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...
I recently found a photograph of a quite strange Freikorps armored car in a book about the 1918/19 Revolution in Bavaria. Overall it looks like an up-armored civilian car/truck of that time equipped with MGs. On the radiator there's a huge skull. The captions says that it successfully participated...
At first few looks the carriage in the attached photos would be to look for the large pieces of the De Bange system - say 120mm (prob). Then I noticed the modified recuperator for a return under the trail - secured to the platform under the axel. Most material I have come across indicates that such mods we...
... am wondering if anyone has picked up their 21cm Morser.? It came out a year or so ago,? and the kit has two sets of wheels.??? I ask because quality seems to vary from kit to kit with Mountford.
Thinking that I would like to try some more colourful painting (and using Ironsides' excellent advice and tips), I have been considering the Russian Civil War. I have converted a HaT Russian Infantryman into a figure on horseback, and intend to paint him up as a White. I am painting a couple of HaT's Re...
In a small military museum in the Upwey / Belgrave RSL (Returned Serviceman's? League) there is a WW1?SKODA mountain gun. This is a WW1 War Trophy gun that I originally thought had been allocated to the C...
This is possibly more suited to a naval forum but I took these photos in the mid 60s in Cairns, North Queensland. The gun was placed on the foreshore opposite the main shopping centre but when I recently re-visited Cairns it was no longer to be seen. I should have made inquiries at the time but it is only no...
Before and after photographs of a War Trophy 150mm howitzer, s/n 572,?that was deteriorating in a childrens playground in the country town of Cooma, New South Wales. Attention was drawn to the significance of this weapon and it is now restored and on display in the town centre. [IMG]https://i295.p...
?The Serbs are recorded as having 9 batteries of Schnieder-Canet (some times reffered to as Schnieder-Cresout) 70mm Mountain Guns. These are supposed to be an off the shelf variation to that supplied to the Russians as their M1909. Their were a number of Krupp & Rhienmetall Trial weapons also (...
Reference? your website; see?Canons allies,?page 9.???? About mid-page appears a Ruski 76.2mm Limber for the M1900 & 1902 field pieces. ( Labeled a "cassion" on your page. )?? This is the only surviving example of this vehicle I have ever seen.? Please contact me?via personal Emai...
Thanks to some answers in my other topic, I already know that different Mark models fought together. But, what about Whippets fighting with Marks? I've always seen pictures of Schneiders, Saint Chamonds and Ft17 rumbling to the battle separately or in groups of the same model. Why not all together o...
With any luck two photos have been uploaded but I will need help with how to insert a photo into the message. When I pressed the insert/edit image icon the table meant nothing to me. Sorry new at this. The photos I have downloaded are of a gun at Mount Morgan in Queensland, Australia. All we know is it is des...
?My principle interest is in the eastern theatres in WWI - Balkans, Turkey, Galicia, Caucassus etc. I have been digging on the Turks & found on line - "Ottoman Army Effectiveness in World War I - Edward J Erickson" - very useful if brief. Ottoman Army Effectiveness in World War I - Edwar...
Hi I've got some Great War highlanders to paint, which i will be doing as Seaforth Highlanders. The Question is does any one know wether the bag on the bagpies would have been tartan or a plain colour and what colour are the ribons are on the top of the pipes, i've seen modern pictures & they are both Ta...
I finally got to Brisbane Boys Grammar School and got some images of the Rohrhinterwagen there. The vehicle was in the middle of a construction area and I couldn't get to the left side of the vehicle because of a trench dug alongside the plinth the vehicle rests on. It was also one of those very bright Que...
