I have two mystery pieces from this Museum I can't properly identify. One is a 380 mm mortar. It looks like an heavy trench mortar from WW I, but the label says it dates to 1910... Then we have this gun, a De Bange from 1889:
Hi Guys Just found this website which has drawings and technical information on a stack of French artillery. I do not know if this has been posted before but here it is; http://www.fortiffsere.fr James
Can anybody provide information on what type of 6 inch howitzer this battery was equipped with at the outbreak of WW1 and by what means it was transported when in action in France/Belgium in 1914.
Hi People! Last month I was in the modell contest of Bron (France) and I meet a guy who produce new figs in the WW1 area : "war and peace figs". There are yet two characters : A Scottish officer from ARGYLL and SUTHERLAND reg 1915/1916 : The second one is especially interesting to me : a French Chasseur...
I wonder if anyone could offer me any guidance as to an available colour matching the green that the BEF used on its heavy artillery (60 pounders) during the Great War? Thanks.
Takom MkIV Female depicted as a Beutepanzer, one of the few fitted with MG08s in the front casemates. Yes, I realise the lack of unditching rails may be incorrect and/or controversial, but I wanted something a little different from my other 2 MkIVs. And as the Germans understood the terrain limita...
Here a photo of the Daimer KD-1 (Seilwinde fuer Fesselballone). Does anybody have some more photos of this particular vehicle?Here the link to the interesting thread in t...
I am not a fan of colourised photo's. I know that there are some skilled people who can do a good job of colourising but it is not my sort of thing. However I have come across a website which uses software to automatically colourise. https://colourise.sg It cannot reproduce the real colours but can...
I've just been reading a very detailed account of the action at V-B. It seems that the 14 A7Vs were taken by rail from Charleroi to the front, then unloaded and taken "a short distance" to the village of Wiencourt-l'Équipée, about 4km from the front line. What interests me is: where exactly were they un...
Citizens! Remember this entertaining and informative discussion about the Tank Malvomahttps://landships.activeboard.com/t50646898/mark-v-female-question-for-identification-of-the-vehicle/
There are a lot of WW1 photo's in the National Archives, many being of tanks. These are of good quality and big, really big. Below are links to just a few that I have found, some are well known. These photo's are too big to post here, the images below are just thumbnails. To open the original photo follow...
Finally, after many years of questions & detective work - mostly on 'here', with the invaluable assistance of fellow members, I've lifted the lid on my first WW1 kit. The origins of Supply Tanks and the debates surrounding their conversion are well enough documented elsewhere on the forum - by f...
American Photographers going into battle lines on a British Army Tank. Sgt Morris and Pvt Persse, somewhere between Villeret and Bellicourt. France. Photographer: Pvt E. J. Peter. Location: France. Date September 29, 1918. NARA Ref#: 111-SC-24534
I've just come across this rather disturbing reference in a bibliography: Swinton, Ernest D., 'Tanks', in The Encyclopaedia Britannica: The New Volumes, vol. iii (London & New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 12th edn, 1922), pp. 677 - 98. This is terrifying. I might be wrong here, but it soun...
G'day all, In the absence of the Matador Models modification kits (unless Michel from Black Lion Decals can get some for me next week at Folkestone), I am looking at making some 3D Shapeways prints of Mark IV Male, Female and Tender sponsons for the Airfix kit both extended and retracted/folded for ra...
I've visited the Museum and I failed to identify a few pieces. Any help would be appreciated: [url=https://flic.kr/p/2ddmw9u]Unidentified british howitzer[/...
hi I‘m new to modelling but would love to scratch build Great War trucks, armoured cars etc. does anyone know of a supplier of wheels to suit this period? I am interested in 1:72, 1:35 and 1:32 scales. Thank you for your kind attention cheers John
on youtube I found the following videos on getting dressed: Getting dressed WW I the British soldier getting dressed the VAD nurse getting dressed WW I the young woman getting dressed in a 1914 fashion note there are other getting dressed videos on various periods in history
I won't make a habit of spamming book info here but I figured people might be interested to see the following two books from FWD Publishing. Robert Macfie covers one of the least known and temporary members of the Landships Committee from WW1. The American born Robert Macfie including some bio, his ba...
This is from the book "American Military vehicles of WW I" Albert Mroz Page 26 FWD trucks on there way to England painted grey were unloaded from trains and painted green and sent to the US Army on the Mexican border after the March 1916 raid by Pancho Villa on Columbus New Mexico when the US Army really n...
Fantastic Clyno Motorcycle combination, as used by the Motor Machine Gun Corps, and due to be released in 1/76 scale by WD Models later this year, which i've been waiting years for! [IMG]https://i282.photobu...
Clark Model announced today that they intend to develop a 1/16 scale Mk IV Male, something I've wanting to see for years. Not sure yet if it will be kit &/or RTR tank, I have Takom FT-17 which I'm currently converting to RC so this is a plus. If you don't know Clark, they are a major supplier of RC tank &a...
