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...
This page - on the Landships website - is excellent!? Concise, useful and informative.? Great photos, too, that show you what you need to know. Well done.
Hello again, the second diorama, I want to present is a work from the year 2005. The scene plays in the time of the horrible fights of the year 1917 at the western front. A german Pilot flys with his Albatros over the battlefields and take an Eye - deep in the hell!!!! As you can see,I put many,many things in...
There have been several discussions questioning the poses of plastic figure MG poses, concluding most of the poses are wrong. It is hard to find a British Vickers gunner sitting behind his gun (http://www.vickersmachinegun.org.uk/ links to some original manuals in pdf format), or a Russian Maxi...
Came across a repeat of an episode of Who Do You Think You Are? the other night. The subject was the Olympic Gold Medallist Matthew Pinsent. It seems his great-uncle was involved in the Tank attack on the Somme and committed suicide. His name was George McPherson. Anyone have any info? http://www.bbc...
Hello Guys, I want to give you an impresion of one of my first steps into the years of the Great War.This Dio is a very old work with converted figures of French Infantry from Airfix,a St.Chamond built out of the box from FSF, a little changed 25 pdr cannon from ESCI with ammo trailer to simulate WWI artill...
In the David Fletcher Osprey book on the Mark I tank, there is?a photograph of the rear of a Mark I tank showing an armoured cover over the area where the (removed) hydraulics would be for the steering gear. Does anyone know whether this was a standard fitment to Mark Is when fitted with steering gear or u...
TANK NOTES. Use? of Tanks? in Germany. (From French? Military Advisory? Mission Bulletin). The? Germans? are? said? to have? stopped? the? tanks? at Cambrai? in the? following? way:? The? rifle? and? artillery? fire? compelled? the? in fantry? waves? to remain? in place;? the? advancing? tanks...
I found two interesting old books translated from Russian in our local library yesterday: "Tanks"(Chinese version published in 1956) and "Tanks: A Brief History of the Developement of Armored Tanks"(Chinese version published in 1958). Both of them have a whole chapter de...
Claude Choules is celebrating his 110th birthday with family and friends in Perth on Thursday. He's the last known male survivor of more than 70 million military personnel during WWI, after American veteran Frank Buckles passed away on Sunday also aged 110. The only other surviving WWI vet...
Hello Everyone, can anybody help me find some photos, illustrations etc of the first tank crews uniforms worn at Flers. Am working on a new painting and would like to put ?some tank crew in. Its good old C company again in what may be Chimpanzee Valley but I read ,opinions differ on the subject. Any thoug...
?hello,? can anyone instruct me as to how to cut a mitre for trims? to go around the bases of dioramas?,? if possible with drawings ? it is not the cutting of the mitre which bothers me , but how do you measure the wood to the right lentgh to begin with. much appreciated.?? crh?
