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...
A matter that's been at the back of my mind for a while is the lack of unditching rails on Mks V** and VIII. Obviously they arrived too late for combat, thus didn't need them fitted, but I'm wondering if the change in the nature of battle in 1918, with increasingly open battlefields and the ground not bein...
Just received Destination Western Front: London's Omnibuses Go To War, by Roy Larkin.Excellent. Lots of info. Some new pics. Clears up several confused areas.Covers D-Type (which were just B-Types under another name, and nothing to do with Daimler of Germany), B-Type, Y-Type, and several other...
Hi all,? I am currently doing some figure conversions from some revell WW2 German?engineers. I am converting them into WWI German pioneers, and would like some info on the Fatigue uniform worn when doing trench construction filling sandbags etc. any thoughts? ? Greetings, Josh
Recently I've been stocking up on various?Masterclub guns and painting them up according to references I've found on Wikipedia.? (They're very nicely molded but unfortunately extremely fragile and irreparable if damaged.)? They make quite a variety, and mix up various types in each package.? O...
This real photo postcard has been in my collection for years and I would appreciate your views concerning the tank and its location, tanslation of the German message, and identification of the unit the sender belonged to.? The postmark is dated Sept. 14, 1917
In 1969-70 I was in an armored cavalry regiment, and when our equipment was badly damaged or destroyed it was termed "a combat loss".? Presumably a 1917-8 report of survey similarly accounted for this?tracked vehicle.? An identification of the remains and any details of its unit and dem...
Looking for something else a Google search turned up a first hand account of his units escape to Vladivostock via the Trans Siberian railway (courtesy of the Czech Legion) by a member of a Belgian armoured car squadron. It appears they had to destroy their cars first but doesn't say what they were nor w...
