As you all probably know, the Tank Museum in Dorset, UK has the finest collection of WWI vehicles in the world. Here's the pre-WW2 exhibits, mainly WWI but a few interesting and unusual between the wars designs. No tripods allowed but the lighting was very good so didn't use my mini pod hidden in my pock...
This is kind of a trivial question; sorry! I have been wondering about the designations 'LK I' and 'LK II'. Who designated them as such; the builders or the allies? Because; the big difference between LK I and LK II is the track run (mud chutes on the LK II, not on the LK I) and engine access (large access pa...
? The LK I and II are shown by many sources as powered by a Daimler 50 hp sleeve valve engine with forced water cooling and the Strid with a Daimler 55hp water cooled engine. Now I can find no record of Daimler in Germany making such engines. Daimler in Coventry made a 38hp sleeve valve engine that could be p...
Hi All! Has anyone ever heard of a?German Tank Commander (could be also a unit commander or just a simple officer in a German tank unit right before?the war ended) named: Leutnant (Lieutenant) Finkbeiner Also it could be: T?ckbeiner, F?ckbeiner, Sinkbeiner, Finkheimer or similar. Maybe he was lat...
Hello, is there anyone who can tell me more about the Firing Line Mark I scale 1/15? I recently bought it .The seller told me it was a limited run from late eighties and srictly made? in a run of 50 examples. The body is completely made from photo-etched plates and the tracks and tail wheel are made?of alum...
Hello, is there anyone who can tell me more about the model of the Mark I scale 1/15 ?I recently bought it.It's from the manufacturer Firing Line?. ?The body of the tank is completely photo-etched end the tracks and tail wheels are made from aluminium. kind regards, Max
Hello, is there anyone who can tell me more about the model of the company Firing Line? It's a Mark I in the scale 1/15.It's all built up in photo-etched plates and the tracks and tail wheels are made of aluminium. I recently bought this kit.The seller told me the kit was produces in a limited run of 50 exam...
Just to let those of you that have an interest in the Narrow Gauge War Department railways W^D models has just released models of the A class wagon and the C class.
Greetings, I need this artillery piece (which in fact is the 21 cm M?rser 16) to complete my WWI german artillery collection. I hate from resin but there simply is no hope to see this particular gun in styrene. Verlinden's kit has extraordinarily good price, however from outward it seems like a zillio...
...so goes the headline in Tit-Bits from March 28, 1931... "Hard by the British Museum there is a war relic which has always looked especially out of place.? It is a tank, and is, as it seems, permanently embedded in the roadway, like some hideous monster - and, indeed, it is necessarily that.? Bu...
Gentlemen I'm trying to designing my own 1/72 Whippet tank to be made from card.? I have a couple of whippets to depict, Firefly, Caesar II, Fanny's sister etc.. But I've not been able to find out any of the names or numbers of the whippets involved in the battle of Villers-Bretonnaux.? There were 7-8 wh...
The first sentence of the latest Osprey opus "War on the Western Front" indicates that there were combats in the Falklands and in the South Pacific during WW1. I am very puzzled by this I wonder what the opposing forces could be ? And all the maps I have seen of WW1 combat fields have always bee...
?Gentleman Hello, I am in need of photo's, drawings, diagrams, any thing that would give me an idea about what the sponsons of a Mark 1 male would have looked like inside. Thank You for any information All the Best Tim R. -- Edited by Tim R at 18:06, 2008-10-22
Technically off-topic, but stumbled across this on Wikipedia: The US decided early in World War I to switch from 3-inch (76?mm) to 75 mm calibre for its field guns. Its preferred gun for re-equipment was the French 75 mm Model of 1897, but early attempts to produce it in the US using US commercial mass-...
Hello, I am currently working on compiling a database that will include all specifically identified Rolls Royce armoured cars. These identifications are based on photos, war diaries, internet sources, & etc. (For several years I have been gathering scans of photos of Rolls Royce armoured ca...
Has anyone got details of the turret and the hatches of the Austin can't find details in the usual sources it must be the British Austin. Here's hoping !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From the September 1989 Fine Scale Modeler article. This is my first time building from drawings. I'm glad it doesn't have many compound curves! Last week: Tonight (I don't get to work on it every night) [i...
Came across these of a Holt runner. Assumed the prairie in the background was USA, but it turns out to be Lincolnshire. I'll try to find out whose it is.
This Vickers MG is mostly a paint job with some scratch-built accessoires (Spare Parts & Tolls -Box and some details): More pics: https://s142.photobucket.com/albums/r110/wollhodden/Vickers%20Gun/-- Edited by Wollhodden at 21:22, 2008-10-02
Hi, I searching info about the (goatskin) jerkin used by the british Tommy in WW1. When was it introduced and how long it was used? If anybody got some pics...!? Thanks!
Not a topic as such,?just a bit of?shameless self publicity here. I couldn't find detailed online accounts of WWI tank actions, so I've written some. I've finished writing the first draft of narratives of all the tank actions at the Somme, Arras and 3rd Ypres. There's also lists of all the info I've ga...
I wasn't aware this had happened. The Mk V survivor made an appearance in the Lord Mayor's Parade in London last year - not under her own steam but on a low-loader, obviously with a bit of barbed wire here and there. Here's a grab from a very short clip, only 2-3 seconds. It seems she is no longer a runner.
Hi guys, Could someone speak to the quality of the book "Beutepanzer im Ersten Weltkrieg" for me?? I've got some birthday money burning a hole in my pocket and have located a reasonable copy online (which you had better not buy before I can!), and I was wondering if it was worth the money.? An...
Gentlemen, could anyone illustrate about this images picked-up in http://www.artitec-deutschland.de/arah055.htm?? were them real ww1 subjects, or? are just funny extrapolations? tahnk You in advance, EDUARDO
My?camerad Maxim Kolomiets from Moscow wrote new book "Russian armour in?First World war" (in Russian). This is hes second book. Furst book (M. Kolomiets and M. Bariatinski) "Armoured cars of Russian army 1906-1917" was in 90. years. This is new edition, more information,...
