Our friends at the H?T Forum have been looking into this piece, which I should think most people would assume at first sight to be German. It turns out to be a Schneider-Canet, M Canet being the designer of the screw-breech. The name is a new one on me. Customers included Portugal and the Boers.
Hi all, I am gearing up for a Korps strengthening and was wondering how compatiable are? most of IT miniatures line with 1-72 and 1-76 scales? ? Greetings, Josh
This is from the Mk V* section on chars fran?ais. It looks to me like Americans, with lots of FTs in the background, standing in front of a Mk something - IV? How could that have come about?
Hi, I am intending to make a model of a British FT-17 tank from 1918. Does anyone have any idea as to what colour scheme would have been used. I've read that only weaponless vehicles were used for command/comms work, but if anyone can verify this as well I would be obliged. ? ANS
Gentlemen ... ? I wanted to share with you my newest addition to my collection. It is a German beer mug. It sohws the sign of the "Freikorps von Epp" / "Bayerische Sch?tzenbrigade 21". The writing says "Kampfwagen-Zug 21" (AC platoon 21). The back shows also the name...
It seems that I have 4 new private messages, but there's no sign of them anywhere, and the thingy that tells me I've got them won't go away. I don't think I know 4 people. Anyone else got this?
On the alexanderpalace.org site Alexander Palace Time Machine section there is a online book "Blood Stained Russia" where there is a Mgebrov-? 2 turret armored car in the hands of the City Milita or CM. this is probablyright after the Febuary/March Revolution. Perhaps somebody can hav...
HelloStartswith a newscene-inspiredme thisphoto.Tryingto find thecurrentlylookslikethis place,unfortunatelyto no avail.Frenchmanwill usethis- if youneedtofigurealtered,becauseI'm not sureabout th...
I know that they both wore the m1860 shako and, to me surprisingly, the m1813 cap but i have seen many photographs and drawings of them wearing the m1860 shakos both with AND without their covers during wartime. Was this just because of supply shortages that gave the landsturm and landwehr thier uniqu...
In the Alexanderpalace.org site there is some information on the cars used by Tsar Nicholas II. Alexander palace Time machine there is a section the The imperial garage. They include some delaunay-Bellvilles many Mercedes and 2 Rolls royces at livida in the crimea. on the forum section dealing tra...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=282LbvDEmow Starts with early Tanks. Usual hotch-potch of Tank footage, and some clangers, but not a bad intro. Can't as yet find Part II.
Hi all, As mentioned in my first post, I intend to build a diorama of a light railway line operated by the Americans. I just started with my first bit of rolling stock, a 60 cm gauge Pershing drop-side gondola. The kit is made by Meridian Models and is sold under it's Maquette range. The scale is 1:76 and it...
Yes, I got the Masterclub?resin kit from Colorado Miniatures.? Looks very nice, and it gives assembly directions, but do I correctly believe the base is made of wood planks and everything above is steel?? This site does thankfully have museum?pictures of the mortar assembly itself, but there is no...
