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...
Just finished this tonight. Takom's rendition of the Tadpole. Added better nut detail to the suspension, rebuilt the stowage bin from scratch to make it more to scale (thin sheet metal rather than sthink steel plate!). I also totally rebuilt the exhaust system from brass tube. Painted in Tamiya XF8...
In addition to Gary's great Whippet Mk.A 'Freikorps' model in this thread http://landships.activeboard.com/t63600386/whippet-mka-freikorps/I also wanted to give a brief overview over the locations in January 1919 and today ... [URL=http://s240.photobucket.com/user/Peter_T1958/me...
I recently finished the WD Models Clayton Shuttleworth Tractor. This is another fine kit from them. The only bit of detail I did was add the control linkages and replaced the rivets on the track units. Thanks, Rob
I believe these anti-balloon flak wagons were used in Cambrai to stop advancing British Tanks. Photo caption - A German Kraftwagengeschütz in a repair shop, possibly post WW1. Presumably, a 7.7 cm anti-balloon cannon, perhaps or a 7.62 cm cannon (flak). The name "KRAFTW" on the bonnet. Business. K...
---------> The second Public Warning for "Ft 17" 