I had always thought that de Mole had made his submission for a 'tank' before WW1 started and this had been lost in the labyrinthine coils of the War Office's archives but in following up some research on Central Workshops and other matters I find that although de Mole's original drawings were i...
Here is an interesting softskin. A British Daimler mobile military cinema. The poles and canvas strapped to the side presumably can be errected to form an outside movie screen, the back of the lorry becomes the projectionist's room and the motor generates the necessary electricity.
Did any othe...
Due to the large selection of ft-17 kits available at RPM, I was interested in finding out a bit more on the "smoke variant" when was it made? and how many were produced?
Also could someone make a good list of all the wars the ft-17 or a form of it fought in and/or all the nations that had it or a variant...
I think I've managed to piece together some definite reasons why those stories of Soviet Mk Vs used in WW2 are in the main legends and myths.
In 1930 a series of international disarament conferences were held in Geneva. They concluded that heavy tanks were "instruments of agression" and all peace l...
After riding in a motor torpedo boat around 1903, a Austrian Oberleutenant named Gunther Burstyn got a great idea. Why not try to build a sort of land-torpedo-boat?
After much thought and contemplation, Burstyn patented a design for an unheard of vehicle design in 1911.
It was quite revolu...
I have heard some time ago that an example of this KuK morser is displayed in the military museum in Prague; along with a host of other artillerie items from all periods. I recall seeing a glimpse of what I believed to be the beast in the back ground of a photograph some months ago. Can anyone confir...
Some time ago I posted a fragment of an eyewitnes account of tanks at Flers firing on their own side. I've now found the full account. Bert Chaney was a nineteen-year-old signal officer. The last paragraph would make a nice diorama.
"We heard strange throbbing noises, and lumbering slowly towards...
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I it have not to mountain of hulk full records still and therefore I work over model slowly - as yet I altered colour and painted tactical signs . I think that it should be well ..
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Not really WWI but this howitzer where still in juse at that time.
I am scratch building in scale 1:35 the Japanese 28 cm siege howitzer, as used in the Russo Japanese war in 1904-05.
The model started with the Pit-Road white metal kit, but it is not so accurate... So I scratch build the gun...
While looking through the AWM website, I found a photo of a Mk IV wireless tank in action. It's a small photo but definitely shows a female Mk IV with the crew erecting an aerial. To see the photo, go to the AWM website, click on "Collection Databases", click on "Collections Search", then click on "Advan...
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I have decided, while waiting to get to the AWM in Canberra, to enter the group build. As I've left myself a lot less time, I decided on a reasonably fast build; a Mk. II supply tank based on Airfix's Mk. I/II/III. In spite of the build advice on this site (thanks David), I think the appearance of t...
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Good thing is that I was able to climb it, so some angles are bit unusual. Sometimes the fingers of yours truly are included, but I hope you won?t mind?
Hope you?ll enjoy it as much as I enjoyed it doing it for you?
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I have found some photos of Mark V's in Estonian service... if someone interested...
Six Mk V Composite heavy tanks were sent to Estonia in 1919 from the UK. They were named "Brown Bear", "Brown Bear II", "Captain Cromie", "Deliverance", "First Aid" and "White Soldier". Estonians transfered a...
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During the ?unditching rails campaign? (see earlier thread) I have found a number of issues/queries related to the rear ?turrets? (cupola) on the Mks V and V* to which I can find no answer(s). I therefore pose them and having done so stand well back.
The first Mk V*s...
This photo looks like the Imperial Portaloo (mobile john for American viewers) but the little text attached (in a language sufficiently like French for me to make some of it out) says its Franz Ferdinand inspecting a Daimler armoured car.
Here are a few pics of my first "serious" bit of Armour - I'm normally a figure modeller...
This is the Emhar 1/35 Whippet. I've used selected parts from the Airwaves PE set, like the pistol ports, and handles. I decided not to replace the engine air intake with those provided in the PE set - re...
Has anyone had trouble getting Landship decals from T & T? I ordered the Mk I-III and Mk IV set back in February and haven't had anything yet. I emailed Milan Vins and he said he was waiting on the Mk IV set, but that was at the end of March.
Hallo friends! I just had a day off and I went to the museum and took some pictures for you. Here are just some of the picks, but in the following days I?ll post walkarounds in following posts I?ll send. Here is a good pick of 305 and the carriage (the carriage, I don?t remember if I had seen it before (sorr...
As time passes, we all get older ... and many of us have some pretty rare and valuable books, etc. My experience is that my kids have different interests and I would hate to see my collection be throw out or auctioned off via an estate sale.
So ... what to do? How do you go about figuring out w...
Here goes the carriage of Skoda 305mm
I took photos of German 7.7, Russian 122, Italian 149, Italian 75, Skoda 305 and something else but I am not sure what it is. There are several more guns, but I can not approach those for now. There is a reconstruction going on, but I hope that the photos wou...
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It pretended to Mark several things V thanks you me to afford --- soon the end of building ... Hulk how to be visible partly it is finished - several the most difficult details became -.
The whole upper part of model will be cast from resin ...
..I think that in fortnights you will see fin...
Sometimes you see reproductions of WWI propaganda posters, and I had always wanted some quality copies.
http://www.artsnotdead.com/
"Art's Not Dead" is a really good reproducer that offers their posters in full size paper, or canvas. They have a fair selection, and while a...
Years ago when I was building a Mk V* the pictures I was using showed a tank with asymmetric unditching rails ( a kink in one side not replicated on the other). I always wonderd if this was a one off. Today I find a photo (not Mk V* this time) of another tank with the same irregularity. Anyone got any ex...
The subject of the use of correct colours has recently surfaced in several threads. As this is a topic I've seen repeated in relation to both model soldiers and WW1 model aircraft I've dug out and slightly revised an old item I did on this subject. If this proves to be 'teaching grandmothers to suck eggs...
If you want to model a thrown track on a Mk IV, you probably need to come up with a drive sprocket, idler and rollers. One idea for the running gear is to kidnap it from Airfix's Churchill tank in 1/76. The sprocket is easy to convert to an idler simply by grinding the teeth off and detailing and just d...
Some time ago I saw an article, with photo, about a WW II Home Guard unit that renovated a WW1 tank (possibly one of those distributed as a form of memorial to many town centres in 1919) and 'scrounged' some old 6 pounders from the Navy and put it into service guarding ( I think) some dockyards. This...
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