Hi I'm looking for information on this Traveling Platform for a scale project, but pictures and info seem to be nonexistent, this picture came from a WikipediA site and since I found it and started looking for more info I've had no luck. It's described as a 12 pounder 12 cwt anti-aircraft gun converted...
Just recently the picture below was sold on ebay and I was the lucky winner. I have never seen before a French de Dion Bouton auto-canon in German service. So, I wonder when and where this piece fell into German hands! Is there anybody out there aware of a similar photograph or any detail which could help...
I have a picture of a Mk I towing a flat bed wagon full of supplies. I would Like to know where or if the Mk I had tow shackles. Thanks for any help you can give me.
First A.C. from Poland build on the base Ford T FTB - FORD TANSKIEGO BOJOWY/Tanski Fightning Ford Armour is maked from Germans Trench Plates. ? Very qiuck build with ''little'' help photoetch. [IMG]https:/...
Hi all In 1995 Leo Cooper published Peter Oldham's book "Pill Boxes on the Western Front". Soon this book was sold out. The well written book contains a lot of interesting informations about British and German Great War Pill Boxes. There are many photographs, drawings, scetches and seve...
This is my fifth Austin (fourth by Modelkrak) and I just can't get enough of them.? I used Black Lion Decals for the markings. In retrospect, I wish I had put the decals on the doors instead of the turrets. They look a little small where they are now.? Figure is by TQD and yes, I know the collar is wrong for WW...
The Mk I tank I am building has square tensioner ends and not rounded. I took 1/8 inch Evergreen tubing, drilled the hole to match the tensioner width and sliced it off. I cut the piece in half and placed it on the tensioner after removing the end by scraping it off with a knife. It is not perfect but it is bet...
I was inspired by Plastikk to do my version on the Mk I after seeing his excellent rendition of the Airfix kit. This is just the basic corrections to the kit and I have yet to start the detailing of it. I added .060 plastic to the sides of the cab and lenghtened the front .030. I removed all the detail and will...
This is very much a wargaming oriented question, so please bear with me. Which troops wore naval uniforms in actual land combat during WW1, and which 1/72-1/76 miniatures could represent them? I am aware of the British Naval Division and the German Flandernmatrosen, but have doubts how much naval g...
Hello Gents! ? Work began at last on my A7V Trencher. I have the chasiss ready, and tracks at proper length, (I started with the MGM Uberlandwagen as a conversion base) Anyways before I get to the meat of the subject, building the superstructure, I need to know the mesurements of the cab and dirt conveyo...
Hallo, Found this site concerning the battlefields in Belgium during WW1 (all txt in Dutch): http://www.wfa-belgie.be/index.htm? go to subitems "Tijdschrift Shrapnel" (articles in Dutch?from the last years)?or "Links" (different languages)?for more information....
Dear all, I am wondering if anyone has some information regarding tank or AC officers in Freikorps service. Does anyone have some information about?an officer namend "Lindemann"? Maybe he served in a tank or AC unit in after war riots. Maybe he joined KoKampf? Thank you in advance! ? Rega...
Hello all, This is my first large scale figure painting, I've done at least 50 + of these little buggers, and finished them (Mostly) tonight. I've still got to ad bayonets, rifle details, scaboards, & cockades etc. What do you guys think so far? ? I've got much more to go, a Korps requires Artillery...
Hi all, ??????? seeking info & photos of WW1 trenching machines etc. Have 1 photo of a German?Vollmer? rotary trench-digger & a French tunnel digger. Also have several of various French barbed-wire crushers (most from this site). Any others out there ?? (google find nothing). thanks, Ray...
Finally had a load of photographs developed from my?1917 camera, and this is one of them - i'll post more up later 1916 Matchless motorcycle and sidecar combination, fitted with a Vickers .303 machine gun, as used b...
Been having a trawl round CriticalPast.com Caterpillar tractors pull railroad flatcars loaded with 42-cm guns. Not railway cars at all; look like captured German guns on their carriages. Clearly in France, but not clear if before Armistice or clearing up afterwards Nice shot of Holt machine in US...
