One of the things I find tricky with 1:35 scale ww1 tanks is getting decals to form nicely over rivets, especially when you have several rivets close together. Any suggestions other than the usual softeners which really dont seem to do a lot.
Over the Christmas holiday, I set up the M1904 Saddles, M1916 Harnessing, with the French 75mm mle/1897 and its US Limber for photos.There are a few breechings missing from this series of photos and the Limber is really the US M1918 Caisson Limber not the US Gun Limber M1918 and well, I am missing si...
Santa got me the Haynes owners manual for the MK IV, good Santa :) Theres one photo in there of a tank being unloaded from its rail transport. Basically 4 big jacks lifting the tank up so that the wagon can be moved away from under it. Would make a great diorama but I can't find any good pics of the jacks. Any s...
The postal system actually worked properly and delivered the attached... A 1/25 Lebedenko cardmodel tank should be ok until you get to the wheels. As far as I can tell the first thing to build is the jig to assemble the wheels. The model should be 712mm (L) x 480mm (W) x 360mm (H) Regards, Charlie
A small production run of the American M1917 is being reproduced in southern Indiana, the first one off the assembly line will be delivered to the Indiana Military Museum, 4 more to soon follow. These will be up for grabs to museums with the right credentials, private ownership is a available, as wel...
I am looking for a line diagram of a Mark I male tank which could be used for posters, and possibly flags, for the centenary of the first tanks at Flers in September 2016. Helen (Mark 1 nut) plans are superbly detailed but are too complex for our needs. We are thinking of a more simple design which will be e...
Hello Gents, On 23th August 1918 in the morning two tanks were attacked and damaged (not destroyed, because it was only MG fire) by German airplanes east of Proyard. Which unit could these tanks belong to, what type they were and are their numbers and crews losses possible to identify? Cheers, Alber...
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Hello. My name is Karl Van Sweden and I make masters for The New TMD. I am a fan of the WW I land ships though never got very interested in them until now. I usually build 1/35th scale and now with these new kits coming am getting real interested again. I am interested in doing some corrections for the MK I ki...
Looking at the pics published on Armada14 concerning the tanks during the russian civil war, I was especialy interested on the page 24 showing a Whippet armed with a 37mm gun. This specific pic (and 3 other on same pages) is legended as "tank Siberian" (former crocodil) captured by the Re...
I am looking for information on the use of the Mgebov-Renault armored car use. I believe 11 or 12 were made. 1 was in Petrograd during the Feb/March 1917 revolution. One was captured by the Germans in March 1918. Any information on the rest. I understand some were used by both sides during the Russian Ci...
This deals with the markings ect of the Master box Austin III and IV armored car kits in 1/76 Austin III: Top Row German D (decal) 4 freikorps unit Austrian D9 The Austrians captured one which did serve in army's only armored car platoon but it appears it wasn't captured with rest of the unit by the Yugos...
I've been building armor, aircraft and tanks since the late 1950's and recently finished the Schneider CA and St. Chamond (attached) 1/35 models. Was excited to see Takom announce the Mark I but some of their errors are frustrating when there's so much information available on the web today. I...
Here are some questions I'm sure someone can probably set me straight on... i/ Were Mk.I Supply tanks used in Gaza? ii/ Is there any evidence of Mk.I Supply Tanks fitted with the Gaza jib modifications? iii/ What stowage arrangements were there for blocks & tackle when not jib mounted? [never se...
With the Mark IV tank already done as a supply tank version, I wonder if anyone has done the St. Chamond version with the plated-over gun port yet. I did see a picture on page 20 of "French Tanks Of World War 1" by Steve Zagola. Also wondered how the thing was marked and colored. The Mark IV tan...
In the course of some recent research, I have been looking at pre-WW1 paint mixes for British Army vehicles.? I can roughly interpret most of the mixes given but cannot arrive at any idea as to "Service Colour".? The mixes are given as dry pigments mixed by weight and liquid media mixed eith...
Artillery isn't really my strong point so hopefully these pics are something of interest and ok to post. I was on holiday 2 years ago in thew south of Spain and there were two of these guns at the hotel by the main pool. They have been painted up to look rustic and the padding on the back end to stop little ki...
A few years ago, I bought these 2 relics from someone on an online auction site who said that they'd been found in the Bullecourt area. They're both very heavy items. The larger piece is about 13 inches long. Can anybody identify them please? Many thanks
I have some Freikorps flags that some Freikorps collectors have confirmed maybe (He is pretty sure and a expert in his fields of collecting) are real. Has anyone seen other photos of vehicles with these flags other than those I have provided and anybody have any information on Korting subordinates a...
I just completed this conversion. The idea was to use the Takom St Chamond M1 to built a "char caisson" used to carry ammunition and supply for the regular tanks. The Takom kit is definitively a great model, but considering the pics avaliable, the conversion was a bit more complicated than...
One of the things I find a struggle is how to get good looking scale rivets and bolt heads. I tend to work in 1:35 scale. Just wondered if anyone has suggestions or tips for these?
I have used Grant Line products, and am jow on the airship tug, but the size range is limited.
Was wondering if anyone can tell me of the first known instance of a tank running over a soldier? Most of the machines used in WWI weren't very fast and nimble.
To call the rails a travesty is putting it mildly, so I decided to replace them with more accurate ones. I referred to George Bradford's 1914-1938 AFVs, but found that inaccurate as wel in both position and shapel, so I started looking in detail at the Brussels MkIV - Max had sent me detailed pictures o...
Concerning the above,I am planning 2016 for new figure sets for the W^D Models figure sets .I would like to bring out some Italian figures but am having great difficulty in finding good pictures etc. If anyone could help me I would be really grateful. Cheers.
