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...
Not the East German one of course, but the one that formed as a result of the Imperial German Navy's post WW1 mutiny.? All the information I could find was in my Osprey book on the German Freikorps, and it indicated that the Communist revolutionaries, though many in number, were a poor military force ov...
I am trying to find detailed drawings of this American tractor, can anyone help or suggest a possible source? The intention is to build a 1/32 scale model with either the 60lb BL MK 1 gun or the 8inch MK 5 Howitzer. Any help would be most appreciated.
Hello, I am looking for information, photos and plans of the Ford Model T based armoured cars used by the British RNAS in Russia.? I've seen the excellant photos posted by Ivan on this forum (here) as well as the BBC web page (here).? I've also seen the write-up and plans on the landships site (here, here...
I am looking for information on Fiat 1/2 ton trucks used in Russia during WW I. This is the sort of vehical that was used to transport the bodies of Tsar Nicholas II and family after they were murdered by the cheka (Soviet secret police) to the burial sites. I understand the bed was 6 ft by 10 ft. Photos, pla...
Currently reading 'Steel Chariots in the desert' by SC Rolls, a Rolls Royce amoured car driver with the Duke of Westminster's Squadron, and he mentions Fiats, originally designed for mountain work, used by Italian troops in the desert alongside the British against the Senussites. Does anyone kno...
Anyone know of a reference for when and how the M1917 was phased out? I know about the ones sold to Canada, but that leaves hundreds unaccounted for. Treat 'Em Rough isn't very specific. The U.S. Tank Corps was slashed immediately after the War, and cut to the bone in 1920 - 154 officers and 2,500 other ra...
archive.org has the following books by Stanley Wasburn a newsman from the times who covered the war on the Eastern Front in WW I. note: they are somewhat sugarcoated the Russian Army fighting bravely ect: but the first 3 do contain a number of pics: "Field notes from the Russian Front 1914-15&qu...
Has anyone else noticed an error on Landships 2 (carried over, I think, from landships 1)?? I'm referring to the tank projects 1917-19 page, where under Medium MkB male, we have an illustration (kindly drawn by Centurion) of a Medium MkC male.? Does anyone have any idea for sure what the Mk B male would...
Hi, been a while since I've posted here... - two countries later, one toddler?son, several jobs and a whole lot of other stuff later,... I'm getting back into WWI by way of my growing Blandford collection. I've always loved the U-wagen/G-wagen and am pleased to see so many good photographs of it [and t...
http://www.hansasystemsusa.com/ They have a lot of street and building components in plastic, and I've had good service from them.? No, I'm not connected to them except as a customer.
Is anything known on its organization? I'm particularly interested in whenever they used light machine guns, rifle grenades and if they had a speparate hand bomb section.
As I said on a post elsewhere, I'm hoovering up Blandford 1st editions of all the old Military titles at the moment and am doing VERY well on getting 40yr old books in absolutely spanking condition... that is with the exception of the above title : ( I'm finding a lot of US Macmillan examples but all the pr...
Hello, On a Dutch WW1 forum (www.forumeerstewereldoorlog.nl )?I found the picture below. Members of the forum think ist is a (pre) WW1 canon used to clean "nomansland" from barbed wire (make paths). Way to do was to shoot the hook direction of the barbed wire and then?pull away (by men??)...
I was reading about the organization of the american expeditionary forces and they have these crazy sections with 12 man for hand bomb section, 9 men for rifle grenadier section, 17 men for rifle section and 15 men for auto-rifle section. Does anyone how they were used in practice? -- Edited by Morgot...
I may have got this all wrong, but I have heard from a couple of sources now and found on a German site on the web that it was announced at Nuremburg that Emhar are due to release their Mark V and Tadpole in 1/72 this year. Has anyone else heard about this? Emhar haven't been doing much of late so it would be ver...
