hi happy new year for all members of landships I'm a french and i love the french tank of WWI. i buy kits of tank because i'm not the time for built with my job. I'm old military and work to the adminstration now  best regards olivier Â
Many of the older vehicles have a lot of shiny brass that looks great on the parade plaza, but might be conspicuous on the battlefield. During combat conditions, was the brass painted over, allowed to tarnish, or what? It also appears that some vehicles no longer have glass . . . was it broken, taken o...
Just thought that I would post pictures of my latest scratch built WW1 model. It is built from photos mainly and so the accuracy may be a little vague. Â
Another scratch built model from the plans found on this site. Thought that you may be interested in it. -- Edited by DaveS on Monday 9th of March 2015 10:20:36 PM
Built from the 1/76 plans on this site and other information about the Thornycroft vehicle.I still feel the sit of my vehicle is just not right.Here are some pictures.
This is again built from mainly plastic card and anything else that fitted the job.I used plans from various sources and many of the drawings and plans did not seem to agree.This, then is my best guess.I also build a gun trailer and a six inch naval gun for it to tow.-- Edited by DaveS on Friday 13th of Marc...
Hi everybody, with TAKOM's MK IV Hermaphrodite upcoming, I am wondering if we are looking at a "paper tank" like the late WWII German projects so popular with some modellers. Every source I have consulted says that the "Hermaphrodite" configuration with one "male&quo...
I would like to add stowage to my Great War models but I don't know where to obtain fuel cans from that time. Any help would be appreciated. I am willing to scratch build them if I had an idea of what they looked like. Thanks.
First I'd like to say, that its a great site with lots of informations which I couldn't find elsewere... I'd like to know what size has rivets (especially big ones around hull) and nuts (especially connecting front plate with angled bottom one - below gun) in A7V. I searched for it, but couldn't find. I...
I have just won this April 1918 Hotchkiss manual from an online auction. It is for the MK1 and MK1* Hotchkiss machine gun. Now I believe it was the Hotchkiss MK1* that was fitted to the later marks of tanks, MKV onwards, but would appreciate confirmation of this. What I did note though was the four digit n...
Bumbling around I came across three shots of Schneider tanks in a University Archive 'Schneider Tank converted for use as tractor and yard derrick' Circa 1918 'Paint shop associated with 10th Company 2nd M.M Regiment, Aviation Section, Signal Corps, American Expeditionary Forces, France' 'Unl...
Here are some new 1903 cannon breaches ready for installation at the INDIANA MILITARY MUSEUMS GUNS THEY HAVE 3 OF THEM, also here is a reman set of 1903 cason boxes for sights. Here also you can see a set of 1917 brownings. These are all demills. Also pictured is a set of sights for the same cannons. The Bla...
? Hello comrades, I found a reference to a truck-mounted french 75 (complete with wheel and carriage!)as an early A/A improvisation. Could it be ? Best regards.-
Hi, I've been meaning to post these photos for some time, just in case anyone wants to look at one of these and is in the area. They're off a German Mortar, I think a 25cm, having looked at the Artillery Articles page. I took them at Fort Nelson last year as I had never noticed it before. Â
Help ! Iam trying to establish what arms the Germans had in place Africa August 1914. The British War Office Handbook of the German Army 1914 gives a good starting place. But there is little else & much of this either vague or contradictory. I have 'I think' established the following. But there are...
Does anybody have any info/photos of the vehicles used in the African theatres during WW1? In particular I am interested in steam powered lorries/tractors etc
Though I'm always terribly gun-shy about posting something that may be "old news" to all of you, a search of "tank", "panzer", or "char" in the search field yields a nice spread of postcards with images of Marks, FTs, and Schneiders. The images themse...
I came across these two photos of one of the Studebakar Tanks on the IWM site, not sure if they've been posted before. Â A Studebaker Tank with 4-cylinder 100hp aero engine. -- Edited by MK1 Nut on Wednesday 21st of January 2015 02:01:57 AM
It has recently come to my attention that there are but two Monitors still afloat in this world today. However, there seems to be a lack of good resource material surrounding them.
The oldest of the two, the Hungarian river monitor Leitha was launched in 1871 and became the first Danube monitor of...
Hello everybody! Now I have а question about five imho chinese fortress guns, wich are situated in memorial area in Lushunkou district, PRC (38°50'5"N 121°16'46"E). What is a model of these guns? Are these ones really artillery pieces or some kind of mock up?  -- Edited by Capitan Print...
Does anyone have a copy of or a link to an online version of the Official British History of Tanks? I have a letter from Harry Ricardo here from November 1941 where he is replying to the Paymaster General Lord Hankey about it and his role and he makes series of observations, criticisms etc. of it. I though...
I am searching for ammo boxes of Hotchkiss .303 cal. I found pictures of ammo boxes for Mark V tank but I need for Whippet A. If somebody have information, please help. Â Best regards, Ernst Â
86 pieces were acquired from Krupp and delivered in 1914. Â Guns in original configurations are harder to find, but there are still a few. Â Armeemuseum's collection in Thun: Â Full's Museum: Â 63 pieces were upgraded in 1939, with muzzle-brake and new wheels. Quite a few of these are visible among mus...
