James H here, posting from a remote station. The IWM has had the 1916 film The Battle of the Somme digitally remastered. According to educational media sources, a lot of detail that is bleached out in the original has now been restored. It will be available on DVD "in the near future".
A new paper model is available at http://www.allfrompaper.narod.ru/. If my Babel Fish Russian is accurate, it is a model of a converted Jeffery Quad; if not, then it's still a WWI?Russian AC of some sort . It, along with others, can be found through the http://www.allfrompaper.narod.ru/Models.h...
In a few months, Osprey will publish their New Vanguard number 133 about the British Mark IV tank; it's being written by David Fletcher, so it's going to be a must-have for most of us.... all the best, Michel.
I don't know if clatter is the right collective noun for Mk Is (perhaps a clank) but here is one - a section of four Mk Is complete, with anti grenade roofs, presumably getting ready to move off for the first action in 1916. -- Edited by Centurion at 21:31, 2007-04-16
Looking at the back of Egbert in this photo taken at Preston in the last week of Jan 1918 there appears to be a number partialy painted out on the petrol tank. I wondered if it might give a clue to the tank's original operational identity. Anyone any better than I at decyphering this? I thought the last dig...
I attach two photos. One shows a tank with the word Baggage on the mild steel sponson (its rescuing a Mk V) whilst the other, supporting the Canadians at Amiens, has the word Supply. Is there a difference? I can find equal numbers of tanks with Supply and Baggage. One thought is that Supply might mean tha...
I have seen a number of explanations for the presence of the Whippet at the canadian tank museum at Borden. However I recently found the following: "This particular tank was called 'JUDITH' by General Worthington after Judith Robinson of the Globe and Mail, who wrote a feature article in 1940 o...
In response to the recent posting under tanks re armoured cars in Africa. 1. The armoured cars in use in S W Africa and East Africa were sections from No 1 Armoured Car Squadron RNAS. 2. Since the cars used in SW Africa were Rolls Royce (see photo attached) then its is very likely that the ones in E Africa we...
I'd be pleased to hear from anyone in, near or visiting Suffolk.? There are some photos held in their Record Office in Lowestoft that I'd like to see, but unfortunately Lowestoft is a long way from me!? I don't want copies (just a knowledgeable eye for tank types and markings)?and I can't pay expenses o...
I am thinking about a reform on the Model Gallery: I will stop hosting the actual pics of models myself on the site. Instead I will just **link** to the free photo sites were the pics are stored by the individual modeller (Flickr, Photobucket etc). This will means that the modellers are urged to publish...
Just wanted you to know that I'm back. I'm still pretty much mired in work, so the work on the site will be at a reduced rate.? But at least I will be able to do some updates. (And participate in the Forum.) Which I have, today. -- Edited by Peter Kempf at 15:56, 2007-04-18
There is an obscure little reference that, while German Tsingtao was under siege by the Japanese, an armored train was employed by the Germans breifly to attack Japanese positions. From the description in the text, it appeared to be a small narrow gauge locomotive and railcars that normally transp...
Hi,?any information would be welcome on regular arab units in particular uniforms and 'Kaffia'(traditional head scarf)?colours and anything else...many thanks cheers -- Edited by Ironsides at 01:32, 2007-04-15
A photo has recently been uploaded to the AWM website. It's a nice, clear photo of Lady Wingate. The photo number is P03613.009 and it looks as if there may be some sort of camouflage on her (or a strange corrosion pattern; take your pick)
Visiting Moscow this last weekend I bought an injectionmoulded?(1/72) kit of a Russo-Balt ac, its short-run and not of the best quality though. The producer is "LW", soes anyone know anything about this producer? Are they russian? (all text in the instructions are in english and there i...
I thought that it might be useful and a guide to newer members if we had a thread to highlight those places in otherwise impecable reference books where either captions are incorrect or photos are possibly mis leading. As a starter here is an first review of Tanks of the World 1915 -1945.
Page 69 item 5...
I found the attached photo of a Mk V* belonging to the? Canadian 1st tank batallion at Bovingdon in Oct 1918. Interestingly it has no call sign or home service number. The shot comes from a Canadian military article on the development of armoured tactics.
Hello all, I'd like to model the MK A Whippet known as "Musical Box", of which there is an article on this site, however, I have no idea what markings it carried! Any help is appreciated. In case there is no available info on "Musical Box", I'd like to model one with national bands o...
I thought that it might be instructive to see how a photo can mislead. Take a look at photo A. This is often produced and can be seen in A New Excalibur. Its very dramatic showing the officer about to unleash his tank into the fray on the Menin Road. However this is part of a larger photo that has been severel...
Hello I.m looking for data about production artillery? weapons? during? WW1? for main? participants? of war (? thats mean how many each model of gun was? produced? in given year ) .? I have attached these data for A-H and partly France ( sorry but I don't remember source). I will be gratefull for simill...
The Germans recovered and repaired a significant number of tanks from Cambrai in 1917 but I've read various references to British crews in 1918 destroying, blowing up or otherwise disabling their tanks when forced to abandon them. This suggests that British tanks were now carrying some form o...
Remember the FT17s that turned up in Afghanistan a couple of years ago? I've come a cross a claim that at least one FT17 was captured "from the British Expeditionary Force" that entered Afghanistan during the Third Afghan War of 1919. Is this a possibility? Any evidence of any Renaults bei...
If anyone hasn't come across these yet, the museums at Axvall and Munster have revamped their websites and got better pics of the LKII/Stridsvagn. http://www.panzermuseum.com/battle-tank/lk-ii.html http://www.pansarmuseet.se/? (on this one, click on Samlingen in the left-hand column,?...
