A bit of an "Off topic", but some of these guns were still in reserve by th e outbreak of the First World War- This is a Krupp 75 mm L.24 mod. 1895 (couresy Mayor S. Toyos R.E.) Note the Maxim-Nordenflet screw breech block common to all Argentine Krupp guns in this caliber up to the Krupp mod. 1909... [URL=...
This was taken a few years ago at the H.Q. of "The Confederate Air Force", in Harlingen, Texas.[URL=http://s590.photobucket.com/user/patricios/media/Meiji%2041%2075%20mm.jpg.html][IMG]https://i590.photobucket.com/albums/ss341/patricios/Meiji%2041%2075%20mm.jpg[/IMG...
I am enclosing an illustration of a Krupp 7,5cm L..13 mod. 1873 mountain gun sent by my old friend Arkady Kuznetsov and a couple of photos of a Peruvian Krupp 75 mm L.13 mo. 1880 y another contact in Peru.. They are virtually identical. Now compare the simple mount with that of a Krupp 75 mm L.13 mod. 189...
Any way to tell which is which before I buy it? I read that some kits of the same tank from the same manufacturer have the one kind and later ones the other kind. As might be expected, the glue-togethers are too much for the likes of me.
The fuel tanks in the early (Mark i - III) tanks were in the horns The fuel was moved to the rear of the tank for the Mark IV. Has anyone seen any evidence as to whether this had any impact on the handling of the later tanks?i
US Army Railway Artillery Projects Railway Artillery forms another chapter in the history of our wartime Ordnance preparation. An inventory taken by the Ordnance Department as soon as war was declared against Germany showed some 464 big guns available for mobilization on the western front. Thes...
3 new 1/72 kits in processing at Roden; Rolls Royce Armoured Car 1920 Pattern, FWD 3 Ton Lorry, and Vauxhall D-Type Staff Car. http://www.roden.eu/HTML/framemodels1.htm
I found a decal set from this manufacturer: http://www.am-works.com/products/decals/ It says World War Two, but a number of items, including NCO chevrons and divisional symbols, also will work with World War One era US Army and Marine figures as well.
From a friend in Argentina I received this photo-I've seen a short clip of it Any more details ?[URL=http://s590.photobucket.com/user/patricios/media/Italian%20Obice%20da%20305.17%20G.%20Mod.%201917%20howitzer.jpg.html][IMG]https://i590.photobucket.com/albums/ss341/...
And here's another WW1 veteran in the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War. These are (I believe) Model 09 Putilov 152 mm . Howitzers. supplied to the Republicans by Moscow. The questions is why? The Spanisg "Republcans" controlled most of the Army's ordnance, and thequantities of a much bett...
Currently I'm bulding a Mark I Male tank from Takom and was wondering if there are some good photos of the tank in Bovington. There are a few things that I'd like to look at before I use glue/putty...
Recently, as part of the upcoming centenary of Fort George G. Meade, I have been studying and researching the 'Five of Hearts' Renault FT. For those who may not be familiar with the Five of Hearts, the tank was part of the US 344th Light Tank Battalion and was involved in heavy combat on 4 October 1918 du...
Here's another photo of a Brazilian Renault FT 17 during exercises.[URL=http://s590.photobucket.com/user/patricios/media/Brazilian%20FT%20on%20maneuvers%202.jpg.html][IMG]https://i590.photobucket.com/albums/ss341/patricios/Brazilian%20FT%20on%20maneuvers%202....
I took several photos of this Canon de 155 C ( for Court-or "Short" Mle. 1917 at the Aberdeen Proving Ground Museum some years ago. This is the only one that survived.I take it to be a Schneider Mod. 1917 howitzer, judging from the rubber-rimmed tires, an Italian example captured during WW2 . Any commen...
Found on YouTube - it looks like a compilation of a number of clips - it's one of the few clips I've seen of the loading cycle of a railway gun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aej4A_06J8A I count at least 4 types of railway gun in the clip. Regards, Charlie
Is this item on eBay a known variant of the face mask, or is it a fake ? The differences I notice are the vision slits. 6x full width instead of 5x varying width. (short, medium, long, medium, short) The mail is made from links the same size as the links that join the mail to the mask, instead of being made fro...
In the last few weeks, I have gotten away from the CENTCOM area of operations to take a two artillery (FIRES) related courses (Weaponeering and Collateral Damage Estimation) in Vicenza, Italy. It is quite a beautiful and friendly city. While there, I visited the Museo del Risorgimento up on t...
A friend in Connecticut sent this photo he obtained from the Bundesarchiv, in Berlin. It appears to be a Skoda100 L.24 Model14(or perhaps a Model 14/19?) of Republican forces during the Battle of Guadalajara. The question coms to mind: where did these guns come from? [URL=http://s590.photobu...
Not an easy place for pictures, low light and forbidden flash. Yet quite a few interesting pieces 7.6 cm Minenwerfer 7.7 cm FK 96 n.a 37 mm Hotchkiss TR 1916 37 mm Puteaux M 1918 75 mm 1897 75 mm Mortier Schneider Aasen M1915
A really old friend in Spain sent me this photo, taken from a catalogue on "Ordnance Captured from the Enemy" held at the Grand Kursal casino, in the National Zone in Spain during the Civil War of 1936-1939 He described it as a Schneider mod. 1912 75 mm- Now Mwxico w, along with the former USSR were amon...
With most of the 4.000 or so Renault produced left over after the Armistice, the French Goveernment attempted to dispose of them. Twelve of them were offered to the Argentine Army, which promptly rejected them as unsuitable. Brail contracted a Frech Military Mission after 1919, and acting on its ad...
I have just come across a Flickr photostream with very good quality images of this tank, and noticed for the first time the words 'Exeter August 1954' (with some letters before it I can't make out) written in what looks like weld lines (?) on the cab roof hatch. See https://www.flickr.com/photos/low...
In his book, Organizations and Markings United States Armored Units 1918-1941, Charles Lemons states (page 15), "...The Americans used only the spade, heart, and diamond in marking their vehicles within the combat platoons. However, the company commander was allowed the use of one of the tanks a...
