The reference to The Somme - Crucible of the British Army on the subject of artillerymen's underwear made me get the book out for the first time in years, and, to my surprise, there's a picture of German weapons captured on July 1st: MG08, Russian Maxim, LMW, and . . . a Madsen.
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Hi all Although mainly a WWI railway enthusiast I have some books on other WWI topics. In one of them I have found this photo of what seems to be a Renault Porteur. It is not in the artillery section of Landships.
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Claus
Hello all Great War-specialists I'm currently researching the possibility to build some 1:35 French Pechot-railway wagons loaded with 370 mm. shells. I will have the shells cast for me in resin and need some information on their measurements. I have some information at the moment, but woul...
Does anyone have a source for information for the Minerva chassis etc. used for the 1914 Armoured Car? I do have a set of 1/76 scale plans from Tankette, but need additional information on the actual car used.
Thanks!
I enclose a photo of the Marienwagen II. The body is supposed to have been taken from an Ehrhardt armoured car but its simple flat sides do not match either the Ehrhardt 15 or the 17. Any one have an answer?
In 1914 the Armoured Car Corp was formed in New York, in November of that Year it announced that it would build a vehicle, based on a Federal truck chasis, 'to replace the cavalry on the modern battlefield'. One suspects they had an eye on a European market. I can find no evidence that the vehicle w...
I noticed in one of the excellent models pictured on this site a British gun crew with blue "under shirts". Was this standard? I will be modeling some 18prds soon that have crews with what looks like undershirts on and suspenders down. I think the blue would add some color and character.
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Many of us will have seen accounts of the first Germans to encounter British tanks and their reactions. I recently came across an eye witness description of the first British encounter with British tanks. (If this has a[ppeared in one of the books, such as the Tanks at Flers - my apologies - I hav...
I returned from a trip to St. Petersburg, Russia last week. If anyone is interested, I took photos of some of the outside exhibits, including the one attached, described as an Armstrong 127mm cannon.
Has anyone had a chance to look at the 1/25 scale "Modelik" Mark V Male paper card model? Is it accurate in outline?
It might be fun to blow it up on a copier to 1/16th and transfer it to sheet plastic ...
Comments from those who know???
Among the various odds and ends I perused on a visit to the archives at the Bovington Tank Museum recently was the attached oddity (or set of oddities, mostly attached so as not to cause problems for those with dialup). A set of drawings was dropped off one day with David Fletcher, with very little expla...
I was just cruising google, inputing different image searches and sifting through the results. I am sure you guys have seen a lot of this, but I found it very interesting.
Polish site:
http://w4u.am.lodz.pl/~piokas/texty/pkpol.html
Bottom of the page, there is a really str...
I know the British, Portuguese and US. The French had their on version. Did the Italians or any one else use it?
Thanks!
Chris
BTW - I want to thank everyone who has responded to my silly little questions. This group is fantastic!
I've found an interesting picture so I'll post it here. I don't know what is it.. I would appreciate if someone could translate the text (I don't even know which language is it). This picture was under Patton's quote about "Moving fort and trench destroyer" (quote is already on this forum).
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As the topic title says, I would like to ask permission from the group if we could extend the finish date of the 1st official GROUP BUILD here at Landships.
As some of you know, I am the guilty party who started this whole thing and have been wholly impressed by the efforts of th...
I found this information: "1918-09 le Verguier, France Dummy tanks used successfully by the 4th Australian Division in the attack on le Verguier in 1918-09. These tanks (10 in number) were made by the 4th Field Company Australian Engineers entirely of wood & canvas. They were camouflage painted & e...
Hi, I need some information about these vehicles, which were built by C. L. Best Tractor Company:
The Best 75
The Best 75 Tracklayer (or CLB 75)
I know only this:
The Best 75 was built early 1917 and had wire-cutter and just one steel wheel (right side of the picture)
CLB 75 - built in 1916. It...
When digging around trying to find details of the 150 ton field monitor I came across two seperate items that tickled my curiosity
"In 1916, the plans for the US 1500 ton Landship had it being modular. The hull, Twin gun turret(two 6 inch naval howitzers), Drive Train/tracks(Each track was t...
Centurion's doing a sterling job of compiling a list (and gallery) of armoured cars that might have been - near misses, if you like.
I thought it might be fun to have the far misses, designs that didn't stand a chance.
Culled from the wacky world of the patent office, I give you John Carvalho Lobato'...
I found this photo of an Uberlandwagen fitted with two artillery pieces on swiveling platforms. Was this a one off or was the A7V not the only German tracked combat machine to see service?
http://www.colitz.com/site/1392095/1392095.htm
Presuambly it also exterminated (but couldn't go upstairs) -- Edited by Centurion at 13:12, 2006-04-07-- Edited by Centurion at 15:40, 2006-04-07
Is anyone out there willing to comment on what is going on in the attached photo? My first impression was that this gun is way too heavy for it to be lifted this way. Anyway, I would appreciate it if the vehicles could be identified also.
Thanks
Jon
Hi
I just recieved the maquette 1/35 Russian cavalry 1/35
and it is real shame, the box art shows a WWI russian cavalry officer, while the kit gives you generic, poorly molded horses and cavalry men that lack all the specific characteristics of WWI cavalry, the kit doesnt even have lances!
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I've come across details of what purports to be a heavy German Armoured car dating from 1921. I thought they were not allowed such vehicles at this time. The beast is twin turreted and the designation given is
Gepanzerter Kraftwagen (sd.kfz 3) Schupo- Sonderwagen 1921. My German is pretty non exis...
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As the topic title says, I would like to ask permission from the group if we could extend the finish date of the 1st official GROUP BUILD here at Landships.
As some of you know, I am the guilty party who started this whole thing and have been wholly impressed by the efforts of th...