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...
I asked a while back about Convoy Models (although can't through the thread via the search function) - has anyone had any experience with them? I sent a stamped address envelope off to them a few days back for their pricelist, as I badly want their Albion A10 as i'm certain they're the only people that do...
hello,? i am in a bit of a fix ?, I am trying to get feldgrau.?? now I will have to buy Revell 067, which is good, but I do not want to have to spend yet more money???????so,? can anyone advise me as to how I can mix a green revell with a mid grey one??. I have never mixed my paints before and it has been 30 years sinc...
Interesting book collection on the web http://es.scribd.com/Druid_ian This one Life in a tank...a great read..with pictures http://es.scribd.com/doc/49219598/Life-in-a-Tank
Dear all, please take my apologies if this has been discused before, but I was searching for more than an hour and couldn't find anything. I have attached some pictures from my collection: 1st pidture?shows an AC, captured at the Romanian front. It says it is an russian AC before maintenance. 2nd pict...
Hello Gentleman?I have attached an article on the Mining Operations on the Western FrontI do not take credit for this information, I found it on a Austrian Military Forum, and thought someone may be interested. I do not know who put this information together, but it is rather interesting.All the Bes...
Mail Coach 1908 - 1914 1st part History of public bus services in the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic ? Peter Hoffman ? The first part of the History of the State sedmisvazkov?ch bus contains basic information about histiorii of SAA in Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia. It covers the first tentative s...
I am trying to?find info about my grandfather Pete C. Samarra who served?in??company B of the 301st U.S.T.C. He served in France in 1918 to 1919 and was wounded. He fought in the following battles; Sept 29, Ronssory, Oct 8, Bellicourt, Oct 19, Premont, Oct 24, Brissignyn?. All of this information cam...
British Army uniform colour is described as khaki, which?many people think of as a shade of green, but was actually a shade of brown, like this: I have been trying to find the colour of the British Army Greatcoat, a...
Does anyone know of a source for 1:35 scale?Hotchkiss machine guns, needed for my tank project. Can be plastic, resin, or even brass, dont mind so long as they are good quality. Cheers Ian.
I'm new (since a few weeks) I live in Belgium (Bruges), not far from the "Flanders fields" and for the moment I'm surfing on this great site. I won't post a lot of questions or responses because I'm not sure if my English is good enough for that. Thanks anyway for the the information given by al...
Hello all and special thanks to Hans, for his tremendous help. I have over the last two months managed to acquire my Fine Scale Factory models, I got most of what I was looking for from Andreas Brune the former owner of FSF himself, who now operates under "Imperialmodellbau" of Germany. I wa...
Actually just watched The Red Baron (2008) the historical accuracy?if you can call it that was?appalling, the continuity wasnt much better... In one scene Hawker flys an SE5(should have been a DH2)?that turns into a? Sopwith Camel and then into an RE8 all within a few secounds.... the few combat seq...
any ideas as to what this is exactly would be most welcome. picked up on the Somme, many years ago... dimensions are: 10cm high, 9cm 'base' diameter, 11cm 'top' diameter. there's what looks like a firing pin, in brass, on the 'base', about 1cm diameter. there's a thread on the 'top', before the lip/wid...
