In the light of the discovery that the Steam Wheel Tank was the wrong way round, should we now consider the possibility that the Treffas Wagen also had its driving wheels at the rear and was steered by the small roller, or is it beyond doubt that the big wheels were at the front?
In Firrearms News May 2021 issue there is an article by Paul Scarlata "Small Arms of the Freikorps" which contains a number of pictures of armored vehicles used by the Freikorps
Tanks Encyclopedia has some outstanding content - wonderful artwork, wide range of vehicles described in impressive detail, some of them delightfully obscure. However, if I might make an observation (and I hope Leander and the other contributors will take this in the spirit in which it is intende...
There seems to be a bird of prey resting on the gun, a mascotte ?( stuffed) The 280 TR mortar was studied in 1909 by the Schneider Company at the request of the Russian government for an 11-inch siege mortar. In 1912, the first prototype of this 11-inch (279mm) mortar was tested at Otchakoff agains...
There seem to have been two types of Clayton & Shuttleworth tracked tractors used in WW1. One that looks very much like a Holt 45 tractor and another with the general configuration of the Holt 75 (aka Holt 15-ton). I haven't been able to find out any details about these tractors, their use or specif...
I'm working on a fairly large scale model in Meccano and am using the 1/35th scale model by Meng as a very useful reference. I'm currently trying to understand how the levers and rodding work on the brakes - in particular on the nearside where you seem to have two separate inkages acting on the same brake...
Came across this on Tank Encyclopedia and their Dutch source here. Caption translates as: "Image with which the German technician Goebel, who invented the tank in 1915, wanted to promote his invention (which was not taken seriously by the German army command)".I don't know how Herr Goebel used the...
Thanks for letting me onto this forum. In recent weeks I've finally got round to work on a large scale model of the Mk V tank in Meccano. I've just about completed a representation of the 6 cylinder Ricardo engine and some of the front section of main frame. Proving very useful for reference is the 1/35th...
Hi gents anyone recognise the plans in this photo, iam guessing they are by Ken Musgrove looking at the part name showing, found the pic on a scratchbuilding blog sute which is no more and cant track down the blogger think the fellas name is Col but thats all i know. Anyway its a copy of those plans i was aft...
Once again running the risk of embarrassing myself. This might be well-known, but I don't recall seeing it before. A Whippet surrounded by what look like Austro-Hungarian troops, with maybe a sprinkling of Germans. How could that have come about? The tank is clearly labelled A249. I came across it o...
Good morning I am making a video on the Renault FT, so I have a question: Since I do know that it was exported a lot, does anyone wants to help me "track" all the various export models and export variants? So basically to find: - How many nations received FTs - How many tanks were exported to every nation - H...
Some photos of a diorama I built.It’s supposed to be a 9.2” howitzer being taken to the front, hauled by a Holt tractor, somewhere in France on a very soggy day. Scale is 1/35, Roden Holt, howitzer a very well travelled Resicast model....made in Belgium, purchased in Australia, built in the Uk. The dio...
Hello everyone I wanted to expand my books/pdfs collection. Does anyone have any good free-to-read book to recommend? Possibly, in the following languages: English French Italian German Spanish And possibly on modern military subjects. Yes, not only WW1, but basically from the late 1800's to...
I found a wooden mockup of the Mark X tank so I want to contact the moderators but there aren't any emails that work. If any of you know one of the mod's email then please reply. Image in question:
seems like there may still be some remains of the Lancaster presentation tank still in existance . it was removed at the start of ww2 but seems to have been used as a grenade training target by the home guard. after the home guard had finished with it it seems to have been buried at the entrance to what is no...
Is there a picture of the right side of the truck? I was wondering if the gun ports in the sides would have been staggered between the left and right side. I think that having them placed the same would interfere with the corresponding gun port on the other side.Another thing that came to mind is the inter...
I have been trying, on and off, to make a Tank Mark V in 1/72. When I saw Wayne McCullough's card model, years ago, I had the idea of printing it on to Tamiya's Pla-Paper and then somehow (with skills I don't possess) making it into a 'proper' model. But then 3D printing was invented, and my local library go...
Looking for information on the Italian Artillery mounted on a Lancia truck. I have seen a picture somewhere (can't seem to find it) and a miniatures company makes a model (GRF in 15mm). Especially interested in the organization of the unit(s) and what action they saw. Thanks, Chris
How did things get transported? Mostly by horse and carriage? Even in WW2, horses and carriages were used quite a lot by the Wehrmacht. Also, it seems that very few Uberlandwagens were even constructed by the German after all.
Looking for some help with the Copper State Model of the Canadian Armoured Autocar. In the driver's compartment there are two liquid containers: the large one will be the fuel - petrol. The question is does anyone know what the smaller container may hold? It could be oil or maybe it could be the acety...
