A new forum on Belgian militaria has just been set up, an offshoot of 14-18, IIRC. Anyway, here it is: http://belgianmilitaria.forumparfait.com/index.php There's a dedicated WWI section. Which brings me to the problem. My stuff on Belgian uniforms on Landships is in many respects garbage, I now...
Sunday, Feb 28th; Military Book Fair at Imperial War Museum North, Manchester, 10am-4.30pm. Traders have come from Surrey, Darlington, Germany, to name but a few. I got there at about 1pm, to be told that the fire alarm had gone off at midday and couldn't be reset.?There was no fire. Punters had been e...
Hello! I am looking for photos of the following Beutepanzer IV: - "Peter"; - "Hanni"; - "Max"; - "Moritz"; - "Marianne"; - "Trude"; - "Kerlchen". Please help me. Thanks in advance, Igor
At the moment I am happily & productively in a kit bashing pahse doing WWI Artillery conversions. I have post several on this site & have 3 more to finish writing up & then to post. In reviewing things for my next project I noticed that I have a small stack of 10 to 11mm spoked wheels sitting un...
Making progress on my replica ft-17 tank turret. Gun assembly still giving me issues, needs shroud yet. The gun barrel is longer than it should be, but it needs to be to accommodate the armament. It is equipped with a 12guage shotgun for blank? firing, and will be used as a bunker for ww2 reenacting. Whe...
Greetings, I recently added a piece of WWI?trench art (a brass match safe) to my collection that depicts a MK V side view and front view. On the front of the tank, the artist has scribed the name "OLIVIA".? The piece was done by a member of the 306th Salvage and Repair Co, AEF.? Does the name &qu...
These future releases are listed on HaT's site: 8159 WWI early French Arty (75mm)8172 75mm gun M18978173 76.2mm Putilov m/028235 WWI Highlanders8236 WWI Indian Infantry8238 WWI Austrian Mortar 8239 WWI French 37mm gun 8240 WWI German Machine Gun 08 8241 WWI German Jaeger MG08 8242 WWI Italian 75m...
Some of you already know that there are a fair number of Turkish guns in Australia, most captured in Palestine in 1918. Among these guns are examples with Turkish script inscriptions on the breech (see attached - a 7.5cm M03 at Wallaroo, SA). I've been trying to figure out how to extract the serial no. a...
I am placing this post on behalf of the Friends of The Lincoln Tank.? They are currently carrying out in depth research on tank 799 which was a Lincoln machine and which was knocked at at the first battle of Bullecourt. What they need is someone with some information about the excavation of tank 799. The...
When I did my last conversion a number of Hat Forum members asked if I could look at the rereleased British WWI RHA & see what was doable to get a good 13pdr out of it. Well here is my attempt! I have focussed on the 13pdrs key visible features. I have also tried to keep things simple & avoid fiddly. A...
Gentlemen, wanted to share this point of view. How it could be for example, that , apart from the (rare to get one) RPM kit?for 1/35?and the? 72 scale Revel rendering, yet the "leaders" as Trumpeter, Tamiya; Dragon , HELLER(!!!) or Italerei have not been yet able to consider such an importa...
I am new to Great War modeling and I am wanting to convert the 1/72 RPM kit of the M.M.G.S. to a supply truck like the 1/35 version. My question is if there is any information on the real vehicle or should I just use the 1/35 kit pictures as a guide? Thank you for your help
Lately I have seen a French Adrian with a brass shield on the peak. It had an inscription "soldat de la grande guerre" and I was told by the owner of the helmet that French veterans were allowed to wear these, being on memorial parades. Can anyone confirm that, or tell me more? Kieffer
This leichte Minenwerfer has turned up at Irvinebank in Queensland. Irvinebank is an old mining town in North Queensland which crashed when the Tin mines closed in the 1920s. The base plate and mortar tube looks like a standard neuer Art type but the tail is different from any of the surviving lMWs wit...
13 pounder Quick Firing Gun, as used by the Royal Horse Artillery. This particular gun was used at Nery in 1914 by L Battery, RHA, which won 3 VC's that day in 1914. On September 1st 1914, this gun was the only one not destroyed, and continued to fire on the German 4th Cavalry division's artillery a thousa...
Hi all I think I read a thread about this topic on this forum not too long ago. So excuse this boring question, please. Next week I plan to visit Paris for a day or two. I would like to visit the Mus? de l'Air at Le Bourget and the Mus? de l'Arm?e in the centre. Of course it would be nice to see a model shop (or seve...
Hi All, This image is a picture of the memorial tank at Ryde, Isle of? Wight. I can't quite make out the serial number at the rear. Has anyone with better eyes or greater knowledge of MKIV Female Serial numbers a suggestion as to what it might be? It would be nice to be able to find out a little about this Tank...
Hey Guys! On Monday I received Squadron/Signal's new book "Italian Truck-Mounted Artillery in Action", which, as you might guess, covers the development of Italian truck-borne guns.? It devotes the majority of it's space to WW2?systems and service, especially desert usage, but the...
Hi All! A time? ago I asked you for informations regarding German tanbk commander Lt. Geyer. A friend of mine bought a group of documents of a German tanker of WW1. Believe it or not ... he now owns an award certificate of the German "Erinnerungsabzeichen fuer Kampfwagenbesatzungen" (Bad...
http://www.journaux.fr/revue.php?id=135660 By Lt-Col Paul Malmassari, French expert on early AFVs. Study begun with pre-WW1 (18th +19th century armoured vehicles/projects) and then goes on with 1914-1915 trials , then early AFVs and finally AFV developments that were not to be. A lot of new i...
