I am presently working on creating a replacement driver/commanders cupola (width corrected, rivet detail etc, etc) and a ‘roof’ with the circular access and riveted joints corrected etc (with thanks to Mk1 Nut and all the work she has done). My prototype print indicated a need to increase the size...
I am looking for additional information about the Prussian Krupp 8cm C/1867 and C/1864/67 plus the export variant to the Ottoman Empire and Romania. I have attached photos of two 8cm tubes with 1868 dates that appear to be very similar to the standard Prussian 8cm C/67, however, there are differenc...
So I have been working on this project for a couple of months, I just wanted to post some project photos so far. I started this project because I have always been interested in how a WW1 tank functioned and operated.
Years ago i bought an issue of "le Miroir" showing a very strange american tank... I was very happy to find a ref on Tank encyclopedia and a booklet about this vehicle presented on landship I immediately bought: https://landships...
I have restarted work on my Emhar kits (see previous thread) and added another one to build at the same time. My idea is to make a base with 2 tanks, most probably 505 "Baden I" and 507 "Cyklop" for which decals are provided on the kit and there's no great deal of modifications to be done. Here's so far wha...
A Minerva, one of the four captured by the Germans and pressed into service by them, being worked on. As is usual with these things one person is doing the work while others look on and no doubt give advice. -- Edited by fidgeh on Sunday 26th of May 2024 11:30:26 AM-- Edited by fidgeh on Sunday 26th of...
Hello guys, long time since I have posted. As I continue with my WW1 Landship research project, I have been stumped on a few things regarding the reparability of the Mk.IV and other tank models. Looking at the Mk.I - Mk.IV, I have seen photos where the engine cover would be sitting outside while a crewma...
Hello Does anybody know of a kit for a 1/35 tank engine of the WW1 era? Preferably a Daimler Knight, but some sort of generic example would do. Alternatively I have a 3d resin printer, are there any .stl or .obj files out there that can be utilised? Any information would be much appreciated.
Hi all I just started working on the Roden Holt 75 artillery tractor It's a short run kit, and every single piece should be cleaned up, detailed or replaced😅 I didn't went so deep in that, on the other hand I tried to make it better, at least a bit, starting from the engine.
A quote from Winston Churchill, giving evidence at, I think, Bede Bentley's 1925 claim for having invented the tank. I was sure I'd made a note of this, but I can't find it now. Churchill was asked if anyone else could claim to have invented the tank. Churchill's reply was something like: "I think Mr. H....
Hello, Here's one of my latest work in progress and as the title says it all, it is the massive MkVIII 1919 heavy tank. My model is in the large 1/16 scale and is full scratch except for the ball mg mounts that are in 3D. It is now ready for the final paint jobs after I added the unit insignia. All the building d...
Hello lads, i recently found out about the "Models" page on landships.info, and i just had to try it. I actually wanted to do the St. Chamond first, but as the title of the post suggests, i have never done any modelling in my life and the St. Chamond just looked too hard to put together so i picked the A7V Now...
Hi all, This is my first post in this forum. Sorry for my bad english. Could someone help me to identify these heavy guns? Images from Ebay. The first photo: According to photocaption it is a 28cm coastal howitzer on the Belgian coast, but what model?? The second photo: I guess it's some sort of heavy art...
This is the link for the recent restoration of the German 10,5cm lFH 1898/09 in the collection. I am still missing the firing pin/bolt carrier so it is not firing yet but aside from that everything including elevation, traverse, spade, sliding wedge breech and brakes are back in a functional state....
I have just added the English translation of Bruchmuller's work "Die Artillerie bieim Angriff im Stellungskreig" to the Research and Resources page of Lovett Artillery. I hope you enjoy this. Artillery_in_the_Offensive_GB.pdf (lovettartillery.com) -- Edited by Ralph Lovett on Thursday...
Do we know about this? Opened four years ago this month, and rather spectacular. The Great War not neglected. This is the Museum's very swish website: https://rtm.jo/ However, Tripadvisor shows 129 photos of the building and the vehicles, including 2 WWI replicas: https://www.tripadvisor.co....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCqav31U72s&t=113sThe story is simplified a bit for our audience. The reaction has been quite staggering as it has a...
I'm working with a very talented modeller on a couple of articles on Thresh steam disinfectors mounted on the back of Foden Steam trucks to treat uniforms and bedding of troops to kill lice and fleas. WW1 was the first major war in which deaths from disease were lower than combat casualties due to adva...
Does anyone know what has happened to Barry? I had details of a book about the railways in the Palestinian Campaign, where his father served on the light railways, that may have interested him. I knew he was closing up the business, but he seems to have disappeared? Regards, Chris
I don't think that I showed this build here before. I added plastic strips to a Mk.IV Female from Emhar. The Royal Navy used one Mk.IV tank to tow airships. A part of the airship would be nice but I don't know how to attach it and getting the tank built is a challenge enough. But at least I have finished the...
Bernard Plumier, who runs the website passioncompassion1418.com, recently sent me an image of a Bombarda da 400mm mortar which he saw in a museum in Rio de Janiero. I have no idea how it got there. The carriage looks somewhat different from images of the Bombarda da 400 in WW1 - perhaps it was intended...
In 2022 I noticed that the Imperial War Museum website mentioned an item labelled “KRUPP ARMOUR AND ARMAMENTS TESTING” Catalogue number GWY64. Section iii contained “..A small group of civilians and officers watch the trials of the Leichte Kampfwagen 1 prototype…”.I got in touch with the IWM and t...
i had a grandfather who fought with pershing in the mexican border expedition (1916) and then went to england and france in the 301st heavy tank battalion, 27th division, american II corps. is there a place where i can find records of his service?
Does anyone have decent references on the above? So far I have: 12 Battalion Tank Regiment was part of occupying force in Cologne from mid-1919. That's it. Is there any more info?
Stumbled across this newspaper coverage of manoeuvres in 1908. Hornsby tractor is pulling trailer, both on caterpillar tracks. The trailer is mounting a dummy gun, as IIRC suggested by Major Donohue of the MTC. I'm sure I've seen another shot of the trailer-mounted gun but can't remember where. An...
I had a broken .pdf of the plates from the manual/handbook of the BL 12-inch howitzer and have recently managed to retrieve the images. Does anyone know of a downloadable copy of the manual/handbook? There is a hard copy in the IWM library but that's a fair distance from me. Landships II doesn't have a...
