Apologies for delay in reporting. This film exists in the basement of the British Film Institute in London, and is on VHS. We've discussed it a few times before, and managed to confirm that this clip is from the film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TSfFYfk49k The detailed synopsis that, unfort...
A new one on me. Of the type normally seen on heavier guns, but apparently used in Gaza/Palestine. Came across it while looking into the ped-rail (sic)/Bottrill/Dreadnaught (sic) question. Much confusion surrounding this. Anyone familiar with the Dreadnaught Wheel and how it came by the name? It...
On the old website, Gilles Thomas did a very interesting article on the camouflage of tanks by country (SOME SIMPLE NOTES ON WW1 AFV CAMOUFLAGE).Is this article still available somewhere?Tony
I know there are many unknowns about this Mark II tank - at least from my point of view. My membership of MAFVA has lapsed again (something I hope to rectify soon) and so I haven't been able to see Gwyn's articles on this particular tank. However, I am making a model of her, when she was a supply tank. I am wor...
Looking at some of the videos on YouTube (thanks philthydirtyanimal) I am struck by the lack of unditching beams, especially on the Mk. 5*. Did 1918 mean that the ground conditions were such that they were necessary or what? Tony
Now that we will be having a 1/35 Mk. I model, the conversion to a radio tank should prove to be a popular one. The drawings I find on the internet show the Radio Tank with the Mk. I steering wheels still attached. Surely by 1917 the wheels would have been removed? Tony
Can anyone tell me the correct colour the Rolls when they were used in Egypt/Palestine? I have bought one of Millicasts kits and I am modifying it for 1 War condition.I am hoping to make a small dio. Thanks in advance.
A vous.... Disponibile/available Kit 72040 - Krupp-Daimler Kw 19 (master from TK) €. 30,00Disponibile/available Kit 72039 - SET ACCESSORI III (Casa Araba con pozzo/Arab House with well) €. 10.00
A chap we know is restoring a second Napier B74 lorry rather like this one. This second lorry is believed to have been destined for Russia but was never delivered due to the revolution when the order was cancelled. While examining the remaining paint it appears that the first coat was matt black. Can a...
There was a doco on TV last night about V.E. Day, 1945. A very brief glimpse could be seen of two beute Renault FTs on a high street in Jersey or Guernsey. Can't find the pic on t'Internet. Anyone seen it?
The Albert County Museum in Hopewell Cape, New Brunswick, Canada is in the process of restoring (not to firing condition but to display condition) a WW1 German k14 105mm Cannon which was captured at Vimy Ridge, April 9, 1917. You can read all about the gun and our restoration project on our website ht...
On the attached pic of the "Duck", there appears to be large plates attached to the tracks - does anybody have any details on what these were, how many of them, and were there other things attached to aid propulsion? Tony
Should be available imminently from the look of things, now has a webpage on the Roden website. Glad to see it includes transfers for a British Army vehicle: http://www.roden.eu/HTML/733.htm
Yes, modelling, I suppose. Mr. Stephen van Dulken, formerly of the British Library, has compiled a very pleasant list of patent applications relating to toy First World War tanks - the earliest: November 1916, by a Pte. Duncan Rice of Canadian Army Medical Corps. At the time of his application he was...
This topic has a long history and gets very convoluted, but I think that we have arrived at the bottom of it. Bear with me. Our story begins ten years ago, with Vilkata's inquiry about this badge/pin, supposedly the first worn by the U.S. Tank Corps: As Roger Todd pointed out, it bears little resemblan...
This turned up the other day in some archive material a friend was checking for me for some other stuff and there were no details, names, dates, locations, or places etc to go with it. I'm no expert on the matter so I'll just post the image and see what the experts make of it. Looks like some kind of steam pow...
Hey I am wondering how the extractor inside the screw breech of the french field cannon operates. 1) The shell is inserted, 2) the breech chamber closed by rotating the breech block, 3) the firing hammer triggers the fuze, 4) the shell gets fired 5) the breech block is rotated back so the chamber is ope...
This is from an article written by the distinguished Colonel Robert J. Icks, Ret'd. It appeared in a journal called AFV-G2 Magazine, in 1975. The article was actually about how steam power can be used with tanks, but he begins with several paragraphs on the origins and early use of tanks in general, th...
