I found the attached image in an old German WWI book. To me it looks like the barrel of a large "kanone" (maybe about 20cm?) being installed into its firing carriage. The carriage looks very similar to that used in the "Big Bertha" 42cm heavy mortar. The caption seems to indicate th...
Hello Guys
I am looking for a comprehensive list of tank names used by the British on there tanks per each company, If any one can help I would be very greateful.
All the Best
Tim R
A quick general question here: When a Mk. I - V type tank threw a track, other than in battle conditions, were the crew able to effect repairs themselves or did this stop a tank until a repair crew could get to it? I know of the case of the crew of "Lusitania" obtaining a replacement mag...
It looks like Strelets WW1-effort will be all cavalry! As far as I can see, they have started work on several sets of German WW1 Cavalry and several sets of Russian WW1 Cavalry, and one could very be Austro-Hungarian Cavalry.
Gentlemen,
Does anyone know what the appropiate colour for painting a 194 mm Grand puissance Filloux SP GUN would be? I basically agree with Mr. Kempf in the fact that no photos of this SP exist but those with the gun sporting a single colour, I guess it would be LIGHT GRAY or some h...
Greetings all,
I'm new to the WWI scene, and admittedly I won't be using this set of figures for a WWI scene per se... but has anyone any experience with the ICM figure set "British Infantry (1917-1918)"? Opinions?
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I wrote this paper for my history class. You all know how interested I am in Edwin Wheelock and the Skeleton Tank, and I decided it was high time I assembled every shred of information I have ever come across into a coherent chronological paper.
Included, just for completions sake, are the current...
Hello everyone,
I just got a small packet from Cromwell with the following kits :
Mark VIII
Mark V*
Tank LK II
Fiat 3000
These are incredible models, very well done. however, there are some minus :
LK II : the interior of the track assembly part is completely filled of resin. I guess tha...
Ok guys here is 3 intriguing question.
1.Does any one have a census of how many Mk?s of every type was produced, how many were male and how many were female,also how many were converted into wireless, transport etc
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2. Are there any records concerning how many Gun Carri...
I've made a stab at an impression of the proposed St Chamond rhomboid tank based on the original outline drawing. Note the asymetric sponsons. Would make an interesting model, however warning the curve of the rhomboid is subtly different from the British Marks I to V so you can't just take an existing...
According to various manufacturers of 1/72 figures we can expect 2 lots of Americans, 5 of French infantry and/or artillery, 1 of Germans, and 1 of Italians in the near future.
In addition, Stelets seem to be on the brink of releasing what looks like German cavalry and another five sets of WW1...
I've recently gotten into WW1 bayonet collecting, and have been relatively succesful in getting examples in moderately good shape. Some countries are much harder to aquire specimens from than others though, and Ottoman bayonets have the added problem of widespread "shortening" during the thir...
Howdy All,
I was traipsing thru some of the 'old' threads in an effort to view some of the older discussions you chaps had here so I don't wind up maybe rehashing old yakkety-yaks, and came across a thread entitled something like "WWI modeling 'tipping point' ".
It was a great read indeed, and I en...
I enclose two pictures, both were originally taken and published in Sept 1916 and both are supposed to be Creme De Menthe - but they are obviously two different tanks. The male is shown on the Bovingdon web site as Creme and the Female comes from the US Library of Congress. I have a sintilla of doub...
Spotted the enclosed shot in a book this Tuesday. It looks like a MkI Female at Flers (or vicinity) with "the British Army cheering behind" but it isn't Creme de Menth or Dinaken (wrong sex) and that doesn't look like a high street. Just to add confusion and muddle looking at it through my best mag...
Hi all, is there anyone in here who could possibly help me, I've tried searching the internet but can't seem to find any decent picitures of the early mk1-5 8inch British howitzer. Hope someone can help.
I enclose a link to an article written by Robert Dunlop on Operation Hush.
http://www.1914-1918.net/BATTLES/hush/hush.htm
This landing (never carried out) seems to have significant planning put into it and there are some features that have a 1944 ring to them (like submarine recces of the p...
Hi gang!
Can any member help please in regard to plans/layouts/diagrams, etc of british 1stww period lorries? Reason i ask, is that i intend to start a project in regard to building a replica lorry!
Any help/pointers, would be very greatly appreciated!
Cheers!
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My first Mark II is ready for painting. The tracks went well with superglue and mud was added using tamiya putty.
Now to the paintjob...
I dont really have a clue about Mk IIs colour possibilities or decals, however, I have easy acess to Landship decals from 7thKompany.com, one of my usuall sh...
I have seen mention of a MkI experimentally fited up as a minesweeper. Apparently this consisted of suspending some form of electro magnet in front of the tank (presumably to lift mines out of the soil). One gathers that it didn't work. This predates the Mk V** fitted with mine exploding rollers. Does...
Latest previews on their WW1 Futures page seem to be Russian cavalry and German hussars (?)
PS: Sorry can't work out how to post the picture of Terry-Thomas, but you get the point.
Hello,
I have heard that Caesar has some WW1 Soldiers in 1/72, but have neither seen them in a store nor have I seen ever pictures of them.
Does anyone have info, review and/or photos of following Caesar kits?
H034 - WWI French Army H035 - WWI German Army
I would highly aprreciate that!
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Hello gentlemans,
My name is Francisco, I'm 22 and come from Lisbon, Portugal. I've been a modeller since I was 13 and usually build WWII related models, specially tanks and dioramas.
I've bought the Airfix Mk I after reading the excellent article on the site and because I tought it would be a...
What Uniforms did the British Forces wear in Palestine, Egypt and Mesopotamia in WW1 (specific 1916-18).
Did they wear special Tropical suits and/or their normal Western Front Tunics etc. And what headgear? Please I need some Information on this, best with some photos and/...
Hello, I'm Pedro Grilo from Portugal and in my workbench I have two models in build process, the truck Mack Bulldog and the Renault FT17 both from RPM.
My idea is to put the FT17 in the Mack, but I wouldn't like to make them both american (too much olive green). My idea was to make them both french.
So...
One firm with an interesting range of smallscale WW1 kits have been BK Modelcraft: among others they have sold kits of the Fahrpanzer, 25cm Minenwerfer, 21cm M?rser, field bakery, softskins etc. The problem was only, that BK Models have been VERY hard to get in touch with. They have withstood the tem...
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2. Are there any records concerning how many Gun Carri... 
Is there any new information about the BAKP 20?
thanks