I'm considering the Matador Models Mk I Female conversion kit, does anyone have it and know what it consists of? Aside from the Female sponsons which aren't really needed with the Airfix sponsons now, I suppose it is a replacement roof and cab (which are needed)? As far as I'm aware it's the only game in...
Thought I'd post a pic of the latest RetroTracks kit... Even by 1914 standards, this artillery piece did look old-fashioned, but it was a very modern weapon when designed, after the Franco-Prussian War.? So much so that the French army tasked engineer de Bange to design other similar weapons of vari...
I'm hoping someone can help me in figuring out the gear ratio for the final drives on the Renault FT or US M1917?? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Warren
About three weeks ago I visited the first time the re-opened "Milit?rhistorische Museum" (MHM) in Dresden. I knew already the new exhibition would deal with "Culture of Force" and not? with traditional approaches to military history.? Nevertheless, I had a number of momen...
Daily Mail website has an article about some WW1 German drawings that are being put up for auction. They seem to think the drawings are all meant to be funny, but fail to the get the joke if so. Search term: humorous german cartoons ? BTW - anyone noticed the tumbleweed blowing through the forum this week...
hi all, since the fsf kit of the creep tank is realy hard to get, i want to try and scratch one. does anybody by chance have measurements of the creep tank? and of the mobile shield which is in the same museum in brussels? it would really help me out. photo's are enough to be found on the web, but how big it is, n...
In the program "The great War and the shaping of the 20th century" Part 5 Mutiney there are a couple of armored cars in film clips of the Russian revolution One includes a half track with a can sticking out of the rear. And some others i can't identify. the other shortly afterwards looks like i...
This will be an off topic post, I do sheetmetal and weld wire sculpture/impressions, not scale models. Lincoln Tanker has seen my other projects and thought it would be interesting to watch this on being built. This is the begining of a Rolls Royce Silver Ghost armored car, I use 18Ga. cold rolled stee...
This time in the right period! Ford 3 ton tank in 1/72 scale. The 3D printer service was so kind to send ?me two for the price of one. I could not wait and assembled one while Jan Giesbers collected the onther one to cast copies. I was always facinated by this toy tank, wondering where the batteries where fi...
I wonder if any of our friends from NZ have any better pictures and information on this: It is the Arrowtown WW1 Memorial Gun, and the pictures comes from this blog entry by Helen Va...
Hello Folks, This may not apply to any Great War kit, but it has come to my attention that a company called Panzer 72, apparently based in Belarus, has released un-authorized copies of at least two Minitracks kits. Minitrack kits have been released by Pascal Danjou, of the Edition du Barbotin, famed f...
I am making a Mk I Male tank at Gaza and I was wanting to know if Ole-Luk-Oie had a shield that protected the water filler in the rear of the tank. I think all the Mk I tanks had this shield but I am not sure. I would appreciate any help. Thanks
If your close to Lincoln tomorrow there is a freeby entrance to a WWI Living History Weekend. The Friends of the Lincoln Tanks are there with models made in WWI and later, the almost mythical Verlinden 1/15 MarkIV, and a couple of large scale RC tanks, a Whippet display, a Vickers MG, Uniforms and other...
Making a RC model tank in a larger size would be better but modern technology and smaller electronics, 35th scale would be the smallest to build. On the other hand building a larger model say ? scale the you run into weight and power problems etc. To convert a 35th scale Emhar MkIV tank to RC or any other mo...
I am building a Mark 1 Male tank and am the point of starting to look at painting. I am not sure of the colour scheme or camouflage used on the tanks in the field during WW1 especialy at the battle of Flers September 15 1916. Any help or remarks would be helpful
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I am trying to compile what Serbia, Montengro, Romania, and Bulgaria had in its armmenent
I have a good list of planes and ships
but artillery is sorely lacking all I can find is that Bulgaria had german equipment (obviosly)
serbia french and british
but specifically what kind of guns di...
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...
