Hello to all, after visiting this forum anonymously from time to time, I just registered, because this, i think, is the most probable place to have my questions answered. Two of my Grandgrandfathers died on the western front in 1915/17 and since 2009 - my first trip to Belgium - I have developed an ever...
Just released. An earlier version of the Ford T ambulance. A British version would be nice (are you listening, ICM?) And a Standard B LIberty truck. May there be many more like this. Please.....
I'm wondering if only AWS & Potz &Sand made ammunition for the 20mm Becker Cannon? I've been looking for a HE round and I'm wondering if they made only 3; the HE, Incendiary and Armor piercing bullet? Cheers Dickster
A pic of a fowler B5 Armored tractor I built about a year ago. It is a model from Jacek Bernas (J B Models) It is rated as a simple build but for someone just starting in card modeling it still had it's problems but I think the finished article is ok. There are apparently trailers to go with the model, does any...
Hi New to the Forum and hop you Can Help. I'am Currently building the Takom Mk.I Male and would Like to Know where the Attachment Points are For the Sponson Crane Supports. If there is a Drowing showing their location it would be wonderful. I'am not even sure the Takom Supports are Correct. Hope...
Made an unexpected visit to Bovington at the weekend. Will send some reports shortly. It's changed a bit since I was last there, and the layout has been altered. You have to leave the WWI hall by a different route, and can't get to where the A7V was last time. One of the guides told me it's being kept in the c...
Just been notified of this by Queensland Museum shop:On the 20th of July a brand new comprehensive Mephisto book will be released. It’s about 320 pages of information and an A4 size. It will sell for about $50 Australian. This is being released to coincide with the 100 year anniversary of the tank's ca...
I saw a reference to the barrel of the 220mm L Mle 1917 Schneider gun being treated with autofrettage in GBM and wondered how many other WW1 artillery pieces had their barrels made from steel tube which had been autofrettaged - anyone know? For the uninitiated autofrettage is a process where a steel t...
New model from Wayne McCullough - free download on Landships II. The images are from a beta model build of a Mark V* assigned to the US Army 301st Bn. Regards, Charlie -- Edited by CharlieC on Tuesday 31st of July 2018 11:45:28 AM
Hello, Does anyone know the dimensions (length, height, width) of the Skoda 30.5cm Mörser M.16? Also its rate of fire? I have seen 2-4 rounds per minute (seems high) and one round evry four minutes. That is quite a disparity in rates of fire. Regards, Marc -- Edited by MLW on Thursday 5th of July 2018...
It's worth going back to Gallica to see what they've added - found the regulations for the Schneider 280mm howitzer SPG... gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9668769t Lots of drawings of the gun vehicle components. Charlie
I caught the end of "The Travel Show" on BBC last night, next week's includes a 'Laurence of Arabia' experience in Jordan, it's on iPlayer if anyone is interested, but hopefully next weeks will have more. A couple of screen shots below. Hopefully there will be better pictures next week, but the whee...
In the Osprey book "Armored Units of the Russian Civil war Red Army" page 45 there is picture of a painting of the battle of Kakhovka October 1920. It was painted by Ivan A Vladimirov who has a number of other paintings of the Russian Revolution and Civil war periods. Some are online look up painting of I...
I just recently found out that Comberg makes 1/72 scale Russian artillery pieces and Free Time Hobbies sells them. I am buying the following: G7204 Russian 6" Siege gun Model 1877 G7205 42 line (106.7) siege gun model 1877 G7207 6 " fortress gun model 1904 I should have post a message on this site abou...
Quite an interesting question on Quora: "How can I get a list of ships that transported the tanks in WW1?" Don't know why he/she wants it, but I assume that will include those via Southampton, the ferries from Richborough, and, of course, those sent to Gaza. Anyone know where to start?
http://www.milweb.net/webvert/a3237/93871 Great if you have the money, even better if you have the drawings to build your own. Anyone know who built it. -- Edited by BC312 on Thursday 12th of July 2018 05:12:42 PM
Hello, I have recently decided to undertake a new project of building large scale model of a Mark IV tank, by machining all parts myself manually and with some CNC parts. I have been a hobbyist machinist for some years now and have the skills to do it, though I am lacking any real reference material, only...
Howdy, In skimming through the Beinecke photo archives at Yale's website I came across photos of a large armored car, apparantly on the US/Mexican border ca. 1914.? Does anyone know anything about it and what service it saw? Take a look here:? AC1 AC2 MarkV
I have recently learned that the first nation to adopt roundels for aircraft identification was France, in 1912. Germany later used the Tatzenkreuz, often wrongly called a Maltese Cross. This is it: As we know, it was applied to aircraft and tanks, and then superseded on both by the Balkenkreuz, whi...
A7V Gretchen was used in a the making of a propaganda film at Sachy training ground in October, 1918. The title, I am told, was Die Abwehrschlacht (The Defensive Battle). Does it exist? Anyone know anything?
recently I got by ILL the book "Gulaschkanone The German Field Kitchen in WW II and Modern Reenactment" by David L Thompson who bought and restored a German WW II era field kitchen. It has also sorts of info on its operation accessories, recipes ect. Note the German WW I field kitchen was almost identi...
Dear members, My grandfather bought for his transportation firm a Hansa Lloyd Truck, which was used in WW1. I only have some photo's on which the truck itself is not very good to be seen. I would appreciate any photo's from a Hansa Lloyd as used in the War. I hope you are able to help me. Enclosed the only pi...
Posted on the Axishistory forum, but I guess there are some folks here who might be able to help. No information, just two pics. Could be some German WW1 era prototype or modification.
As I mentioned, went to Bovington last week. Quite a few changes since I was last there, which wasn't that long ago. There's a new/additional layout, some new exhibits, information, etc, covering quite a few topics. If anyone fancies the idea, I'll do a few posts on the Forum, a topic at a time. With pho...
