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...
Hello, after some searching for references I started with my new model. First I want to complete the wheels for the lorry. To create the rims I took the wheels of a Panther from Revell and changed them with a little bit work,some tubes and discs of polistyrol.The rivets are made with a tool. Thanks for wa...
A new 1/72 Tank Mark I is now available, made by?Mister X. It is not available in shops, but you can buy it direct from Mister X on his ebay presence, here. (His other WWI models are available there too; Austin armoured car, Supply tank sponsons, and correct MkIV male sponsons)
On the excellent Delcampe site. The vendor couldn't i.d. the subject, but I managed to scrape my knowledge together and realised this is quite unusual. It's a postcard, but a personal one rather than a mass-produced or official one. The man is a lieutenant in the Carabiniers (hunting horn and two sta...
Not quite sure if this was ever posted on the forum before, bute quite usefull. Reference on the colours of hat cords used on the campaign style hats of WW1 through to the 30's. It is from a small booklet published in the 20's.
Here are some postings I've noticed recently. A picture speaks a thousand words in every language, so if you were wondering about the quality of some of HaT's products, feast your eyes (to mix many metaphors!). I am not responsible for any of these; I just stumbled upon them. However, at least two of th...
Greetings all! I just joined the forum, and I thought I'd introduce myself. I'm a card modeller, and have a particular interest in WWI armored vehicles. I'm hoping to tap into the vast reservoir of knowledge here to improve my modelling, and hopefully contribute a little myself. I'm currently build...
Hi All Having major computer disaster at home.? Not sure if the problem's the computer, modem, roadworks or the ISP but can't get on line.? Having to type this at the local library.? Anyone trying to e-mail me, please be patient ... very patient! Gwyn
Possibly of some interest here are a couple of pages of photographs of Russian Civil War re-enactors at work. ?One of the pages includes some pictures of a replica armoured car (a Garford-Putilov, I think). Worth a look if the subject is of interest to you and you haven't already come across these phot...
In looking through Grosser Bildatlas der Weltkriegs online In Band 3 Page 219 there is a picture of some captured Russian "Panzerautos" one looks like a Austin and the other looks like an Poplavko-jeffery and there might be another one behind them that i can't id. Perhaps some on this site...
Since it's become obvious lately that several contributors have quite detailed info on Tank Corps personnel, I wonder if anyone has come across my neighbour's father, especially since he had the somewhat unusual name of Cyphus. He seems to have attained the rank of Lieutenant. There's also the pos...
I notice that EDS wrote another autobiog in 1951 -?Over My Shoulder. Anyone read it? Does it add anything to the info in Eyewitness? Any opinions welcome.
Hi all, For those of you who are interested, I am building a model (1:76) of a French Kerr Staurt 'Joffre'. I have als been trying to find more information about the colour schemes that the French used for their locomotives. Even found a great recipe?for 'vert arm?e', which was also used on the French ta...
