A bloke is selling DVDs on Ebay, each featuring 2 WWI-related German films, at ?4.99. One is Westfront 1918 (featuring the bogus Renaults) plus Die H?lle im Westen (about Verdun/Douaumont) The other is Stosstrupp 1917 and Tannenberg. If these links work they'll take you there. http://cgi.ebay.c...
I attach three views of the tail end of the same Mk IV In the first two taken within a month of each other a thin transverse bar can be seen with a much thicker round tube (?) beneath it. There are other photos showing the same features. Thes last photo taken possibly a month or so later merely has the transve...
Hi, I need a drawing (explosion draw or 4-side drawing) of the MG 08 Lafette for antother conversion in 1/6! Can anybody help? Thanks! -- Edited by Wollhodden at 21:49, 2008-10-02
This is an CHAUCHAT -MG from the GI JOE DOUGHBOY BATTLE GEAR SET which I?ve "pimped": More pics: https://s142.photobucket.com/albums/r110/wollhodden/Chauchat_MG/
"Spartakisten im Zeitungsviertel, Berlin 1919" -Diorama 1/6: (Infos: soon!) Still under construction! - I?ll set an brickwall as backround...More pics: https://s142.photobucket.com/albums/r110/wollhodden/Spartakist/-- Edited by Wollhodden at 21:21, 2008-10-02
"A Soldiers Grave" or "German Living Room Part 2": (Info will also follow!) More pics from my Album: https://s142.photobucket.com/albums/r110/wollhodden/Skelett/
A 1/6 Dio of an German Living Room - August; 1914 - "The last photograph": (Info follows!) More pics: https://s142.photobucket.com/albums/r110/wollhodden/Wohnzimmer/-- Edited by Wollhodden at 20:43, 2008-10-02
Here some pics of my "Dug-Out Diorama":(Info will follow by time!)More pics in my PHOTOBucket -Album: https://s142.photobucket.com/albums/r110/wollhodden/Unterstand/
Pegasus' site is back up and showing masters for French WWI (and WWII, which are not very different). All very nice. No release date yet. http://www.panzer46.com/
I?ve just got this plastic model kit of an "75mm World War I Artillery Piece"from "HALES Life-Like Model Kits". There?s neither a name of the gun model nor a scale of the model indicatet?! First I thought it could be the German? "7.7 cm Feldkanone? 96 n/A" but it seems...
Have just read an account of Gallipoli that mentions a trench mortar party. We are agreed that the Stokes wasn't available. What mortars were used there?
What are good fonts for making lettering for decals of WW1 vehicles in 1:35 scale?? I'm particularly interested in Brit, USA, and German vehicles but would like info on French and Italian as well. TIA, ? Al
What colour is this Whippet.................Grey? A further photo of this example can be found in the excellent book "The Landships of Lincoln" pp60, with the caption "A brand new Whippet gets the star treatment in Fosters yard" Looking at both photos in my mind it does not ap...
Just a short update on the French WW1 locotracteur from the Campagne Company. I have been adding countless rivets from Tichy Train and I'm not done yet. I have started on the upper works. They are a combination of soldered nickel silver plate and plastic card details. The rear plate is just a paper temp...
As you may know I am carrying out research into the British tank (or tanks) named Britannia that toured North America between the eighteenth of October 1917 and the seventeenth of January 1919.During this time Britannia was in New York on five occasions?18/10/1917 to 25/10/1917 fund raising and ge...
In case anyone might be interested, E.J. Morten (Booksellers) have a couple of books by/about Ernest Swinton: A signed U.S. First Edition (1933) of Eyewitness, "personal reminiscences of the Great War, including the genesis of the Tank." Appallingly expensive at ?115. Also one that'...
I've seen some nice images . . . both of the real thing and models . . . of Mobile Machince Gun Section (M.M.G.S) Model-T Fords with a Vickers (?) MG mounted on the left side of the dashboard.? Were these in regular service, and if so, where were they deployed and what was their record?? They are not to be con...
There are recorded instances of Male tanks being fitted with Female sponsons and Supply tanks being fited with Female sponsons. There appear to be no instances of Female or Supply?tanks being refitted with Male sponsons (or are there?). I suspect this is because simply fitting a male sponson would...
Browsing the web?I found this Resin A7V in 1/16 scale from Juwa Modelle. Maybe of interest? High price though at 219 Euros Regards Eddie -- Edited by taz at 23:38, 2008-09-22
I thought I'd bung this post in this section, as it's a 1952 subject. From an absolutely awesome site with tons of Modern Mechanixhttp://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/04/13/why-dont-we-have-baby-assault-tanks/
I am building A7V and Mark IV male models and would like them to be as close to the configuation, colors and markings to the tanks that fought the first tank vs tank duel. I have been unable to get a detailed picture or description of A7V "Nixe" and would really appriciate any help. As to the Mar...
This photo is from the website of the Archives of Heilongjiang Province, China, shows Japanese FT-17s in action in the Second Sino-Japanese War. http://www.hljdaj.gov.cn/pic/20070914095916.jpg Look at its MG. It doesn't look like a Hotchkiss MG. I already know that some Japanese FT-17s and NC...
