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...
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...
