Dear all, I just received another postcard for my collection. As it is a very curious picture of a tank, I would like to share it with you. It is a tank made out of soap. An eye catcher on a booth of a company named Berolina. Hope you like it. Cheers Chris
You may remember an earlier thread about the 15cm Belgian howitzer. Latest news on the Pozieres gun at Enoggera is that it will be moved early in 2011 complete with the concrete slab it's partly embedded in. Meanwhile the 9th Btn Assoc. is examining options to release the gun from the slab and conserve...
Have managed to make up a Lanchester. There will be some changes as I am not 100% happy. But at laest it will be out this year. Any comments (apart from the bad photographs !!)
Hello I'm currently building Emhar's Mk IV male tank. I try to scratch build the unditching rails. I have got good reference material concerning the front and the aft attachment points. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find informations (photographs, drawings) how the roof mountings were attached...
Has anybody else seen this? (Attached) Says, "Coming soon" on the web site - Tank Models, the site run by our friend skala72. http://www.tankmodels.pl/
In the last week, several artillery pieces and anti-tank guns from my collection were recorded by Skywalker Sound firing live and blank.These sounds will be used for a new Spielberg film.I have been asked not to mention the name of the film until it comes out, however, I can say it is set in the WW1 Era an...
Hello, I just stumbled across this photo on the web and thought I'd share it.? The tank is a little outside of the normal period on which we focus, but I thought the image would appeal to many of us.? - Enjoy! What does one do after a hard day of Blitzing across Europe in your tank? ? Why, build model tanks, of...
I am trying to find any reference to Kaiser Wilhelm's staffwagen. He supposedly visited the front lines in a number of converted vehicles including a Mercedes truck purpose built with steps, a stove, an awning, a bed. Has anyone heard of this vehicle or seen a photo? or drawing of it? Terry
Just thought I would pass this on. I am ordering sets of German figures. They will be of late War style. As usual they will be "relaxes"poses ie no action figures like all of my figure sets. I was thinking along the lines of gunners, tankers,infantry walking in full kit and a set of just "...
Slightly remembered this series and by searching at Youtube found the episode "Tanks" with a running Mark IV "Excellent" (Bovington?) crewed by reenactors and other interview snippets with WWI british tankers. Soldiers - A History of Men in Battle - TANKS starting arround...
Photos from a Great War Society event last year working with original War Department Light Railway equipment - the UK adopted light railways for moving supplies, troops and even artillery pieces after seeing how successful the French Decauville systems were. The setting of the event was the Battl...
Hello, my first posting here. Does anyone know of any decent drawings or plans of the German 42cm Dicke Bertha that could be used to build a 1/16 model? Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you, Tony
Attached is a photo (with a two details) of a destroyed Peugot armored car. Photographer's inscription at base of photo is written in German and simply identifies it as a 'destroyed French armored car'.? John
Found this photograph online on the Mary Evans storehouse website, showing a Rolls Royce armoured car at Arras. It's interesting in that not only does it show the towed 3 pounder, which i've never seen on a photograph outside of the UK, but also it shows an RR at Arras, in the dazzle paint like the other,...
Amongst the wealth of stuff on Criticalpast is this film of Schneiders and French infantry putting on a display for the benefit of a large assembly of U.S. troops. After 1'30" there is a splendid sequence showing very clearly the signal panel on the roof of the Schneider that Michel recently bro...
Why were some British vehicles marked with OHMS as opposed WD. I have seen it on Autocars, Seabrooks and Foster Daimlers. The only thing I can think of is that they were owned by a different government Department than the War Department. Any thoughts anybody please? Tim
Hello all! I have been looking through this forum with a lot of interest, it's a wealth of information! I am trying to enhance my Mark IV tank model and I am counting rivets, so to speak... One part of the tank is a mystery to me, that being the narrow strips left and right between the tracks and the drivers c...
Hi all. I painted the tracks with Tamiya Gun metal. I also applied another coat of Tamiya Brown and I finished it by lining the colors with a Sharpie Fine Point permanent marker to represent the black demarcation lines of the real tank. I need to paint the markings on and weather the whole model so I still...
I'm having a go at correcting and/or fleshing out some of the captions and descriptions on Criticalpast.com. This is clearly a feature film, but it doesn't immediately spring to mind. The tanks aren't FTs but M1917s, so I expect it's an American production. Sorry if it's an old favourite, but I can't...
