-war. The tracks look like a variation on the snake track with ball and socket joints between the track elements. Regards, Charlie ? -- Edited by CharlieC on Saturday 28th of April 2012 07:19:54 AM
For those interested in the WD Light Railways the F Class is now available. The kit resin body,whitemetal stanchions and comes with the Parkside Dundas W^D bogies.
? We seem to be having a bunch of card model WW1 Russian armoured cars coming out of the woodwork. Another free model from WAK models -?Free Poplavko-Jeffery in 1/25 scale. Simple model - I used it to trial embossing rivets rather than sticking tiny disks on. I wasn't too worried about the colour - proba...
I've just found reference to this in the IWM catalogue.? Its full title is "Infighter the history of the 9 Battalion, Tank Corps 1916 - 1919".? It seems to have been published by Valentine, NSW in 2004. I've never heard of it. Has anyone seen it and is it any good? Gwyn
To prove to myself and everyone else I have at last got down to modelling my LR project.I am going to do a series of dio's . Here is the beginings of the first.
Intresting photos of Latvia armor-tanks and a.c . http://rix.ucoz.ru/photo/21 the 1919/1930... -- Edited by plastikk on Thursday 21st of June 2012 08:53:30 PM
From 1777 to the 1950's: http://armesfrancaises.free.fr/les%20fusils.html I was looking up the Lebel 1886 rifle and found few illustrations until I found this site. -- Edited by Long Tom on Tuesday 27th of March 2012 02:57:17 AM
Many thanks to plastikk for directing us to that collection. I might not be the first to have noticed this, but in the pic below there is something protruding from the rear of the housing of the "horn" - maybe a tensioner for the idler? There's also a rod of some kind joining the pair of horns on...
Here are a couple of photos of my paper model of the Russo-Balt armored car from the allfrompaper.ru site. When printed full size on A4 paper?it scales out to 1/43rd as the designer intended, but?it shrinks down a bit when printed on letter sized paper, and the resulting model is @ 1/45th scale. I mount...
