Hello, I came across this fascinating ebook at GoogleBooks and had to mention it here. It is a formerly confidential US Ordnance Department document entitled Handbook of Ordnance Data and dated November 15, 1918.? There are photos and descriptive texts for just about every weapon system used by th...
Is it just me, or has anyone else ever thought that Lego would be a brilliant medium for modelling WWI Tanks? I did a little Google searching and came up with these - Lego - http://www.brickmania.com/Gallery2/war/MkVtank.jpg Meccano - http://www.scmec.us/images/Henley98/WW1-tank.jpg The ca...
Could anyone tell me on what dates C (3rd) Battalion Tank Corps started and completed exchanging their Mark IVs for Medium As, please?? Do we know what happened to the Mark IVs?? Were they transferred direct to another unit/s (which?)?or sent back to Central Stores? Thanks Gwyn
Over the past few days I saw no less than six 18 pounder field guns (seven including the Martin Perry mid-war conversion), the most numerous gun in the Royal Artillery's arsenal in the Great War. Apart from the seven seen during the week, and the one at the Muckleburgh Collection, Norfolk, are there an...
Hi! After long time delay, I eventually finished my US-ton converted from the 1/35 RPM kit with (very little) help from the MR Modelbau resin?set. At firt view the two tanks look very similar, if not identical, but if you look closer, there are a lot of change! For exemple, the turret shoult be totally r...
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Having now made my Cromwell Models Mk V* s. The model comes with the signaling post which sits on the top of the tank. Does anyone know how these were used? Obviously the batons can be raised and lowered but was it for some type of semaphore? I can remember seeing the same thing on the Bovingto...
Pits containing British and Australian dead from the Battle of Fromelles are being excavated. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7430622.stm You might notice that, unfortunately, the map shows a non-existent place called "Somme" on the French coast*. The BBC's budget for its websit...
Hello, I just came across this website with a large number of WWI era photo postcards of military vehicles and equipment that can be viewed online and thought I'd pass it on. I've just looked at the first page and have noted a number of rarely-seen armoured vehicles, artillery tractors, & etc. Whe...
Lots of excellent pics of surviving examples and v informative text (in French) here: http://orkide.club.fr/index.htm It's beautifully done. It also links to a re-enactors' site here: http://lepoiludelamarne.free.fr/index2.htm
I've had another loong period of too much work and no play, but hopefully I will soon be able to both update the site, answer e-mail AND even do some modelling myself - horray! And I have already started work on WD Models Brits, and they are AMAZING. The uniforms, the detail, the sculpting, the poses, the...
Here's some photos of the WW1 and other interesting exhibits at Fort Nelson
1918 German 105mm Howitzer - the German equivalent of the British 4.5 inch...
A new film of the Tank Mark II,?including good quality moving footage of the rear of The Iron Duke http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbvYa609Gi8 shows track torpedo in use
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I have come across a 1936 Official instruction stating that AFV in the Middle East were to be painted in "light sand" with "dark sand" camouflage. Any ideas on the colour dark sand; i.e. is it a dark brown, dark orange or dark red?
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Mark
Here's a video of the Mk IV Male Tank replica in action at Fort Nelson last weekend http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzNUsYSggHY -- Edited by Rob at 17:45, 2008-05-28
Here's my photos from an event at an old fort near Portsmouth, England, which was holding a WW1 event, featuring a replica WW1 tank - it was built for na indoor film set so isn't as long as it should be, however if I just reduce the size of the photos of the tank vertically (as long as there's no infantry etc i...
Hey all, was wondering if anyone had any good photos or information about the 3 inch Anti-aircraft gun? Apparently it was the first British dedicated AA gun and introduced in 1914. Seen a few small?blurry black and white photos of them on the back of trucks defending London against Zeppelin's/Gotha...
These are made by Wespe Models. They look as if they might be?Wild West/Goldrush vintage, but the the left-hand one looks not unlike some ambulances I've seen in early pics of Flanders, etc. Might be handy, and not too expensive.
Hello,I'm the guy who's working on a diorama of Cambrai(see previous post by Michel),and I have a question about the fascines carried on the unditching-rail. How was it released,I've seen a picture of some sort of wooden handle in front of the tank,other sources tel me it was released from inside(by...
I need a picture of the Krupp 105mm field howitzer M. 1916. AFIK It was introduced into the German Army in mid-October 1916 and mass production began in March 1917. It had a shorter barrel (L/20) than the more common Rheinmethall 105mm field howitzer M. 1916 and it used the carriage of the 12cm howitzer...
Hi All,? subsequent to James's post here I realised there isnt any links to plans for this tank currently on the site that work...... sometime ago?I found this set of plans on a russian site which I believe to be very accurate, they look good anyway... Schnieder CA1 1/35 plans click on the thumbnails Ch...
I am trying to find out if gas and smoke shells where deployed to 18ld's that were deployed in the forward areas of British positions in 1918. I know these guns were positioned in ones and twos primarily as anti-tank guns but I have not yet found out what the breakdown of rounds supplied in the limbers for...
I know Rob likes his WWI motorbikes. Here are a couple in Belgian service, one in the dunes, by the look of it, sometime after the Yser. The other is no longer fit for purpose as the rueful rider examines it after it has been hit by a shell.
