Tim,
I am posting this in case others may be interested. Dr Jager has finished his latest book "Panzers at War" and has passed on this information re your enquiry about the use of the 10.5 cm gun as a Flak gun on a railway car. He says in his letter (he isn't on email) that " As for the questions Tim Rigby has...
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I wondered i f anyone could tell me what gun exactly the A7V had.
I have contradicting information on that subjet: there is talk of a captured russian 57mm sokol gun that was supposedly superior to anything the Germans had.
Or was it a Belgian Maxim-Nordenfeldt quick-fi...
Ladies and gentlemen,
I've been unable to access the Forum for several weeks. This is for reasons connected with the workings of computers that I cannot begin to grasp, but all is now apparently well. Or so I am assured.
First of all, I know the Belgian uniforms article is badly in need of correctio...
Just to let you chaps know, the newly renovated Liberty Memorial Museum has opened to the public this past weekend. This is the only national WWI dedicated memorial/museum in the US, right here in the heart of Harry Truman land, Kansas City, MO. Their website is www.libertymemo...
I've been looking at the drawings of Cromptons landships recently available through the link posted in forum. Now I understand that the Crompton patents specify the use of Bullock track units but those on the drawings would appear to be closer to Holt. Anybody got any ideas?
In an earlier thread, a photo was posted which shows a male sponson fitted to the port side of a Mk V* female (WD No. 9808). The AWM have posted some more of their collection online and another mismatched number has surfaced. Photo E04941 shows a Mk V* female (WD No. 9890) with a starboard side male...
Enclosed photo shows US trucks in camoflage - looks similar to the artillery schemes. Does any one know how common it was to paint trucks this way? Did US trucks follow the RE colour schemes?
Another paper model is available at www.allfrompaper.narod.ru . This model is a Russo-Balt S24/40. The instructions at the site are all in Russian but the model looks to be fairly easy to assemble without them.
France is - quite understandably - one of the countries where the memory of the Great War is kept alive the best. I would say that some of the best magazines with WW1-material are to be found there. Even thought the language may be a problem for you, the photos and the art-work is often first rate. Here are...
...Has found out drawings which, possibly, can be useful for you... Excuse for quality - to magazines of 15 years of active use + bad quality of a paper (they were printed by handicraft way)
http://www.zshare.net/image/lastkristi-jpg.html
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Hi All,
For those who are interested, there are 30 profiles of British WWI tanks (including projects), on this website : www.batailles-blindes.com .
These drawings (made by Hubert Cance) are in 1/48th scale and available for free downloading !
The French magazine "Batailles et Blind?s" is...
Can any one out there provide answers to the following?
1. Were all tadpoles male? I've only seen pictures of male tadpoles (IV and V)
2. In Hermaphrodites (Composites) was there any handedness? Were male and female sponsons always on a particular side? -- Edited by Centurion at 19:11, 20...
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I am doing an extensive research project on German tank recovery operations during The Great War, and there use of Beute tanks. I know this subject was talked about awhile ago, But I am in search of photo?s of lifting jacks, lifting cranes, rail and veh...
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I have a side and plan view of the A10 chassis with engine and wheels, scale drawing but with no info on the scale they are drawn to. Can anybody supply some basic dimensions of this Albion so that I can work out the scale and then possibly have a go at scratchbuilding a 1/35 model...
Can anyone out there help out with any info regarding the interior colors of the A7V. I`ve seen pictures of the chassis without the hull.It seems to me that the steering compartment and gun mount etc are not painted in white which would have been logical . I guess at least the inside of the hull mus...
We don't have an off topic section for items that might be of interest or amusement (hint Peter hint) so I'm posting the following here - I found it on a US Navy site when I was following up a line of research on WW1 signalling and although its of the recent era I thought it might amuse.
An actual radio conv...
Lt Col Gerald Leachman was in command of British Middle Eastern Desert Operations in WW1. His area of command covered the Estern deserts of what is today Iraq, modern day Saudi and Syria. In fact from Karbala to Jeddah (T E Lawrence was under his command, although one would never know it from Law...
In the recent Forts thread there has been discussion as to when gas was first used in WW1. I?ve been looking at an interesting research paper produce after WW1 for the US Staff College on the subjec6t of gas warfare and gleaned the following interesting points:
Gas was banned as a weapon of war by th...
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I've found some interesting vehicles scratchbuilders might find challenging:
These constructions reveal the scarceness and unavailability of materiel to the
Axis-powers and the subsequent solutions to technical requirements during the end of WW1.
For the period...
The subject of the cover story of the July 1938 Popular Science is of "War Machines Go Midget".
It is a two page article.
Covered are an open-top two-man prone-driven "Mobile Machine Gun Nest" tankette, a one-man submarine, a flying armored car with detachable wings and a telescoping turre...
I notice that we have lost any capability to underline, italicise, embolden text or to alter the size ond character set of text. The menu/toolbar has gone! I don't know about anyone else but I find this a pain as its useful to highlight areas that are quotes from somebody else etc.
While I'm having a mo...
This is admittedly an obscure question but here goes...
How critical is weight distribution to a tanks steering ability? For example: Would a 508kg unbalance approximately 2.06m off the centre line of a 3.66m wide tank of a total weight of 28.95 tonnes affect it's manouverability?
Is anyone traveling to Bovington at some point in the near future? If so, any chance of taking digital photos of the Rolls Royce Armoured Car?
Kerry
nailcreek@hotmail.com
any chance of some pages dedicated to forts, their design, and weaponry? like the pop up guns, the turrets, etc.? forts like verdun played a major role, so why not?
I've come across a reference to the Canadians using lorry mounted trench mortars at 2nd Arras in 1918 but no other detail. Anybody know anything about this?
I have found a reference to a machine gun armoured vehicle designed and built by a M. Pretot (as a development of an idea by M. Breton) based on a Bajac Tractor in 1915. It seems that Messieurs Breton and Pretot then substituted tracks for the wheels of this vehicle but failed to gain any interest from the...
While digging around for some more info on the siege of Erzerum to expand on the stuff in my article on forts that Peter has just posted (shameless plug) I came across one of those one liners that excites interest but leaves one unsatisfied. In a list of Turkish artillery there is a reference to an armour...
