Hello everyone, I have visited this site for years, I'm a WWI modeller and your discussions, post, and comments have been an asset.? By way of an intro, I'm a 53 year old, married father of one son who is a recent Purple Heart recipient after injuries sustained in Afghanistan.? He is my hero and I am very p...
This gun has been moldering away at the Maryborough Army depot since it was allocated to the 47th Btn in 1920/21. Recently the local colonial and military museum is looking at acquiring it from the Australian Army and restoring it (after a bit of prompting by one of my colleagues in the historical gun s...
Hi All, I am looking to build a 1/35 scale model of the armoured rail car as depicted in the photo on page 44 of the Osprey book "German Panzers 1914 - 1918" by Steven Zaloga. I am looking for info, pics, drawings, plans, anything on the guns used on this carriage. They are?described as pedesta...
I've opened this up as the Madsen thread seemed to be drifting this way. So new readersmight want to look at the last few postings to that thread first.
There seems to have been something odd about the way in which the American forces ended up with French machine guns. See the following two quotes from...
I acquired a 2nd hand artillery piece which I cannot find on Plasticsoldierreview. It looks like a Schwerer Minenwerfer in 1/72, with the height being until the waist of a standing man, and the length scaling out to about 1,60 meters. It is very simplified and consists of just two pieces, the carriage...
Hi. I am thankful the friends for the informations and in special the member James Reeve to make the construction of Minerva armoured? car and the conversions of the figures. [IMG]https://i688.photobuck...
I acquired an image of the attached. The local belief is that it is a Krupp gun from WW1. The AWM records say that a 75mm gun serial 362 was allocated to Ingham in 1920 - it's noted as an Austrian gun. Any ideas on the identification? Regards, Charlie
These can be seen on Zvezda's site. Not quite released yet, as far as I can tell: http://zvezda.org.ru/?nav=2&set=8083 As you can see, there is a drummer and a disco dancer and a bellhop as well as the more usual poses such as walking with rifle, standing with rifle, running with rifle, and fiddli...
the caption of this picture says '8e Gea in their trench, Martinpuich 25 august 1916'. I tried to puzzle out the meaning of 'Gea', could not find it. Does anybody know (of course you do!) regards, Kieffer
hi , does anyone know how long individual tank crews kept their tanks for? was it tcommon practice for the tanks to be returned to a commom pool when not used then reissued for action? did tank crews ever get their previous tanks back or did they always get a different one ? what sort of problems did this ca...
Hello all, I'm still researching the MKIV prior to building a replica of the RYDE presentation tank (RE: My earlier posts). In all the books and documents I've seen, the tanks dimensions are quoted in feet and inches, but armour plate thickness always seems to be quoted in milimetres. Does anybody kn...
Dear colleagues, I need help. On last photo of German?Ehrhardt E-V/4 M 1915?on service in Russian White army in 1919 the new weapon. Questions: 1. What for a canon in front? These are 20 mm Becker? Russian sources write that 30 mm an automatic gun... 2. What machine guns? It not German MG 08. I think that...
Finally completed this for the better half - unfortunately the Matador Models fascine isn't available again until July, so decided to make my own - using twigs from the garden cut down to size, tied together with string, coated in glue, then the string removed and chain (from Scalelink) put around an...
Has any one out there some pictures of Track grousers attached to the sides of whippets? I would like to try and put a? grouser rail on the sides of a 1/72 Emhar Whippet. I have seen a couple of very small pictures from a 1/35 resin model . I wonder if someone out there has already attempted this project. Hel...
I have been using the Landships 2 site for a while and I like what everone on the Landships Committee has done to make this the premier W.W. I site. I think you have all done a great job. Thanks for keeping it up. Now if only I could finish something to put on the site. So many ideas and so little time.
Hi! Looking for photos or drawings of italian army truck of WW1 Itala tipo V Itala tipo IX Itala tipo X Itala tipo XI Itala tipo XV Help me please Thanks in advance! ?
"The only alteration was the fixing of an escape hatch to the cupola-roof of most vehicles." Acording to the article on the main site. However, I have been unable to find any picture showing this hatch. Would anyone have any idea where I might find such a picture, or a drawing or something? I...
My grandfather was a gunner with the 85th Heavy Trench Mortar Battery. I would like to see a picture of one of these artillery pieces and its support tractors and wagons, etc.
Hello :) After long assembling of materials , I begin the construction {build}FT17 of my favourite scale :) . As yet I try to build the tower poured off , with chattel manholes .. Perhaps to me it {he, she} will succeed .. Poured off tower is very difficult under construction upssss.:) , I thought that sh...
Does this model: depict the WW1 vintage, French 240 mm Canon de Mle 1893/96? Or is it perhaps a later version? The model is made by Wespe and is, I believe, 1/72 scale.
I having some trouble locating large ammounts of infomation on Great War flamethrowers. Some example of these are the Austro Hungarian M.16, French Schilt, and some German flamethrowers. If you have any info on any Great War Flamethrower then please share. I'll keep looking and give you what I find...
I was wondering what's going on here, it looks if the breech of this gun has been taken apart for transportation? And if, how was that done, bolted, screwed? I guess some hoist and other equipment was needed, must have been heavy. The gentlemen on the picture seem to be Scottish, and Italian. Please com...
