i figure this would be the best place to have a topic like this. during WWI the development of tanks (as with most motor vehicles) was astoundingly diverse, and it would be interesting to see what the offspring of such vehicles as the tsar tank would have looked like. now i have heard from different sour...
?In the town next to mine Nitro, WV USA there was an WW 1 museum.?It had an Austrian howitzer and a FT. 17 tank on display with the 8mm MG. The museum closed and later the tank was removed. Have any of you heard anything about it. thanks.
I have ccompleted the major corrections to the Emhar MkIV Male sponsons. I will try to post some pictures as soon as I figure out how. To briefly describe it I angled the rear and added .040 plastic to the back. I then added? .020 to the bottom of the sponson. Next I added .080 wide strip stryene to the verti...
Following the semi-disaster with the Matador Models AEC Y type, i've given up on using traditional super-glue for metal kits - what do you guys and girls use for metal kits? Or should I just bite the bullet and get a soldering iron?
Hi all, this is my attempt to refresh the old Airfix Mk1, converting it in a Mk2. I did not do much on the kit itself (the 'new' release) as for instance I did not give it the girder on the sponson deck. I only did a bit of drilling out the vision slots, gave it muffler plates and did not glue to tight the track. A...
Trying to pick your brains again.?Has anyone got pictures or any information on where the tanks hid before the Cambrai Battle. Especialy D company. modern photos of the woods as well . has anyone been on a trip there? thanks everyone. -- Edited by mickk on Sunday 9th of May 2010 06:26:24 PM
Is there a solvent that will remove dried PVA glue? I am building a WWI Russian airship in card and want to replace the engine mounts with brass wire. To do this, I plan on gluing the wire along the truss lines with PVA and soldering the brass wire together and removing the card former.
Hi everybody: I have been trying to find any picture or information about the possible capture and use of Mark I tanks by germans. Looking at the pictures and texts in books and the web, it looks like only Mark IV were used as beutepanzers (and whippets and Ft17, of course). Does anyone know anything abo...
Hi all, I watched a program on TV last night about the above museum. I dealt mainly about the politics of running a volunteer staffed organisation. Saw little of the vehicles, a lot of the Popemobile, a quick glimpse of a WD petrol/diesel tractor?They have a fantastic archive, part viewable on websit...
Was wondering if the 4.7 inch guns mounted on wheels as used be the RN during in the Boer War were modified for use in WW1?? I' ve seen photos of 60 pdrs and (I think) 127 mm guns that seem to have a similar carriage although different wheels.? If so, I was wondering if someone could post photos and drawings o...
Can anyone describe how they've gone about making the British tank track spuds commonly seen? The Matador tracks with spuds are out of stock and won't be available again until July so going to make my own spuds out of plasticard to attach to the Airfix tank tracks - if anyone has a drawing of the general a...
Pretty good condition even before they started work on it.http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.hexellent.com/files/11/Tank_MkIV_Closeup.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/personal-gallery/tank-mk-iv-8534.html&usg=__PNedZZ2aHvxD...
Does anybody know anything about Atlas trucks used by the AEF in WW1? Were they made in the USA and taken to France?or were they purchased from a French manufacturer? I have found a reference to them being possibly related to the US Company "Martin truck and body", but can anybody shed some m...
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Can anybody tell me where I can find some drawings of the Mark IV tank, either Male or Female. Ideally several plans and elevations, but anything will do.?Also, ideally on the web to download or screengrab.Thanks.
In the otherwise excellent vid of the scratch-built Little Willie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsE3BuvPpA? the gent says he decided to paint it in "Mk I camouflage". As you can see, the book from which he took his reference shows a Mk V, in what looks like Beutepanzer camo. Whilst a...
Hello everyone! Just thought I'd introduce myself. I'm looking forward to many great years on the forum. I'm done?making an early,?generic Mk III or II?from an airfix kit, but have no camo scheme ready for it. What should I paint it? I'm open to any and all suggestions. At this point, changing it from I...
Anyone know why the British Male IV male tank from Emhar is becoming as rare as hens teeth? As Emhar is the only one that is producing 1/72 British it becomes a real problem when no one is now stocking it! Need to keep encouraging HaT to start producing WW1 tanks as Emhar does seem to be so unpredictable!
Nice original postcard I won off ebay, 1914 postcard and posted, in France, in 1915. Notice the flimsy looking carriage wheels of the gun, later replaced with the 'Traction Engine' type steel wheels or the Modified B no 12 wheel, such as the IWM example [IMG]https://i282.photobucket.com/albums/...
After only 5 years, the masters are ready: http://www.strelets-r.com/SetsR/Set075/Master.html They look like the usual standard, with a couple of slightly implausible poses, and Strelets haven't been able to resist the "firing from saddle" figure.
I just picked up the Military Modeling Military Vehicle Special and it has 2 articles on the A7V. One is the Sparta 1/35 kit by John Prigent and the other is on the Earlier A7V Types byRainer Strasheim. There is also a build article on Rodans Rolls Royce 1920 pattern Armored Car by Peter Heath. I didn't se...
This has already been mentioned, but I think it was buried in a post on a different topic. Den Bels models have released 2 new WW1 kits; Austin armoured car, 2nd Series, and the unusual looking Jeffery-Poplavko armoured car. Both are available in the?'model shop' section of Black Lion Decals.
Hello all, It has been a while since I posted here but when I came across this I immediately thought I'd bring it to the attention of the Landships forum.? It professes to be a photo of a Rolls Royce armoured car captured by German troops in Lebanon in 1917 or 1918: http://www.militaryphotos.net/forum...
I've started on Landships 2 - the start page with empty links is at: www.ammsbrisbane.com/landships/index.html I've tried to keep the general look of the Landships site. Post any comments. suggestions in this forum. I'll prototype some of the other pages over the next few days. Would someone like...
An article published by the Western Front Association contains the following
" An even larger German tank weighing 148 tons ? the A8V - was planned, but never got into production."
The K Wagen was heavier (165 tons). Any one know what the A8V was supposed to be like?
