this is a bit aside, but i am quite interested in older or alternative means of photography, and have come across several recipies for the manufacture of both dry and wet plates, from what i have seen most plates used in WWI were dry plates, but i could be mistaken as you do see decent shutter speeds on som...
Hello, I am looking for pictures of the German FK96a/a version that does not have the recoil system.? I am told this is the gun used by the Germans during the Boxer rebellion. There is a small picture of it in the artillery section of landships, but I need one with more detail.? Can anyone point me to a site...
This is again from that Dutch entry on the Schneider. The caption reads: Voordat de laatste Schneider aan Frankrijk was teruggegeven, gebruikte men in de jaarlijkse Carroussel deze houten imitatie. As far as I can make out, this means, "Before the last Schneider was given back to France (pres...
I am still afraid of posting pictures and links in this forum, as I do not know exactly how this works. But I found that in the Great War Forum: A place to playThis testing space is cleaned up from time to time. Posts are all subject to deletion. The possibility of try and error would make it easier for me.
As promised in the "Mks I to V - variations" thread, here is a very early draft of a guide to the differences. This draft only covers the Mk I, and the diagrams are also early draft (as noted in the text). The references I am using (so far) are "British Mark I Tank 1916", "The German A7V Tank" (for the Mk IV!),...
There was some discussion over the names given to Mediums - Whippet, Hornet etc. in the Modelling section of this forum. I thought it might help to try and clarify a slightly muddy pool.
Whippet was originally the name that Tritton allocated to his design, it was not official. The Ministry of Supp...
while sniffing around on the internet i found this website called rosebuds WWI and early aviation site, which has some amazing stuff, including rare pictures of zeppelins and other air weapons of the war, like this:
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There are a couple of v interesting vids on Youtube of the US Army's search for a suitable tin hat. Here's a montage of some of them. Blame Roger Todd for teaching me how to do this. The actual vid/DVD is available to buy. There was a site called Steelpots, but it seems to have disappeared. http://www.you...
Hi all, I want to put an unditching beam on a 1/35th scale mark IV I'm building, and don't have much information on how the rails were mounted to the roof.? I've got good photos of the mounting points at front and rear, but nothing very helpful for the roof mountings.? Can anyone help with a photo? thanks,...
i recently went on a trip to france for a photography class, and whilst at the mulberry harbor, i found in a militaria store among reichs passes and other nazi memorabilia 2 very interesting things, the first, a postcard, sent by one pierre robin "blese prisonnier bensheim a/d. bergstrasse, se...
A chap gave me this photo of a?Tank on display at Kiln Lane, Milnrow, Rochdale (now in Greater Manchester). The photographer chose a typically glorious Rochdale day?on which to take the picture. I've no more details.
No, not my retirement! I wondered if anyone could tell me when the British medium and heavy tanks of Great War vintage (i.e Marks I, II, III, IV, V, V*, V**, VIII and IX, and Mediums A, B and C) were retired from British tank battalions?? I know that a few soldiered on in specialist schools and experimenta...
Mr. Allingham, last survivor of the Battle of Jutland, the last surviving member of the RNAS, and the last surviving founding member of the RAF, celebrates his 111th birthday tomorrow, June 6th. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Allingham
Hello there, I got something I don't understand about 3 photos, that are left from my Great-Grandfather. he served in WW1 for the whole 5 years and because the man died before I was born, I never had the chance, to get some information by himself. My Mother and Grandmother don't know much, the only thing...
I see that the Great War Forum appears to have collapsed with bandwidth problems - been like it all day. Hopes its not permanent - anyone know anything?
I know some people here access the internet through public internet cafe's, and those computers have filters on them that will block anyone trying to look up anything with /that/ word in it - so don't use it, call them Crooked Crosses or something like that.
I noticed that in several pictures of th...
Hello, Last Saturday, I was at the Saumur tank museum and I took a lot of pictures. Amongst them, some of the FT17 actually displayed. I took a lot of pictures of the tracks, with measurements. I don't remember who ask for the tracks dimension, let me know. I think I have something close to complete. I als...
I was going through my files and came across a group of photos of the WW1 vehicular camouflage that I saw on the old Marx tin toys. Remember those schemes, with the bright colors separated by thick black outlines? I often wondered if any of these paint jobs actually got over to Europe during the war. I hav...
Hello everyone For over ten years now, I am researching on A7V tank 540. ?I'm currently building this tank in 1/25. This vehicle is documented in several photos, taken in October 1918, somewhere between Avesnes-le-Sec and Trith St.Leger in France. There is one well known photo of 540 together with a...
This is a very interesting, apparently UK-based site on Central Powers uniforms, mostly German colonial but also showing German/Ottoman, A-H naval in the Far East, German naval units on the Western front, and (a new one on me) A-H artillery at Gallipoli. Excellent. http://www.germancolonialun...
Does anyone have this edition of "Tankette", (with 1/76 drawings of an Austin 2-3 ton lorry)? Apart from the photograph in "War Cars", and two drawings, I haven't been able to find any information. Wheelbase and track would be useful too.....
Hi all, Being interested in scratch building a Mk IV male or female, can I copy the details of the survivors in Brussels, Aberdeen or Australia? The reason I ask is that during the restoration process many details or modifications can be added that were not part of the original tank in its service life....
Hi ? I've not been here for a while but I thought I would post the link Ive just seen over at ML?? its a Russian site but scroll down for the pictures. http://pilot.strizhi.info/2007/03/21/3060 ? Hope this is news ????????????????????????????? Paul
Forget most of my previous posting. Got it! The end of the Western Front was at Pfetterhouse, a small village about 18 miles south-east of Belfort. The Swiss frontier post on the D10 to the south-west of the village marks the end of the line.?The trenches just stopped at a barbed wire fence. Enclosed is...
Hello! Are there any ideas how I can find the exact place where the Western Front met the Swiss border during the Great War? Any help is much appreciated! Thomas
