Does anyone know what the release hook looks like and its exact location behind the drivers cab for the chains holding Fascines on Mark IV tanks and Cribs on the Mark V's. From studying photographs it appears the chains holding the Crib on Mark V tanks are attached to a release mechanism somewhere ce...
I was talking with some friends about modern barbed wire and was trying to illustrate why concertina wire needed pickets to stop it just being crushed easily with blankets etc and a google search led to the British Pathe. I watched this footage a couple of times and I think I see Patent resin impregnati...
I never had seen fascines in or better after use. The only photos I know are those attached on the Tank, either for transport, or ready to use. Do you maybe have photos about them after use, means in a trench? Or even in training purpose? I wonder, how the following tank could cross them, according to the b...
I just wonder, at most of the pictures available there are no Lewis MG attached to the Male Sponsons. This may be because they're boken or not in active use while photographed?! 1) So I like to know, where they attached just before getting in combat? 2) Was it usual to attach all 3 MG (also the front MG, bet...
I can't see it on this forum so I report the link Model by Tom Morgan. Full credit to him. Some help reported from Landship Forum.http://www.network54.com/Forum/110741/thread/1509457669/last-1509715269/View+Thread
Were the small vision "slits" (not the round ones) open? It seems that some are closeable from the innerside, but the ones on the sponsons are just slits (not closeable)? I'd seen several camouflage paintings to hide them against enemy fire, but I didn't found good material from inside views.
Does anyone have access to a real riveted Berliot or US made riveted turret? I am trying to determine how the armor plates butted against each other with the angle. I think the armor was 5/8" and if flat plates there would have been a significant gap that does not seem to be acceptable. Was the back port...
Hello to all! Famous model maker from Miass, Alexander Rogozin, began serial production of models under the his own 'Early Armour Models' brand. His first kits - two correction sets for Takom Mk.I and full kit of 'Vezdehod' (all terrain vehicle) of Alexandr Porohovschikov. Scale 1/35, material - r...
Hello all, i am looking for the kit realization of the Char Saint Chamond according to original drawings.Does anyone know if they still exist?I thank you in advance.Best regardsAndi
The first page of parts is attached.? This is still in the early stages, so the camo might not match at the edges yet.? I'll add parts numbers and make instructions, later.
I am new to this forum and would like to begin research into a relatiive's military service. Starting out, all I have is the information from his 'veteran's tombstone' and no living relatives to substantiate it. Here is what I found on the tombstone: Nick Ricupero Pennsylvania PVT, C...
I have been going through the extensive tank lists on Landships (THANK YOU FOR THESE!) and am confused by two entries: MK V No. 9027 is listed as "J41" in the 10th Batn, commanded by Lt. Gatter Leach on 08 Aug 1918 Mk V No. 9265 is listed as "J41" in the 10th Batn. commanded by 2nd Lt. Oddy, CG on 09 Aug 1918 Mk...
I attach a photo of what appears to be a MK I with a silencer. The tank nearest the camera has the round ended track tensioner openings (see enlargement) but there is a cladded slencer rather than the direct exhaust openings.
The other tanks are Mk IIs or later (given that they appear to have HMLS names...
Found an image of the surviving Schneider CD of the driver's controls. Would anyone like to state an opinion on the functions of all these levers? I guess the throttle, or perhaps the spark advance/retard is on the front wall of the driver's compartment and the track brakes are the two pedals on the fl...
Hello dear all, I have a question regarding marking on the front of the MKV* in the French army. I suspect that on the 9907 is the colors of the French flag – Blue, white and red. However, it is not clear for me for 10003. It is just white stripe or also flag.I want to build the 10003 model that is why I am aski...
There might be some interest in this..... The World of Tanks people and a Ukranian (?) cardmodel publisher have a joint project running to develop a highly detailed 1/25 cardmodel Latil TAR truck. The early screenshots look very impressive and the detail looks to be up there with the MBA S-65 and Ko...
I recently built Bryan Tan's K-Wagen, and thought I'd share a few photos of the completed model. If a card model file isn't locked, I always like to perform a little Photoshop work to individualize the finished product, and this one was no exception. In this case, what you see is a full re-texturing of t...
Last summer I had a great opportunity to visit the Armeemuseum's field artillery collection in Thun (Switzerland) This display is only visible upon request. A selection of pictures is available on Flickr On the very same hall I saw a bunch of WW I minenwerfer and trench guns that were tested by the Swi...
A great day. After years of mulling it over and promising it would be done, the project officially started today with MarkV cutting out the vertical armor for the FT. This armor is made to FT dimensions from an actual FT so it should be pretty close. As you can see the front "cap" is a biatch and the rear ca...
the pictures of K-wagen scale model, where is the source? I mean the reference like book or album I can’t find where the pictures come from I found one source of pic but thats all is there any information about the reference?
For those of you interested.. i just picked up the book, just a good read if you're interested.Tanks and Trenches: First Hand Accounts of Tank Warfare in the First World War (Military series)Hardcover– January, 1995 by David Fletcher
Has there been a list of Mark V and V*s shipped to the USA during and after the War? Just brushing through my files, this is what I have recorded:9015—Baby Doll, Minn His Society photo9027--J26, Photograph on Victory Bond Drive, my colllection9128—Photographed in Ithaca (per Landship’s Lists o...
I have finally found photographic evidence of 10th Company tanks in US service that still retain their "J" number. Attached are details of a photograph taken in the United States during a Victory Bond drive of 301st Tank Bn. Mk Vs 9136 and 9027 (plus a third barely visible on the left side of the image)...
I had an email from Dominic Manning about his grandfather who was a tank commander in Estonia in 1919. <quote>You may be interested in these documents. My grandfather, FEA Manning, was commander of tank no.9349 'Brown Bear' aka 'Uku' and then later in Riga trained the Latvians in no.9147 lat...
I came across this on the web, and thought i would post here, in case it wasn't done before. Only one battalion, the 301st, was used in combat, assigned to the 4th British Tank Brigade and then to the 1st Tank Brigade. The battalion did not receive any tanks for its own use until August 30, 1918, after it e...
