Its has been a while since I have had an opportunity to posted a WW1 build. However after seeing the excellent paper model build by Charlie C in QMHE Brisbane last year, I decided to have a crack at building one myself from the same plans. I was concerned that the size and weight with interior detail would...
Little more than twelve years since it was announced that they were "coming soon" (or is it longer - I can't remember), Strelets's A-H Honved are, apparently, arriving at retailers! I shall be interested to see what PSR makes of the uniform.
Built this one a while back. It is actually a pre-production model which was given to me to build by a local hobby shop for promotional purposes. As a result, it was built pretty much out of the box, just adding some missing bolt heads around the rear gear drive panels (obviously fixed on the production k...
A friend sent me these. "Wooded mock-up of Mark VI tank. Designed after Battle of Arras, it was an improved Mark V with greater speed, lighter loading and more ease of control. Not proceeded with. Note that it was to have one 6-pounder in front, instead of two in sponsons – Source: Imperial War Museum Lo...
Wow they lived up to their promise. Sturmpanzerwagen A7V 506 Mephisto is going back home to Brisbane, Australia.https://www.facebook.com/WINNewsCanberra/videos/1391893454209015/
Off to Vaux-en-Amiénois before very long. Among other things, I shall be trying to find where Mephisto got stuck, near Monument Farm, and where he/she/it was kept before being moved to Merlimont. Can anyone tell me where this 5th Battalion demonstration ground was? It might be that our hosts will ha...
I haven't raised the flag for cardmodels for a while..... A new model by Wayne McCullough - Schneider CD artillery tractor. This is the long tray version. Wayne is working on the short tray version with capstan. The gun isn't right for a CD but gives the general impression of an artillery tractor with...
currently for sale on ebay is this photo of a Female covered in dirt with two Italian soldiers and a nurse next to it supposedly Bologna 1943. I can't see any identification marks on her and didn''t know any Females made it to Northern Italy or why this one was left. I'd be interested if anyone know anythi...
If anyone is interested in the Plywood Parade tanks built for Liberty Loan drives in the USA in 1918, Tank and AFV News has posted a bunch of photos I recently found. https://tankandafvnews.com/
I finally located the main Ordnance files for US tank development in WWI at NARA. Not as much stuff as I would have liked on the obscure projects, though quite a bit on the production types such as the Six Ton Tank, Mk VIII International, etc. There is a set of plans from France used to start the manufactur...
I have just come back from watching the new Wonder Woman film with my wife (She even enjoyed it) It is set in WW1. There is a scene on a German Airfield where there is a captured British WW1 tank. A beutepanzer. It was a Mk iV male. How did that happen? How did a blockbuster Hollywood movie get the prop histo...
Landships II has been trundling along without any changes to the underlying code base for years now. I think it's time to think about how the website could be upgraded. There are a couple of things I'd like to do - these are: 1. Split the mortar articles from the artillery section and put it in its own sec...
I know ---------> The second Public Warning for "Ft 17" I know that it is not a FT17 but as I visited my local tankmuseum (the NMM in Holland) i saw this ..... So the name is so common that even a museum uses it? Just a few pictures of this tank attached.Best regards,Willem
Mephisto is back at the Workshops Railway Museum at Ipswich until the new exhibit space at the Queensland Museum is ready. Being one of those Queensland residents who lamented the lack of care the Queensland Museum showed in preserving Mephisto over seventy years, culminating in the flooding of...
---------> The second Public Warning for "Ft 17" 