I'm doing a tidy up of the FK 96 articles on Landships II. It strikes me that what is needed is an article on the derivatives of the 7.7cm FK 96 n.A. As far as I know the following were derived from the FK 96 n.A 7.7cm Nahrkampfkanone - modified gun shield and smaller diameter wheels 7.7cm KiH - Kanone im Hau...
Hello all, this is the Takom kit of the Skoda 30.5 cm M16 mortar. The kit is not very faithful to the original (to put it politely), so I had to do many corrections. I just wanted to add some crew, but WW1 artillery crews are as rare as hen's teeth, so I had to find a viable alternative. I found out that Trumpet...
Greetings! Here is my Mark.IV female from Takom in progress. Nice kit, but I ususally work hard with every detail. So, I have added some new details and some details were replaced. I have used plastic, copper,brass and wire for chains. App. 60% completed. I hope my modest work will be usefull and inter...
It has long been accepted that 109 or so FTs were taken to the USA after the war. In the past, I've long been suspicious of that claim, on the grounds that production of the M1917, with its improvements over the FT, was beginning to take off, so there was no need for used and inferior FTs. Steve Zaloga told m...
I stumbled across some videos that show the Canadian War Museum restoring their Autocar to running order and then putting it in a parade. Posted on Landships FB yesterday. [vide...
PDA asked what people got for Christmas. Well, this was for my birthday, last June, but it arrived, after a much Covid-interrupted journey from Australia, this week. Yes, that's right, this week. Many thanks to the Queensland Museum for overcoming numerous difficulties, and to the memsahib for he...
The Model Cellar would like to announce our new WWI Italian Officers.Sculpted by Mike Good, the detail is clean, crisp, and sharp as usual. These figures are the perfect accessories for the new WWI Lancia Ansaldo Italian Armored car IZM from Copper State models. They will also work well with the WWI I...
Abschrift zu Nr : 2154/18g. A7V.Reichstagsmaterial.23. Okt. 1918T.D.Betr: Kampfwagen (Tank)---- Der Abgeordnete Stresemann* hat gestern erklärt, daß die Heeresverwaltung der "Tankwaffe" nicht die Bedeutung zuerkannt habe, die ihr nach den heutigen Erfahrungen zukomme. Derartige...
This is something that has been mentioned here in reviews and builds but I thought that I would make a separate post about it:There is a fault in the instructions. Part #11 is shown wrong. It should me mounted from the front not from the inside.This was wrong from the beginning and has not been correct...
A German officer described the British tank as a “a gigantic, iron dragon” so I thought that was a good name for the title. Takom’ Mark IV Female ‘Flirt II’ is being stalked by two stormtroopers with grenades being tossed on the roof. I’ve been reading ‘Deborah and the war of the tanks 1917’ by John Taylo...
nnHallo, ich habe eine Frage zu diesem Foto des Transportwagens des 42 cm Skoda Mörtels für den Verkehr Eisenbahn. Das ist er nur Foto, ich habe je gesehen. Sie noch jemanden, der wagen noch kennt ?
Came across a bit more about this: From Motor Boating magazine, July 1912: "Norman Leeds, treasurer and general manager of the Automatic Machine Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut, is making an extended trip through Europe in the interests of Automatic marine engines. Mr. Leeds will visit the co...
Hi everyone Just getting back to working on plans of a MK1 Male Tank and thought it was time I should introduce myself and let you know what I am up too. About 4 years ago now I decided I would build a 1/16 scale MK1 tank and looked around for plans ... what I found were ok but at the scale I was thinking a bit basi...
Hello everyone, I am new here. I usually do Gundam kits and such so i am out ny league in this stuff. I recently found a sealed Roseplane Drachen and after some research i have found nothing about the value of it. I intend to sell it but i dont know what a fair value would be. I appreciate any help thank you.
I came across this on Pinterest this morning, I am very interested in the construction of the early tanks and this shows a lot of information, but the resolution is very poor. The site linked to the image is a domain hosting service, no images there - does anyone have a higher resolution copy of the image...
Can anyone provide me with the format used by the British for identifying the area in which a vehicle is assigned? For example, LC stood for Egypt or the Middle East, so a Model-T Ford might have the number LC^1234 where the "^" designates the government broad arrow. Am also looking for a source for 1:...
Hello. I have a fancy to write a series of short articles on who could have invented the tank, so far I have done Leonardo da Vinci and H G Wells. I know of the Mendeleev tank, Vezdekhod (vezdepod whatever !!!), Tsar tank, Rybinsk 20 ton tank etc, but I know that Blinov came up with a tracked tractor in the la...
I converted the 1920 model from Roden into a 1914 car. New wheels and front fenders. Lowered turret among other things. More about it and the other two cars here: Rolls Royce-- Edited by Orso on Sunday 3rd of January 2021 03:05:44 AM-- Edited by Orso on Sunday 3rd of January 2021 03:11:45 AM
I've been looking at some of the old guns that France used in the early part of WW1 mostly out of desperation. About 1916 there seems to have been an assessment of the old guns and at least a couple had upgrades so they remained at least somewhat useful. Anyone know if this was a deliberate policy by the Fr...
Most of these, if not all, are in the wrong scale, i.e. they are not 1/72/6, but they are free. If you don't have a 3D printer, there are quite a few people who will print them for you. I would use a resin printer for these rather than a FDM type so that you don't get a bunch of annoying lines. Large collection o...
Does anybody here still make models? I do, but I work at a glacial pace. I just treated myself to this; it should be here in about two months! I had to buy it for myself because there's just no way anybody in my small family would know where to get this. What did Santa bring you?
Hello, I just noticed that the Digital State Library of Upper Austria has Ernst Volkheim's full book Deutsche Kampfwagen greifen an! Erlebnisse eines Kampfwagenführers an der Westfront 1918 available to read online (assuming you read German). According to Wikipedia, this is the re-titled 193...
This is a still from a film about Berlin in 1945. Similar to Jacques de Prévaux's airship flight along the Western Front in 1919, someone flew over Berlin to show the damage sustained by the city. Just as the aircraft flies over the burnt-out cathedral you can see down into the Lustgarten. I think the ob...
From: I’d bought the Haynes Great War Workshop manual on the Mark IV tank a while back and saw that they also have a title Great War Workshop manual ‘all types 1915-1945’. Not sure why the second title goes beyond 1918. I’d order the ‘all types’ book and today I received the Mark IV book. I checked the I...
