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?
Below is a quote from what H?T said a couple of hours ago. "Release E20" is H?t speak for what they plan to release in the 2nd quarter of 2011. "Stage 5", etc. is? H?T speak for where to within these pre-production and production steps the process has advanced: 01) Research of unif...
Without mentioning any names: I had a conversation with a retailer at the weekend. Pocketbond are indeed the distributors for Pegasus, and they own the moulds of a number of other producers (Imex and a few others). The retailer in question expressed considerable exasperation at Pocketbond's cust...
Thr title refers to the title of a Channel 7 segment about the recently found trove of some 3,000 glass-plate negatives recovered from a French barn and (apparently) featuring many Australian troops.? But also British, Canadian, Indian - and cars, ambulances and motor bikes. But no tanks. Three ga...
Does anyone know how accurate the male and female sponsons are on the MKIV kits in 1:35 scale. I know on the male the rear is at 90 degrees and should be angled, but other than that? I've no idea on the female so be interested to know how that rates. Cheers
Hi to all. My new ''toy'' - tracks [resin] for Emhars Mark and i think for Airfix will be too. Long and short segments,very thin and soft/delicate.Some are deformedandbadlycast.Hopefullythey arewith reserves... But in my opinion it is very good work Peter and things ''must to have'' for all WW I ''t...
Instructions for the Training of the Tank Corps in France - Reprint of pamphlet issued by Headquarters, Tank Corps, December 1, 1917, British Army
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In my searches I've uncovered the one time existance of two more American 'tanks'. The first of these is something called the Hamilton Tank (or the Victoria Tank). The only photo I can find shows this at a 1918 victory parade draped in an enormous stars and stripes that covers most of the detail. It has t...
Most probably old news but just found that?JUWA from Germany?do a 1/16 scale A7V tank (shame they don't do a 1/16th scale British tank as well) not suitable for RC. My question is could it be converted to RC using similar scratch built running gear etc? Has any one had one of these models.
Okay, pardon me if this is a dumb question... I was at Bovingdon last week, looking at their MkVI which had one of what I assumed were the pistol ports open. My 11 year old asked what it was, and I said it was a pistol port from which one might engage the enemy at close range with one's sidearm. "Err&quo...
Hello everybody, I'm a Newbie here and I just want to introduce me. My Name is Michel Van den Berghe and I live with my family in Germany near Aachen. What else could I say,my hobby is Modelling since more than 30 years.By the way, another small passion from me is collecting some good movies. My dedicated...
?hello, I have some nice Ceasar german infantry and looking forward, if I still can , to painting them , I would like to depict a stormtroop attack in early 1918 against two machine gun positions( Hat british heavy weapons set) and I am wondering how to place the figures, i.e do I put grenade throwers at t...
Just found a guy with excellent copies of the original handbooks. The Holt 120 is US$60.00 plus freight. Address: Wayne Austin Email? waustin@q.com. Drawings and photographs make these an excellent modelling reference.
?hello again. I understand that stormtroops wore trousers other than the feldgrau type, corduroy I understand?, what colours were they and was there a variety of colours of legwear worn by the stormtroops?. I already have the Osprey book, but I have developed something of an insatiable appetite (a...
Amongst others, I've just released a new set of decals: German Freikorps 1919. Here's a picture of the scan. Just in case anyone would like to have it, it can be ordered through www.blackliondecals.nl. All the best, Michel.
This is an experiment. Scans of the above. Eleven poses, four of each, plus one officer only. Good for trench raids, with 3 using club/grenade/entrenching tool, plus one with what looks like a kukri and multi grenades. One seems to be walking while reloading. Running figure is better done than most....
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Hello This is my first posting, so I thought I'd start with a question. I have bought Hecker & Goros' Austrian Artillery Officer (1917) and wondered what the sidearm is that he's carrying.? It has a long holster?with what appears to be a magazine pouch attached to the rear. It doesn't affect how I p...
. . . on French Tanks. I have to say that this is, unfortunately, not a triumph. No new photos, which is fair enough, except for one very nice one of the FCM 1A that I hadn't seen before. Some of the chronology seems a bit wobbly, but I shall check that further. He describes the Schneider Crocodile and the Au...
