According to John Milsom in Russian Tanks 1900-1970, Mendeleev's first Tank project (the 170-ton machine with 120mm gun)? was designed between 1911 and 1915. It had a pneumatic suspension system and caterpillar tracks of some kind. The question is: how did he come to know about caterpillar tracks...
Hello fellow comrades, I'm very interested in WW1 AFV interiors, cross-section and construction-plans. Since?such material is?hard to find, I'm starting this topic to collect what is availible from?all you?enthusiasts around here. May be some of you share this special intrest. I (again) crea...
Hi there, just wanted to let you all know there is a set of Lewis guns availible since 2 weeks. It's a set of 4 machine guns with spare parts and the manufacturer is Resicast. These guns are much better then the Emhar and can used in the Emhar tanks. Finally good Lewis guns.......... Check the resicast sit...
This remarkable site covers the development of the machine-gun before the War. There is new (to me) info about familiar models and there are details of some that I haven't come across before; the Nordenfelt, de Knight, Perino, and Skoda, for example. There's a lot on the Madsen, and it seems to solve t...
Can any one shed further light on the following? I found the following mini biography of a Canadian VC winner.
"Cy Peck has a history that includes the military and politics. In the military, Cy Peck was a Victoria Cross winner for action at the battle of Arras in 1918, in which he fought through exten...
Most paint instructions of model kits 'prescribe' the colors of rifle barrels as 'gun metal'. Which is for most model brands a dark grey metal color. That bothers me, after seeing a French ww1 carbine that was definitely browned, (a dark brown-red color) and reaching the point that I have to decide on...
http://www.strelets-r.com/SetsR/Set114/Sprue.html http://www.strelets-r.com/SetsR/Set114/Figure.html http://www.strelets-r.com/SetsR/Set075/Sprue.html http://www.strelets-r.com/SetsR/Set075/Figure.html Yes that's two sets of them.
?Things are still?happening at the Museum. "The 36 tanks that currently occupy the Tank Story Hall will be the basis of the online collection, with each vehicle having a computer generated model acting as a link to a wealth of information." That includes most of our favourite tanks! Read...
This is mr. Rene Magritte, the famous Belgian painter. Post ww1, probably 1921. He served in the 8e Linie but was not much a soldier-like type. He was lucky, his commanding officers allowed him to paint and even commisioned him to paint their portraits. He avoided duty often pretending he had to see hi...
The subject of the Fried. Krupp 10,5cm. l.F.H. Kp. 1916 has come up from time to time on this forum.This piece was produced in very limited numbers and few examples exist today.One example was at the Fort Jackson Museum in storage where very few people got a chance to see it.About ten years ago this piec...
Have just been having a ponder over Estienne's original idea and his amendments to Lt. Thibier's drawing of the Holt track assembly (Fig. 1). Don't know anything about Thibier, but he seems to have been a draughtsman, whereas E clearly wasn't. This might be very old news, but it suddenly struck me tha...
Hello all. After years of procrastiantion, I've fnally decided to attempt to collect and collate as many of the names and numbers of the Mk1's as I can. I'm obviously using Trevor Pidgeon's "Tanks at Flers" as my main guide and so far so good. I've basically scanned through the book and I wil...
I have been working on a spreadsheet that shows every available WWI figure (braille scale), whether metal, resin or plastic. It started as an inventory of the figures I have, but then I added a 'wish list' section and so it has evolved into a list of everything 'out there'. or at least, all those that I kn...
Many of you will know that most of the? armour collection at Fort Knox is being shipped to Fort Benning, Georgia where it won't be on public display. On one of the other forums I look at I saw a note from one of the staff at the Carlisle Barracks, PA? -the 6-ton tank is going to the Army Heritage and Education...
Hi there , got a few photo-etch sets for sale. There are 3 sets for the Mark IV and 1 for the Whippet. Got also 3 cribs . All sets are brand new and unused. The costs for each set is 12 euro excl. shipping. Will ship worldwide. Max
Hi All I was wondering if the?wealth?of knowledge that everyone shows here would be able to help me with something? I was wondering if anyone would have any images of British Mk I to V tanks on trains/carriages? ?I've been searching quite a few sites etc. but seem to fall flat on images of these. At this p...
On the Forum in 2008 there were a series of articles on the above narrow gauge diesel in 1:35 scale by Claus Nielson. I was hoping someone could help me contacting him. The reason is the Japanese firm of Kato have brought out a tram loco in N gauge,the motorised bogies would be ideal for a kit of the locotra...
I don't know if we've had this before, but I've come across a reference to a tank simply described as "Schneider". Weight 141 tons, L40ftxW10'9"xH9'8", 3 x 75mm guns, 9 x mgs, three turrest, Crew 28. Produced by Schneider, total production 1, date not stated. Sounds like the K-...
First pic is drawing of the Delaunay-Belleville 2.5 ton proposal of 1916. Second is of the D-B project that was finally abandoned in the 1920s. The latter seems to be very different and has clearly borrowed from Renault in several respects. Are these the same tank?
Thanks to Black Lion the decals for Sir Reginald are being worked on so I have no excuse to not finish the Emhar kit. Humm..... I didn't think about that!
