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...
Hi Guys, Saturday I had an enjoyable time at the Bovington Model Show. This is the video a friend kindly took of my Mk1 Tank model having a run around the main hall. :)
I got Battlefield 1 for Christmas and while I enjoy the game there's a couple of details that make me chuckle. It would appear that the British are very well equipped with Krupp 21cm Morser 16s (I mean really, really well equipped). In addition, they seem to have discovered how to fire these weapons wi...
Just finished a beta build of Wayne McCullough's Mark IX Duck. Fairly straightforward to build but the tiny brackets which hold the flotation tanks were a bit of a trial. Regards, Charlie
According to Spanish sources (pre WW1) Peru ordered a battery of these Schneider 203 mm howitzers "that is in service" (that is operational) In Peru. The :Battery" consisted of four railway cars, and a locomotive.: one car for ammunition. another for the gun crews and two cars, each carrying a 20...
Its finally done. A-H are from Hat, Germans Zvezda and Emhar. Morser and Austro-Daimler are scratchbuild. Scale 1/72 -- Edited by Kamil on Sunday 12th of February 2017 01:13:38 PM-- Edited by Kamil on Sunday 12th of February 2017 01:14:49 PM-- Edited by Kamil on Sunday 12th of February 2017 01:16:13...
Upon assembling and painting the suspensions of my Schneider model, I note that unlike tanks of the later era, there were no rubber tires (and probably no rubber anything) on the suspensions. So should wheel surfaces be shiny, like you see on railroad train wheels and tops of railroad rails?
Hi One of the four cannons Krupp 240mm L / 35 survivors in the Historic Battery No. 4 of "Base Naval Puerto Belgrano" fires a salvo during the celebrations of the 135th anniversary of the Marine Corps.-This Naval Base was protected fo...
These were 6 inch naval guns mounted on British 8 inch howitzer carriages purchased by the U.S. in WW 1 and assigned to the Panama Canal defenses. Between the World Wars they were modernized and pneumatic tires replaced the cast iron wheels. In 1939 they were obsolete and about to be sold for scrap....
Curses. Eighteen months ago I had to go to London and pay a fee to watch this, on VHS in the basement of the British Film Institute. Now you can watch it in the comfort of your own or somebody else's home: http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-somme-1927/ Tank business starts at about 1h15min.
While in Buenos Aires some years ago, I photographed this contraption on the grounds of the Muséo de Armas de La Nación, looking for all the world as a dustbin on wheels. A few months later I was given a series in DVDs called "World War One", which dated back to the mid 1960s. On one episode, I noticed some...
