There were 8 British tank Battalions at the Battle of Cambrai Nov 1917. They were given letters of the alphabet. A Battalion, B Battalion etc.. Was there a standard number of tanks issued to each battalion or did it vary? Obviously the amount of tanks that were combat ready differed because of losses a...
First to Fight are working on a 1/72 kit of what they are calling " Polish howitzer 100 mm wz.14 / 19 ". From what little I can find, this seems to be the Austro-Hungarian gun that Landships is calling "10cm Feldhaubitze M.14". I can see that the 14/19 version has a longer barrel, but are there any other maj...
(I apologize for bar English) Whether there is any information on the following projects? Schwersturmpanzerwagen "Gannover" of engineer L. ElersInfanteriewagen "Gessen-Kassel" of plant "Wegmann"Bremerwagen III (Marienwagen III)"Horch" ("Benz-Brauner")500-tons project Landpanzerk...
First to fight have released a small scale kit of the "Soixante-Quinze", some reviewers feel it is too small for 1/72. However as far as I am aware, all of them compared the FtF kit to other kits nominally 1/72, and none of them to the real thing's dimensions. But that is what we need in order to find out whe...
Hello All Doing a model of B bataillon Tank for Cambrai , I have an issue with the locking device for the beam. This is not the design at aft of tank with triangular stoppers , chain and small winch inside the tank. It is on top aft of the spud bin , and either a cable , either round steel is used... If there is an...
I am quite new to the forum, mostly watching and (hopefully) learning, but a number of posts are confusing me a little, not the content, rather the form. However, a lot of threads have questions like "Do you have any more photos of this tank or now (sic) it's identity?" (for example) , who is the "you" re...
i found some blueprint about K-Wagen but something is different this print is generally known as K-Wagen in manufacture which most of us already know the problem is, where are the rear machine guns both side? i can't fine any comments about that pic in reference is there any information?
Male Mark IV tank loaded onto a flatbed railway wagon. Notice the earth mound ramp at the rear of the wagon and how the side sponsons have been pushed in. Do you have any more photos of this tank? Do you know its identity number? Where was the photo taken?
Australian War Memorial caption - View of a tank put out of action in a shell pitted area in the mud near Clapham Junction, in the Ypres sector, in Belgium. The tank was damaged by an enemy anti-tank gun during the attack on 20 September 1917.(AWM E01421) Do you have any more photos of this tank or now it'...
Do you have any more information or photos of the WW1 Mk V composites fitted with a long thin 45 mm gun in one of the sponsons used in the defence of Tallin 27-31 Aug 1941?. Were any tanks fitted with 45 mm guns in the Russian Civil War or was it only the tanks used in WW2?
on missinglynx.com braille scale section there is a posting about Roden coming out with a Vauxhall D type ambulance with a picture of the box art. post dated 26 may
Hello everyone, Adims, please delete if not allowed... We're a production company in Western Australia that is producing a 2 x 1 hour documentary series for UK, Scotland, Canada and Australia on the last 100 days of WW1. we're telling the story of the combined weapons system via individual soldiers...
Stumbled on this. Released last month. As promised a long time ago, follow-up to Pascal Danjou's book on the FT: The Renault FT Around the World Details here:http://trackstory.fr/accueil/119-trackstory-15-le-renault-ft-autour-du-monde-9782917661192.html
Not sure about this, can someone confirm or deny this. Is there a picture of the car showing the license plate ? The car that Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated had the number plate 11 11 18. This assassination lead to the start of the First World War which concluded on 11/11/18.
A friend of mine sent me this picture and the caption that goes with it. "Battle of the St Quentin Canal (Saint-Quentin). Men of the American 30th Infantry Division at rest with German prisoners following the capture of Bellicourt, 29th September 1918. In the background are British Mark V Tanks with...
Whether this belongs in Softskins, Tanks, AFVs, or elsewhere depends on the answer to the question. In de Mole's first approach to the War Office (1912) was he proposing an armoured and armed vehicle or simply an all-terrain vehicle, perhaps even just for transport? I know that subsequent approach...
I have seen a picture of FT17 on a train of MkIV/MkV's somewhere and recall someone mentioning that the FT17's were used in late 1918 by the British as some form of command/liaison tank. Does anyone know more about this, that could expand on the British FT17 use? Were they allocated down to company's? H...
As I mentioned a while ago, my neighbour's father served in the Tank Corps. She died a few months ago, and her son has put her father's memoirs together in a booklet and very kindly given me a copy. He lived from 1895 to 1989, and his life story is worth reading for its own sake. But I was surprised and deligh...
