I recently found some nice artillery images on eBay that I can't find a reference for. The gun shown seems to have a carriage identical to the French 280mm Mortier M1914/16 by Schneider, but it looks like a "canon" with a longer more slender barrel. Can anyone shed some light?
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I was wondering if anyone could tell me if there are any 1:72 scale french mortars? I was thinking the mortar from Hat's russian heavy weapons set (the 58mm FR mortar), however I do not know much about this subject? Thanks!
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Hello, I'm planning to build a MGM Ehrhardt in Polish service. I found two vague photo's of it in Polish books, showing an inscription on the side: Pulkownik Kazimierz Grudzielski. I couldn't figure out the exact colour of the vehicle; a drawing in one of the books shows the vehicle in light grey, but o...
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I have just come in to possession of two rare pictures, I was told they may be the elusive Krupp Armoured Limber?? of 1918. I am not sure, some of the uniforms look German, but others seem different. Any idea??????????
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With the slow demise of the Belgian branch of Tracks & Troops the main source (at least for me and my compatriots ) of the superb Italian kits of Mr Panzer and Il Principe Nero has closed down. (But hopefully Milan Vins new upgraded Tracks & Troops will soon be operational.)
But now I just want...
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I am currently looking for information on Russian Heavy Artillery, I have looked high and low, all over the net, book stores, And I can only find a small handfull of information. I would appreciate any help.
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I ordered a pair of Mark IV Females (1/72) and was working around a diorama idea in my head. I was thinking of showing a pair of Beutepanzers advancing in conjunction with infantry. Couple of questions:
1. Are there any pictures of this or descriptions of how they were used by the Germans tact...
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I've recently shifted my modeling interests into WW1 artillery and armor, and, due to that, found out your fantastic site, wich has been a tremendous source of ideas and references for me.
A few months ago, a friend of mine gave me 2 MGM kits, the Austro Daimler artillery tractor, plus...
Well, as you know from the French rail road guns thread, I recently acquired a copy of John Batchelor & Ian Hogg's excellent (out of print) 'Rail Guns'. It covers only America, France, Britain and Germany, so no Italian or Russian artillery I'm afraid! However, those four nations were the main pr...
Tracks'n'Troops have a list of WW1 figures by MGM, including 2 German Tank Crews and a Communications Team, but there are no pictures of them on the site. Does anyone have any pics?
This is excellent website about Austro-Hungarian Army, especially artillery, unfortunetely in Ukrainian (yes, the letters are Russian-like) but here is table of the guns with calibers with links to the particular articles. Site is full of photos!
http://austro-hungary.iatp.org.ua/arms...
Hello Every One, I ran across some French Rail Gun drawings, and some information I thought might be of some interest.
1.Materiel de 274 Mle 87 ou 93 sur affut truc a glissement.
A typical example of the Schneider sliding mount, showing the heavily reinforced trunnion bearings. the jacks to lowe...
I have seen this photo of a monster French railway gun, here (http://www.worldwar1.com/pharc005.htm):
Note the monstrous recoil cylinders, which give it an incredibly aggressive appearance! Now, at first I thought it might have...
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Wespe Models is a Romanian firm who specialise in WW2 subjects in a variety of scales from 1/24 to 1/87: http://www.wespemodels.ro/
However, they do a couple of items of interest to Great War devotees, especially these very nice St Chamond railway gun kits:
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Below are links to images I have collected of two types of large guns that seem to be from the same family. They seem to have identical carriages with wide metal wheels with web spokes (that look British to me). They have very short recoil mechanisms, and one version seems to...
I have been collecting images of WWI guns for a few years, and have found several which seem to show fairly large French guns from the same "family". These images are shown/linked below. The guns seem to have the same carriage, which apparently is moved on specially constructed rails.&...
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I am looking for any information on Lawrence's Rolls Royce {BLUE MIST}. I would really love to see more pictures, I have one were the vehicle is in Wadi Ithm. It looks like it has the standard Rolls front tires, with dual rear tires, in the form of artillery stock.
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Can anyone answer these questions: What was the colour of the german home-made trench mortars in the begining of the positional war? Were these primitive and makeshift weapons (mechanical projectors, the so-called "earth mortar" or the Genter Mortar) painted with a standard colour or w...
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I was just going through some pictures in my collection, and found these 3 pictures of some drawings of the first British tank design used in combat according to the terrified German soldier's that drew them. These pictures are like the one in (The German A7V Tank by Hundleby &...
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I am interested in any info on how the half track parformed and how good it was and wee did it actually fight?
as for the Keergese chassis were they used on any other viehcles?
I've seen pictures of this armored car before, but I didn't realise it was this widespread!
It is a presumption, but I suspect that if this vehicle was important enough to become an image on a postcard, it must have been fairly significant in the USA.
Does anyone have any information?
As f...
After considering a number of projects I think I'd like to scratch build a Austria-Hungary 8cm M05 field gun in 1/72 scale featured by the excellant photos in Peter's Landship's Artillery section. [I hoped to do a US 75mm M1902 Ehrhardt but lack enough detail photos, pa...
