Not a whole Tank, but very impressive, and certainly gave me a surprise when I saw it this afternoon - the National Army Museum in Chelsea, west London, has a new small exhibition about technology in the world wars, and the entrance to it is a replica side unit to a Mk 1 or 2 Male Tank - it's just one side, wit...
I know what some of you are going to say: oh its just a 155mm gun or something like that. This photo was an autochrome (converted to B&W) in Hew Strachan's "The First World War" from 2003 that he said was of a 155, which it is patently not. It is certainly a Schneider carriage and crad...
Apologies if this is old news, did a search but nothing came up - this forthcoming HaT set featuring a heavy mortar, is it not the same design, or very very close, to the British 9.45 inch mortar known as the 'Flying Pig'? http://hat.com/Curr2/Bx8238AM/Bx8238AMm.html Apart from the hats and the shap...
Another walkaround of a gun in the Brisbane area. This one is a 10cm K.04 at Nundah, Brisbane - www.ammsbrisbane.com/reference/K_04.html. There is an image of the barrel markings and the unrestored gun. The breech is missing from the gun and the paint has faded badly since it was restored in 2002. Th...
I ran across a few photos of the Barling bomber where it looks almost a khaki color, with black "US Army" lettering, rather than the almost black olive drab with white lettering I've usually seen. They are at the airwar.ru page- Barling Page Second and third pictures from the bottom. Would...
Yesterday, by chance, visited a hobby shop and bought a Airfix's WW1 horse Artillery set in 1/72 (more like HO/OO) The contents are quite basic and apart from the figures it all should be scratchbuilt if not intended for wargaming. What's the opinion of the group regarding these figures? They sure ar...
Another gun used by Czech Legion in Russia 1918-1919?I regret I couldnt take the side pick on this one! As much as I regret that some things could never be photographed as I had so much flash back from the showcases?More to come?Till soon,?Y
I've read that Belgium, along with the other Allies, had no mortars at the outbreak, but this pic shows some pre-war examples at a demonstration at the training camp at Brasschaet. It must be round about 1910, give or take a couple of years. They're described as mortiers de 12, and although they look li...
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Last night I was watching "For whom the bells tolls" with Gary Cooper, and in the scene qhere the nationalist tanks advance toward the bridge -near the end of the movie- there appear at least two FT17s with a modified turret. perhaps a post-war american modification? Anyway, it was cool to...
Hi, I can't resist presenting the great work of a Belgian friend of mine, Mathieu Pascal, member of several Historical Associations, who realized this 21cm Morser M1910 in position in front of the Forts of Liege, in August 1914. He realized an impressive conversion of the 1/35 Verlinden Kit #1022 (n...
Hi: I'm building a British Mark 5. I see in the photos there is a horizontal braced bracket with a vertical hole in the end, aft of the signal mast. Any ideas on it's purpose. Could it be for a flag? Thanks, Chris A.
In 1999 I went for holidays to Borneo, Malysia. At Kuching, capital of Sarawak I visted the police museum. In fact it was more a museum of local military history, fitted with life size figure of ANZACS (Liberation of Malaysai 1945) and british forces of the 60s (communist insurgency) and such. Howeve...
I wanted? to use Cambrai Day to registrate here and introduce myself in short. I?m Robert from northern Germany and I was visiting Peter Kempf?s HP for years. I did airplane modelling in the past, but swapped to reenactment and PC game modding (WWI mods of course) during my studies. Always had a deep in...
I visited Paris in Oktober and surely visited the collections at Les Invalides. It was my second time after 1998. Im remember from my fist visit, that in the side yards of the building complex there was a great number of french (and german?) WWI guns located, standing freely under the sky, but were unac...
Gentlemen, I was hoping someone could identify "Minna" for me please. She looks larger than 15cm, but then I'm no expert. I've thumbed through my Herbert J?ger's German Artillery of World War One and the usual online resources and have drawn a blank - which is not uncommon Thanks in advanc...
I am wondering to what extend research was carried out during WW I on electrical / electronics weapons. - early form of radar was tested and patented before the war but I have never heard of any application/test during the war ? - a Popular Mechanix-style mag had a cover about "electrocuting the e...
I am breaking a project down into small pieces, and here is the first piece... I want to make the louvres on a Tank Mark V or V*. Is it possible to get plasticard or a plastic moulding that looks like the attached photo? Or can someone suggest a method for making the louvres?
The Schneider Canet guns before WW1 were identify with an acronym. I know that P means Puissant,? D "indipentent line of sight" (but I would like to know the French designation, where this D comes from?) I know that a C gun was not fitted for an independent lin of sight, but again I don't know t...
Having at long last opened the box I have realised it's a reissue of the B&K kit. With this in mind does anyone know if there is any alternative etched or other tracks that could be used on the Holt? There seems to be a lot of tracks available to the 2 War modeller would any of these be OK for this? Cheers
Here's a few pic's from old postcards, showing Dutch infantry around 1915 with Schwarzlose MG's on dog carts. During WW-1, the Dutch army slowly changed uniforms from black to field grey. Both uniforms could be seen together. all the best, Michel.
The databases of surviving WW1 artillery suggest there are 3 FK 96 guns in Australia. There are at least 4 - one of which is a couple of km from my place. I've done a small walkaround of it at www.ammsbrisbane.com/reference.htm. The gun is fairly complete comparing it to the diagrams on this site. The gu...
I know what some of you are going to say: oh its just a 155mm gun or something like that. This photo was an autochrome (converted to B&W) in Hew Strachan's "The First World War" from 2003 that he said was of a 155, which it is patently not. It is certainly a Schneider carriage and crad...