A quote from Winston Churchill, giving evidence at, I think, Bede Bentley's 1925 claim for having invented the tank. I was sure I'd made a note of this, but I can't find it now. Churchill was asked if anyone else could claim to have invented the tank. Churchill's reply was something like: "I think Mr. H....
Hello, Here's one of my latest work in progress and as the title says it all, it is the massive MkVIII 1919 heavy tank. My model is in the large 1/16 scale and is full scratch except for the ball mg mounts that are in 3D. It is now ready for the final paint jobs after I added the unit insignia. All the building d...
Hello lads, i recently found out about the "Models" page on landships.info, and i just had to try it. I actually wanted to do the St. Chamond first, but as the title of the post suggests, i have never done any modelling in my life and the St. Chamond just looked too hard to put together so i picked the A7V Now...
Hi all, This is my first post in this forum. Sorry for my bad english. Could someone help me to identify these heavy guns? Images from Ebay. The first photo: According to photocaption it is a 28cm coastal howitzer on the Belgian coast, but what model?? The second photo: I guess it's some sort of heavy art...
This is the link for the recent restoration of the German 10,5cm lFH 1898/09 in the collection. I am still missing the firing pin/bolt carrier so it is not firing yet but aside from that everything including elevation, traverse, spade, sliding wedge breech and brakes are back in a functional state....
I have just added the English translation of Bruchmuller's work "Die Artillerie bieim Angriff im Stellungskreig" to the Research and Resources page of Lovett Artillery. I hope you enjoy this. Artillery_in_the_Offensive_GB.pdf (lovettartillery.com) -- Edited by Ralph Lovett on Thursday...
Do we know about this? Opened four years ago this month, and rather spectacular. The Great War not neglected. This is the Museum's very swish website: https://rtm.jo/ However, Tripadvisor shows 129 photos of the building and the vehicles, including 2 WWI replicas: https://www.tripadvisor.co....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCqav31U72s&t=113sThe story is simplified a bit for our audience. The reaction has been quite staggering as it has a...
I'm working with a very talented modeller on a couple of articles on Thresh steam disinfectors mounted on the back of Foden Steam trucks to treat uniforms and bedding of troops to kill lice and fleas. WW1 was the first major war in which deaths from disease were lower than combat casualties due to adva...
Does anyone know what has happened to Barry? I had details of a book about the railways in the Palestinian Campaign, where his father served on the light railways, that may have interested him. I knew he was closing up the business, but he seems to have disappeared? Regards, Chris
I don't think that I showed this build here before. I added plastic strips to a Mk.IV Female from Emhar. The Royal Navy used one Mk.IV tank to tow airships. A part of the airship would be nice but I don't know how to attach it and getting the tank built is a challenge enough. But at least I have finished the...
Bernard Plumier, who runs the website passioncompassion1418.com, recently sent me an image of a Bombarda da 400mm mortar which he saw in a museum in Rio de Janiero. I have no idea how it got there. The carriage looks somewhat different from images of the Bombarda da 400 in WW1 - perhaps it was intended...
In 2022 I noticed that the Imperial War Museum website mentioned an item labelled “KRUPP ARMOUR AND ARMAMENTS TESTING” Catalogue number GWY64. Section iii contained “..A small group of civilians and officers watch the trials of the Leichte Kampfwagen 1 prototype…”.I got in touch with the IWM and t...
i had a grandfather who fought with pershing in the mexican border expedition (1916) and then went to england and france in the 301st heavy tank battalion, 27th division, american II corps. is there a place where i can find records of his service?
Does anyone have decent references on the above? So far I have: 12 Battalion Tank Regiment was part of occupying force in Cologne from mid-1919. That's it. Is there any more info?
Stumbled across this newspaper coverage of manoeuvres in 1908. Hornsby tractor is pulling trailer, both on caterpillar tracks. The trailer is mounting a dummy gun, as IIRC suggested by Major Donohue of the MTC. I'm sure I've seen another shot of the trailer-mounted gun but can't remember where. An...
I had a broken .pdf of the plates from the manual/handbook of the BL 12-inch howitzer and have recently managed to retrieve the images. Does anyone know of a downloadable copy of the manual/handbook? There is a hard copy in the IWM library but that's a fair distance from me. Landships II doesn't have a...
Hi guys, I was looking over the general arrangement plans of the Mk.IV and I noticed that I could not see any rivet placement on the plans, which is crucial for my 3D model, I was wondering if there are full plans for the Mk.IV tank, which shows each component in detail including the rivets, would help a bu...
Hello Everyone, What card stock thickness is recommended for printing out plans for paper models? I am thinking about having a go at them but there seems to be no mention of what stock thickness and/or any type of materials to use. Thanks in advance.
Hello, I am looking for documents, schematics, or photos that show detailed photos of the interior of the British MK 1 gun carrier. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I'm doing a wet, muddy logistics scene and I'd like to open up the bed of the 1/35 Standard B Liberty truck. Specifically, I'd like to model the tarpaulin covering the bed of the truck folded back halfway to the middle of the five bows. But this raises some questions (all I ever do here is ask questions) - W...
This was posted on the Landships FB group page. According to the newspaper article, she is Diadem II. According to Landships Googlesites Diadem II was 8048. Something peculiar has happened to the photo, presumably in the colorisation process.
Although the bridge eventually hosted Italian troops crossing a river across Russia and Ukraine in 1941, the type of bridge used was the same as that used by the Italian army during World War I: Birago-type pontoon bridge gio
La grand album des Automitrailleuses de la Victoire (Histoire & Collections) (2023) is available now. François Vauvillier is well known, and the book also benefits from the expertise of José Luis Castillo, Laurent Lecocq and Éric Schwartz in the presentation of the illustrations. The te...
I've seen reference to the Gana-Krnka M1876 20.32mm rampart gun being used as an anti-armour weapon in either The Great War or The Russian Civil War. Does anyone know if this is just speculation or wishful thinking?
Hello, I have seen a reference to a 2 cm TuF gun but have no ide what it looks like, dimensions, etc. I have searched the forum here but only see references to smaller sized 'TuF' and a 20mm Becker canon. Does anyone have a picture of the 2cm TuF or can they supply me a link or resource to look at? Thanks, Tony I...
Dear All, I do have a question to teh experts. Of course we all know that WW1 brought a lot of trials in body armour to all participants. Also the French army did some trials. In Osprey Campaign Series No. 11 "Kaiserschlacht" on page 50 you find a plate with a French soldier in Body armour. The drawing...
