Hi all, i found these links dedicated to Sir Hiram Maxims Flying Machine, there was a topic a while ago that touched on this it seems that the maxim machine was more succesfull then i had previously believed.... http://www.bondle.co.uk/personal_pages/jon/maxim/ http://www.ctie.monash.edu....
A friend posted this photo on another forum to figure out what type gun and why there is a chain attached to the tube.? The optical illusion thought was ruled out by the owner of the photo; with magnification of the actual photo, the chain indeed comes out of the tube. So, the conundrum is; why a chain in th...
A very large gun that was hidden in plain sight outside the Royal Artillery Museum (Firepower) at the?Woolwich Arsenal has gone astray. I know it has been discussed in this forum previously, but that thread is also now in hiding. I am looking for the 14" or 18" (people can't remember which i...
I wonder if someone out there answer me a couple of questions ?What capacity were the flimsies? Did they use the 5gallon ones like the early WW2? I ask because these are already available at Milcast models. has anybody tried these? Looking at their site they have a model of a Whipett. The photographs lo...
Greetings, I was wondering if the Renault in this photograph was British operated or is it a French (or perhaps American) operated tank about which British soldiers are milling? The registration number appears to be 1165?. John A-G
I visited the North Head Artillery Museum in Sydney today. Will post some more pics subsequently but thought I'd put these shots of a rare Turkish mountain gun up for starters. It is supposed to be one of eight that were captured by the Anzacs.
Hello all, my name is John, i come from Greece, nice to meet yoy, before i say anything i want to tell you, my English are not so good, so if i make too much wrong's forget me Well as i say i come from Greece, i am a lover of the ww1 history and excavator, my grounds places and all around on my home was battlefield...
If PDA will excuse me, Hannants now have the Pegasus French WWI & WWII in stock, and it seems most of the Emhar 1/72 range - vehicles and figures - has been re-released, with the exception of the Whippet. http://www.hannants.co.uk/newarrivals/
There are a fair number of Turkish 75mm Krupp M03 guns in Australia. Many of them seem to be from the earliest (1905) and largest (462 guns) order. The attached is from a gun at Red Cliffs, Victoria - the build date translates as 1911. I haven't seen a Turkish 75mm with a cipher on the barrel - anyone know wh...
See these previews - unbelievable detail on 1/72 machine guns, they must be beyond fiddly. http://www.internetmodeler.com/artman/publish/aviation/Mini-World-1-72-Mach...
Baikonur (Houston as well, but I think they can't help me), I have a problem... I just found a photo which could help me finding some answers about armoured cars in Finland. The photo shows Fiat, captured by the whites in Vyborg. This photo is supposedly taken in Vyborg in May 1918. There is a whole novel...
Hello, I need a little help as I can't find my old flamesofwar book with the section on model base making or a decent internet article on how to make them, and I'd like to know how so I can get something under bertha so she's easier to handle, and much more atractive to photograph. Any assistance is greatly...
I have no idea if I am posting this in the right group but here it goes. I am planing on doing a Renault FT of the Spanish army during the Rif Wars. There is a picture of FTs loaded on flat bed trucks with a hood(bonnet) that is shaped like a Mack AC but it is not a Mack. Does anyone have any ideas of what trucks the...
I have recently picked up a sight-mount that I at first thought was for the 10,5cm lFH 1916. However, the drum has only one column, where as, the 10,5cm lFH 1916, 10,5cm lFH 1898/09 and the 7,7cm lFK 1916 all have many bag charges and therefor many columns on their range drums.? The only one that seems to b...
Hello there, my name is Bernd and i?m from Germany. Could anybody tell me which colour the canvas covers of german trucks had in ww1? I suggest and medium / light grey or ochre, but i?m not sure. It?s hard to find out on the black/white pictures. The only coloured pics i?ve seen are from museums and?i?m no...
?hello, i know this question is asked? alot, but i can not get a handle on "feldgrau", the colour of the German army 1915 bluse.? Is it grey, light/dark ?, or grey-green?. I am hoping to do some 1/72 scale after a period of 30 years!!, I am now 53 and i want to get it right as I want to make dioramas w...
An acquaintance is restoring an Austro-Hungarian 37mm Infanteriegesch?tz M.15 that is missing its breech block.? Is there any chance someone on the forum has a technical drawing of this breech block?? ...or perhaps knows of?an archive that might have it.? Skoda and the Austrian Army Museum have a...
Came across this a little while ago.... can't find any information on it. ?I looked around on the forums but didn't see anything that matches.? What is it? ?Does a model of it exist? KONNOC Link:http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?163564-WW1-photos-from-Austro-Hungaria...
Greetings,Attached are copies of an image I recently acquired. The period ink inscription on the back says "Fiat armored car." I have been looking at it and whereas I see many similarities to Fiat amored cars, I also recognize Renault traits. Can anyyone confirm what type of AC is picture...
Stumbled across this: http://beninois.free.fr/archer.php A most interesting chap. IIRC he complained bitterly after the War that his armoured car was far superior to the Tanks that were employed and that the conflict would have been over much sooner if his vehicle had been used instead.
Hello, fellows, I am new here and collect photos of Lithuanian army 1918- 1940. During the war of Independence 1918-1922 and after Lithuanian army had several armoured cars. One of them has been taken as a war trophy from bolsheviks (Fiat Izhorskyi), and other??4 received from Germans. Usually the...
