Hi some French friend sent me the foolowing pictures of a gun exposed in France, in the Vosges sector. I am confused by the identification plaque found with the gun, that says it is a 88mm Skoda gun M 1875. I personally see every single characteristic of a German 9cm K73 or K73/91 gun, very similar to this...
Something that Ironsides?said on the H?T Forum in a post about leather equipment rang a distant bell. He mentioned "chrome leather", which?I now know to be this: Chrome-tanned leather, invented in 1858, is tanned using chromium sulphate and other salts of chromium. It is more supple an...
This gun was allocated to the Melbourne bayside suburb of St. Kilda. The St. Kilda council going through an anti-war phase sold it to a Sydney scrap merchant and it was stopped at the border by the proprietor of a large Melbourne commercial market, who bought it and had it returned to Caribbean Gardens...
This is a sad story. Some years ago my son and I were driving through the town of Ararat, Victoria, Australia when I saw in the Council yard a large gun lying on it's side, with a wheel smashed in and covere...
Hi folks, Today I have GREAT news for the WWI armor Modelers: The Model Cellar would like to announce that it has reissued it's original injection molded individual track links for the 1/35 Emhar WWI tank kits. We have a limited production resissue of track links for the British Mk.IV Male and Female (...
Does anyone happen to have any biog on the above gent? It seems he lived to a ripe old age and was still writing about automobiles in the 1960s. He published his memoirs, entitled Quelques T?moignages, but I haven't ben able to dig up any more than that. Any help greatly appreciated.?
I've noticed that as well as the 1920 pattern Rolls Royce armoured car, Roden are also bringing out the WW2 version with sand tyres and different turret etc. Has anyone heard anything about them bringing out a WW1 version? Plenty of scope - always fancied the look of the ones held in reserve at Arras in t...
Quick preview of the Retrokit 1915 Renault before building commences. I've also got the Rolls Royce (Tropical), but not too happy with that accuracy wise, so it's going back to the supplier for a swap for the European version who the supplier, http://www.lonewulfmodels.co.uk, was more than happy...
Here's the Simplex 20hp Tractor, as used by the War Department Light Railways, previously made by BK Modelcraft. As the range has been bought and now being reissued by Matador (ie the Holt Tractor), fingers crossed this will become available again. Many thanks to Barry Williams of WD Models for the k...
Another Retrokit - their 1/72 60 pounder heavy field gun. Always wanted a model of this since seeing the one at the Imperial War Museum in London, and it's always one of the first exhibits I go to when I visit [IMG]...
Another WW1 gun walkaround - an Austrian 10cm M14 leichter Feldhaubitze at the ANZAC Memorial, Oakey, Queensland. www.ammsbrisbane.com/reference/lFH14.html Images by Dave Scorer. ( Oakey is about 160km West of Brisbane and is the home of the Museum of Australian Army Flying ) Regards, Charlie...
(Hopefully I did this right and attached the images.)If I did, they should show where I am with my latest work, namely converting the Airfix 1914 Fire Engine into an G.S. subsidy truck. There isn't much of the original kit used, the wheels, chassis, radiator and bonnet being the main items used, the re...
According to this plaque theQueensland town of Rockhampton exchanged with the Australian War Memorial museum a colonial cannon for a War Trophy German 105 mm howitzer in 1984.? This howitzer has a wor...
I realize this is very much off topic, but was hoping some European members; particularly French or Belgian, might be able to enlighten me regarding this subject.
I am curious about the commercial barge traffic conducted on the many rivers, canals , and navigatable streams of the occupied...
This turned up in response to a query I raised about captured WW2 Japanese guns in Australia. It was captured in Hong Kong in 1945 and presented to the town of Strahan in Tasmania. It doesn't seem to fit with any IJA artillery piece so perhaps it's an older gun converted to the coastal defence role. Any id...
Merry Chrismas for all! My pozition - Fawley, UK, Esso Terminal. Load gasoil for West Africa. Today sail, will be at home at mid of January/ May be. Best regards.
War Trophy gun preserved in the South Australian city of Mt. Gambier. Superbly restored?and presented. Photo copying not of highest quality but the overall impression is there.
I'm currently building the Airfix Mk 1 tank as a Mk 2, either Iron Duke or Lusitania, and was wondering what I have to do to the back end of it to make it accurate? I thought that i'd just have to fill the four holes in (two on the back plate, one on each inside track), as the wheels aren't to be fitted. However,...
Hi: I just finished Emhar's British Mark V ,1/35 scale. I scratch built the unditching rails and beam, hindged the foldable cargo tray and added some details. I hope you like the pictures. There are more in the Landship's gallery? under my name in the tank album. [photobucket] Thanks and have a Merry C...
