I want to build the 1/72 Roden kit as a 1914 model. Most of the wheels are ready as it was a condition before I start converting any plastic of the kit.As I understand it the turret of the 1914 car was lower than the 1920 version in the kit. Looking at pictures the roof look the same so would removing equal par...
On the old Landship site there were some useful stuff that I downloaded. Among this was the Guide to the A7V variants by Gary Zimmer. Last night I was using this trying to identify a tank in a picture. I noticed that it had the Type C Machine Gun Aperture so I looked in the list and found five tanks that had th...
The A7V “Nixe II” and others A7Vs were camouflaged in the spring of 1918 with spots color Rotbraun and Lehmgelb painted over the Feldgrau coating. In these pictures (taken after its capture) it seems the command cupola is not camouflaged. Can anyone tell me if the roof (and the cupola) was camouflage...
Maybe news to some of you: http://mickbellplans.com/ There are literally hundreds of plans, including some WW1 and interwar stuff (little armour though) from Minerva a/c and Ehrhardt 1917 to Schneider howitzer. "The late Mick Bell produced over 400 high quality technical drawings and plans of m...
Have been doing some research on the US artillery tractors produced in 1918 and afterwards. 1. The 5- and 10-ton artillery tractors had armoured covers for the engine, oil tank and one of the petrol tanks but I haven't been able to find how thick the armour plate was - anyone know? 2. The Holt civilian H...
This gets many mentions on the Kansas City Museum website, and there are lots of photos of tanks under repair. Recloses is south by southeast of Paris. I'd never heard of it before. Does anyone know anything about it?
Some images of camouflaged 5-ton Tractors. The one with the roof was likely taken at Aberdeen in 1918. The other two are noted as being taken in France in early 1919. Opinions on the colours used in the camouflage schemes? Artillery camouflage for AEF field artillery was specified as green | cream | w...
1/35 diorama I recently finished using Model Cellar figures, Vargas Models 25cm schwere Minenwerfer and log wall castings. Painted with AK and Vallejo acrylic paints. [img]https://i.imgur....
Since I've been looking into Austro-Hungarian fortress artillery, I've found a few sites with images and diagrams of the guns used. It's been really hard to find these (apparently googling "12 cm minimalschartenkanone" gets a lot of image results), so I'll link them here. It's best to use Google...
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Well, I have decided on a scheme....subject to delivery of decals.... of course, me wouldn't be be if I didn't create difficulty for myself! The subject is C47 "Conqueror II" as seen here: Picture courtesy of Drake Goodman Current convention has it that tanks were a 'brown' colour (even describ...
G'day all, Are there any Landship'ers who regularly conduct research at Bovington? Being of limited means I don't have the ability to visit there from Australia, nor the cash on hand to pay Bovington for what I would like researched. Cheers, Chris
Would like opinons on the idents of the attached. These are from the image collection of the WW1 War Memorial. 1. US coastal artillery piece in US fortification 2. 12inch mortar at Ostend, Belgian coast 3. Pair of German coastal defence guns Belgian coast 4. 17/19cm German gun in fixed mounting 5. He...
Can anyone help I am trying to locate scale drawings of the above and any other 1 War motor bikes with no luck have got someone who is eager to make the masters but need some drawings. Barry
I have lots of questions about the big German guns, especially the Big Bertha and Paris Cannon. I've decided to start with the 38cm SKL/45 gamily of guns. While snooping around I found this really excellent website on the subject, written in French:
http://html2.free.fr/canons/c...
Attached is one of a couple of images of a captured 28cm SK L/40 Bruno railway gun displayed in Paris in late 1918. If someone knows Paris fairly well where was the gun displayed? The image is from the National War Memorial Museum image collection. Regards, Charlie -- Edited by CharlieC on Thursday 21...
I know these forums have been pretty quiet as of late, but wondering if anyone knows about what year / time the LP 08 Trommelmag was issued to the front. I've read it began production in 1916 and saw more service by 1917, such as at Cambrais, but the most recently published Osprey book on the Battle of Verd...
Were there variations of the French 105mm M1913 sight for export to Russia and other nations? I have several examples of a sight listed in one of my French Artillery manuals that is quite similar to the 105mm M13 but is only a collimating sight not a panoramic sight. Any ideas? This is the web page: ...
Years ago I read about the 1919 influenza pandemic that reportedly began in Europe and killed twice as many as World War One deaths in the Smithsonian magazine. Surprisingly it has been forgotten until brought up again recently after Covid-19 came out. In response to that article there were peopl...
Anybody know of a source of diagrams for these? anything three view, with some measurements would suffice. were these the regular Daimler twin cylinder blocks on a common crankcase?
Hi all Gents I'm currently working on the Takom Mk IV to make Flirt II out of it Since, as far as I know, Flirt II had the envelope radiator, I have to modify the rear plate of the model Is it likely that it looked like in the photo, with the squarish plate for the radiator above the radiator armor? Thanks in a...
Another image from the National WW1 War Memorial - this one says it is of a 350mm Schneider howitzer. The background is the polygone at Harfleur close to the Schneider factory where the 280mm howitzer were built Anyone know if howitzer this was a thing - or just a flight of fancy by a postcard publisher...
How were the modelling companies able to make the other incarnations? Blueprints? I do plan on making a St. Chamond by Hobby Boss. Regular. Preferably one of the earlier versions, but do the kits have the narrower or wider tracks?
The IWM image libraries just keep on giving. The attached images are of a 155mm GPF gun in March 1918 at Nampcel, Oise. The catalogue entry says the images belong to a set exchanged with the French army. It clearly shows the excavation required to emplace a GPF and the awkward working environment since...
I see a lot of kits come out one after another of German WW2 kits including those of little- or never-produced vehicles, but it seems that for WW1, everything British or French or American is being produced. You'd think we'd be seeing plenty of 77mm cannons or support vehicles by now. Understandabl...
I recently got a copy of 'Camouflage' by Thames and Hudson in conjuction with the IWM and they had loads of camouflage stuff relating to WW1 as I was wanting to correctly paint a WW1 tank in 'razzle dazzle' pattern like this: Previously I found a description of some of the camouflage schemes: Re: tank co...
