I am having a real busy spell at work right now so I can't answer e-mail, update etc, as much as I wish I could. So if you are waiting for some kind of response from me, please be patient: it will come!
Curse Peter Kempf. This little article on Belgium has turned into The Da Vinci Code, but without the vast remuneration. Anyway, I need some help. There are references to Belgian troops using a Berthier machine-gun. I can't find any pics of it, just the fact that it "pre-dates WW1" and...
Dear All, On the moment we are restoring a German type steam traction engine. These engines of the EM type were built between 1914-18 by various companies to the original design of Mr Julius Kemna. The type EM stands for "Einheits Machine", so all builders made the same identical engine. O...
Saw a neat pic of an autocar, cheap early truck with steel sides,
in action in Amiens 1918.
The Canadians used them to good effect to rout the krauts in the fall of 1918.
I think one still exists in Camp Borden.
A number of designs were produced during WW1 for large or medium artillery based on the Davis recoiless principle whereby a counterweight was fired rearwards out of a second barrel by the same charge that fired the shell out of the main barrel. These were much larger than the various Davis weapons tha...
Does anyone else remember these? I remember them as a kid, but they weren't as interesting as cowboys, knights, spacemen, etc. I am now much more mature?and able to?appreciate them in a scholarly way. They were made by Crescent Toys in 54mm. I've managed to get hold of the 4 riflemen, but I...
Take a look at this site. Covers the Vladivostok fortifications and artillery from about 1890 to 1930. Alost of WW1 vintage stuff
http://fortress.wl.dvgu.ru/eng/
I didn't realize old threads didn't resurface after a new post, until now. I updated my previous post about the Lusitania project with new picture and I found it awkward not to get any feedback from other MK. I admirers... Here is the old link with the new updates: http://www.activeboard.co...
Records at The National Archives show that following the First World War, the War Office received a request to sell three Mk IX supply tanks to a Mr A. Edm. Hansen of Berterbrogade 126, Copenhagen, Denmark for an expedition to Greenland. ? There was an issue about selling tanks to a non-allied power, b...
????????????? ?????Gentlemen, ????? ??Could anyone provide plans/general dimensions/pics of the LATIL TAR truck,?? ?? Info on any version?would be appreciated?but specially in? the tank transporter variant. ? Thank you in advance, ??EDUARDO MAMORETTI
i followed the link from Matador's site and found these, "Black Lion Decals" http://www.blackliondecals.nl/decals1-72.htm these are the 1/72 ones, but they also do 1/35 ones
I enclose a photo that I've designated Whippet P2. It appears in a number of books and is said to be the prototype Medium A after the fuel tank has been moved to the front and the turret removed and superstructure raised but before the circular gun ports have been fitted. At first sight this makes perfect...
Foster's 1919 publication quotes an account of Whippets exchanging fire with German tanks at Villers Bretonneux, the German tanks failing to score a hit and breaking off the action with the Whippets as British heavy tanks came in sight. Unfortunately no date is given. Is the the same action that end...
Anyone that wants a copy of that (as always) rare Al.By 1/72 of the Latil TAR French WW1 Arty Tractor, should check at Special East (see the suppliers section). They have it in stock!
Just a quick one (I'm having a very busy period at work, right now, and I have a back-log of mail to answer, sorry about that) but I can't hold this piece of news off: The final gap in the model line-up of WW1 tanks have now been filled! Yes, there is a 1/72 kit out of th...
Quite some time ago I posted some shots of Belgian and German (naval) dog drawn machine guns. To my surprise I now discover that there was also a British unit with dog pulled guns. Its possible that they may be RM. This makes sense as RM units fought in Belgium and could have picked up the idea there, also a...
One of the views we don't often get in photos is of the top of the tank. Fiding the enclosed that has a good view of the top of a Mk IV I notice that the number 24 is painted in large digits on the top of the cab. The only point that I can think of is for the benefit of RFC contact patrols so they can report the tanks p...
Companeros, Im putting together a Mark IV tank. What would be the coorrect paint scheme, numeration, etc.. for a tank present at Cambrai?? Thanks francisco
Gentlemen,
could anyone provide image/drawing/info on how the crane for loading ammunition to 30.5 austro-hungarian mortar was ?
Thank you in advance,
EEduardo
so I can't answer e-mail, update etc, as much as I wish I could. So if you are waiting for some kind of response from me, please be patient: it will come!
but a photo of one being towed by a gelandewagen. The?item number is 180090688420.