From a review on Abebooks of Ernest Swinton's second autobiography, Over My Shoulder: "His autobiography takes the reader to India, South Africa, and America, and of course depicts the author’s life in England. Sadly Swinton died shortly before completing this book."
Have received this encouraging news from a journalist in Luhansk: Tanks should be fine, there were no fighting anywhere close to them... In fact some Russian soldiers were identified because they took photos in front of those tanks... see report here https://informnapalm.org/en/russian-ser...
Please forgive me,- I post very little here and build even less *BUT* with a pair of Takom Mk.I tanks in the stash and MR Modelbau correction sets being ordered at the weekend, my mind is turning towards building a Gaza Female - either the relatively photogenic Kia-Ora or the seemingly less-so Tiger...
?I have just joined this site today and I am very impressed .Last October I had the opportunity to visit the remains of the WW1 tank Deborah in France close to where it was found. It is stored in a barn at present. We arranged to meet a representative of the owner outside the barn one morning, he spoke no Eng...
As discussed in this old thread, a website has been built for Convoy Models. It appears to be still under construction because parts of it are not working, but it does list all their models that might be of interest to us, and their price list is there as well. Here it is: http://convoymodels.co.uk/
Hi there, I came across some nice brass barrels for the Takom 1/35 MK1 Tank. Just thought I would put a link here for anyone with the kit. Magic Models Helen x
Hi, I live in Australia and am in the process of building a WW1 themed model railway set in 1917/1918 when Australia contributed some Railway Operating Company's. As I am working in 00 Gauge for this, I would like to convert the Airfix MkI's to Mk IV's, rather than using 1/72 kits. I have tried to contact...
Having spent the last few weeks working with Wayne's MkI paper model, redrawing and redesigning it into a number of different guises (see my earlier post), I was really wanting to try and have a go at designing something from scratch - nothing do complex, just something to cut my teeth on! Having been...
Good afternoon all. Have spent the last few weeks completing the first part of a long term project that I'd been thinking about for some time - the modeling of the MkI in all her guises, in paper, at 1/48. Using Wayne's original model (which in turn is based on Helen's amazing plans) I started with a redr...
Came across an interesting pic the other day of a MkIV adapted to push mine rollers ahead of itself. Got very little joy from Bovington other than "we appear to have very little other than a copy of the Mark IV Invicta mine roller at Dollis Hill that you already". The Live Steam guys have got qu...
I have an article in this month's Military Modelling. I've made some micro dioramas in 1:285 scale and the article explains how. I have credited this site for some of the information that helped me to create them. THANKS!
Hi everyone, my name is Clark Ward, and I am volunteering at the National Armor and Cavalry Museum's armor restoration shop, documenting the M1917 tank that we have there (which is the version with the 37mm M1916 cannon). There are no blueprints for this tank (which is what I'm doing), and we found re...
Don't know how long these have been available, but Wings of the Great War have two tank models available; A7V and MkIV Male. http://wingsofthegreatwar.com/ These aren't kits, they are supplied assembled and painted. Not sure about the accuracy of the MkIV, both the paint scheme and rear armour det...
. . . on seeing a quiz question in the paper yesterday: "Why would a Russian use a Sokol suit?" Years of arguing that there was no such thing, gun, inventor, company, or anything at all called Sokol flashed before my eyes. Fortunately , it turns out that a Sokol suit is worn by cosmonauts. And...
The Polish company First to Fight have released their set 033, including two kits of this gun without crew. I take it IBG are involved in their kits. You can see an unboxing video here. A review in English with photos is to be found here. This looks really good to me. The number of spokes is correct for a Fre...
We have now ready for sale correction sets for Takom kits of Mark I Male and Female tanks as well as two stowage sets with typical British boxes, cartes and cans. The Mark I cab superstructure has been reworked and features now the correct arrangements of bolts and rivets.For more information look he...
Hi, bought a pile of Manchester Guardian WW1 Mags. found this dummy tank made in Canada for recruting purposes. any one know more on it. must have been fun making it, as it is way larger than than an actual tank. Regards, Sandy -- Edited by nurgle on Tuesday 2nd of February 2016 06:56:36 AM-- Edited by nu...
Hello! I need an identification of the towed gun on the photo. Is a cylinder on the left of the barrel symply а case for swab or some kind of the antirecoil system?
Greg's French 75 mm French Artillery Model1. Preparing for the build, design process, first parts Introduction:In early April, I joined Landships, announcing my plan to scratch build a scale model of the French 75 mm Canon de 1897. I selected this because of my grandfather's participation in a hi...
