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...
Towards the end of the conflict the Australian Corps are recorded as receiving a number of Garford Box Cars. Does any member have or know of an image of this vehicle? Regards....Rod
In the absence of scaled drawings of many of the vehicles and much of the equipment we would like to see in model form, does anyone know of a suitable 3D drawings system which would enable me to extract information from photographs? Many potential subjects such as transport and armour were photograph...
I'm?looking for suitable?tanks to model, from A?Company of the Heavy Section Machine Gun Corps, or whatever they were called by the time A Company saw action. And there's the big gap in my knowledge! I don't know much about A and B Companies, for example, I don't know when they first saw action, or wher...
