Simple question but slightly OT, as it is for the period c1900. Can anyone tell me what colour the Italian navy painted machineguns and landing guns, please, and preferably cite a source. Many thanks Mike
Gentlemen, I'm pleased to announce that Black Lion Decals has just opened the doors of it's new webshop.?We're now selling models from MGM, Retrokit, Solfig, TAS Models and Giesbers Models. This range will be expanding in the future. You may meet us also at shows like the Scale Model Challenge (oct 1...
Recently I found an article in a Chinese magezine about history. The article is about surviving Japanese WWII fortifications in northeast China. It says that Japanese army bought a few 240mm railway guns from France, and there are still some shelters built for this kind of guns remain in northeast C...
http://militiahungarorum.extra.hu/1867_f_j_h_s_l.html?V harckocsi at the top of the page. It's in Hungarian, but Google translator gives a bit of an idea. -- Edited by James H on Friday 4th of September 2009 02:34:21 PM
Hi, I believe there was an article on the Vauxhall D25? in the October 1976 issue of Military Modelling, if anyone has this article would it be possible to obtain a scanned copy. I would like to add a staff car of this type to my collection and need references. TIA ????? Paul
Hi there guys.? Anyone built one of these kits?? I can find them for sale?online, no problem, but absolutely no information about them re: accuracy, detail level, breakdown of parts, etc.? Can anyone help me fill in the blanks here?? Many thanks.
Hello, I'am new on this site, although I'm member of similar forum in the Netherlands/Belgium and Spain. [URL=http://g.imageshack.us/img38/p82201431.j...
(Sorry, this isn't a Tank, a softskin, or an AFV) Renewed mention of the Holt 5 Ton brought me back to this picture. According to the caption, this is Tractor-drawn Artillery of 89th Division, before the largest hangar in Germany. I've established the following: The 89th were in action on November 11...
Hi forum members, Im new to this forum and I am hoping someone may have blueprints or engineering drawings of the mk iv. tank. I scratchbuild in a large scale and its difficult finding these for this vehicle. I am very willing to pay what it takes to secure some decent blueprints, I have researched the mk...
I've found out that most A7V models on the market have got the dimensions of the A7V wrong. Kora, Emhar and the german 1/16 scale resin model have the sides (where the doors and exhausts are) wider at the bottom than the top. I've been in contact?with Rainer Strasheim about it and he is sure that at least M...
Bonjour, Always in French Military archives from SHD vincennes (box 16 N 2130), some informations about Nixe II recovered by Major Davis on July, 25 1919 and loaded on train in Reims station. Perhaps, in the United states, some photos of this even in?an old attic . . Michel http://pages14-18.mesdis...
An album of WWI photos has surfaced on eBay. In amongst the shots are three of Mk II 799 with the starboard 6 pounder still in place. The only shots I had seen previously were after the gun had been stripped. The auction number is 260089596719 and I have no connection whatsoever to the seller (unfortunat...
Hi: I just was at the Ordnance museum at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, in Maryland U.S.A. I saw a notice that they are moving to Fort Lee Virginia U.S.A. The move will take place over the next few years. They are going to build new enclosed buildings for the outside collection. This is really a great thing, s...
Because nobody makes a Mark V, except in card, I have been discussing and considering converting either the Airfix or the Emhar kits. Coverting Cromwell's Mark V*, in the way Peter Kempf has done, was briefly considered, but discarded because it is an expensive model (the rear cabs are different on a...
A friend of mine has drawn my attention to the progress made on the Mark V restoration project. http://dymov.livejournal.com/73878.html#cutid1 Stak Engineering?
Hi all, I am in the process of converting a 1/35 Tauro A7V to the prototype Flakpanzer as seen in the Osprey publication "German Panzers 1914 - 1918" by Steven Zaloga. Whilst the photo's in the book have been a fantastic help I am looking for some more detailed shots of the centre cupola - radi...
I've found a reference in a reminiscence to a tank attack near Arras on 24th December 1917. Would anyone know whether this is likely to be accurate? Were there German tanks active in that area at that time? Was there any sort of attack there on that day? Any information or leads will be very greatly appre...
Hi guys! After some very busy six months, going AWOL, I will now try to return to the site, Forum and the hobby a bit. My aim is to do some updating, albeit at a small scale. I am very grateful to all you regulars at the Forum, who have, in a sense, been keeping the site alive. Thanks! One very practical questi...
Another allied topic Does anybody have the information as to how many improvised gun mounts the german army put into field by end of 1914 ? mostly old fortress guns and naval guns. Jagers book describes them briefly but gives no numbers
Hello, dear Forum members! Please, help me with pictures of A7V Sturmpanzerwagen Commanders. For example, this is the Foto of Leutnant Theunissen (with EK I). Sources: www.gmic.co.uk Thanks Igor
Hi I just posted on the WW1 guns blog a contribution from a friend, with a German smooth bore minenwerfer ("FlugelMinenWerfer'), surviving in Belgium, near Mons. The problem is this minenwerfer tube and wedge presents big differences with the 2 classical types of Flugel Minenwerfer I know 24...
Further to our prolonged debate about whether the Russians had any Lewises, this info has now appeared on Wikipedia: The Russian Empire purchased 10,000 Lewis Guns in 1917 from the British Government, and ordered another 10,000 Lewis Guns from Savage Arms in the US. The US Government was unwilling...
I am compiling information and images of Holt 75's and 120's with the intention of scratchbuilding one in 1/35th scale and am finding it hard to locate a good (or otherwise) set of drawings. I have an old 1/72nd scale drawing ?that when enlarged to 1/35th ?loses clarity, and isnt suitable for the large...
