Hello, I am currently making a technical list of the weapons that Imperial Germany planned to use or was about to use in 1919 (for private purposes only). I was wondering if anyone has any information on the 88mm field gun, as I have only seen it mentioned briefly in a few posts on this forum. I w...
Hi everyone, I found this great image today while I was browsing through the archives of The Sphere Magazine on www.illustratedfirstworldwar.com It's an artists depiction of the "armageddon" he believed tank warfare would bring to the Great War in the future. Have a look through the a...
After years of not building models I am about to take the plunge again. My first attempt will be the Takom early St Chamond. In particular I want to build "Teddy" as it would have looked at Laffaux. On 3 May Teddy was extensively filmed and photographed and I want to check if my color assumpti...
Hello, I recently started the Brach (ex Mr. Panzer) 1/72nd scale WWI Italian Lancia IZ armored car. When I first opened the box I was disappointed at the poor quality of the kit. However, I realize this is an older kit and the molds must be worn. Still, I decided to put the kit back on the shelf and work o...
Can't recall seeing these before, but usual apologies. Been rereading the article in GBM 98, and it ends by saying that the 1A ended up on display at the tank School at Versailles, along with a Schneider and a Saint-Chamond. Guy says that it disappeared after 1940, probably scrapped. But at least one G...
Sofia Military Museum has a very cool artillery collection. While many pieces are correctly identified, a whole area contains a multitude of pieces without any label. I have pictures of around 20 guns that require proper identification. This one is a small (mountain?) piece from Amstrong: [url=h...
Hello all, I am planing a 1/10 rc-buildt of this great "Little Willie" vehicle, so I am looking around for all kind of detail fotos. If there is anybody who like to share their pictures with me, I would be very pleased. It should be no pics from the web, I think I have them all , I thought ab...
I am interested in the article "German World War One Tanks" contained in this Japanese Language magazine. Does anyone have a copy of the article or would they be able to lend me a copy of this issue of the magazine?
Hi All, Lots of new material on the First World on the Imperial War Museum web site. :) Anyhow, looking at one of the films I was surprised at the end of one to see a MK1 Recovery Tank. Now I've seen one with a magnetic grab for mines, but not one in France before. At first I wasn't sure as I couldn't make out th...
Hi Following the major successes with the French tanks I just wondered whether any of you knew of any film available on the web of a Medium D (or D* etc) running.? I know of the clip showing the part submerged Medium D with water running from it, but that doesn't count. Any help gratefully received becaus...
Hi everyone, Today i was looking through www.illustratedfirstworldwar.com and found this article. One of the first articles from WW1 to mention tanks. There's loads of cool historical facts in this site, I definitely recommend having a look. http://www.illustratedfirstworldwar.com/item/...
Hello to all of you, i open my first topic. As i noticed a lack of particular garments, typical of western front battlefields, I tried to create a set of figures detailing some market offers. The first one shows a soldier wearing a Jerkin vest. I know... it's quite a crime... the original one was a magnif...
Hi, I wanted to share the information about a new WW1-museum in Belgium: Lange Max Museum. It is about the "Lange Max" gun (batterie pommern, leugenboom) at Koekelare, Belgium. The opening of the Lange Max Museum (LMM) will be in the weekend of 25 October 2014. You can follow uw at www.lan...
Another in our occasional series “Let’s Take a Closer Look at That.” A further examination of the debut of the Renault FT. It is a truth universally acknowledged that this took place on May 31st, 1918 at Ploisy-Chazelle. From Steve Zaloga down, any self-respecting account says that such is the case....
How would you go about opening up the hatches on a kit? I'm talking 1/72 and 1/76 Airfix, Emhar, Master Box, HaT, First to Fight etc plastic kits. I want to open all the hatches on (at the moment) a Whippet and a Mark IV Female, but I can't see a way of doing it without destroying the existing hatches and surr...
A quick question please - what colours did the A-H army use for its artillery during the Great War? And the Czechoslovak Army between the wars? (And if the answer is 'khaki', do you mean browny green or greeny brown or brown?) I'm making the new 1/35 IBG Skoda guns. The postwar Italian mountain gun varia...
The subject of Home Forces or training numbers has cropped up recently in discussions on the Tanks part of this Forum.? These, I should clarify, are the large white numbers painted on the horns of heavy tanks in the UK.? It has occurred to me?a few weeks ago how these numbers might work.? This post is to t...
Hello, After a long hiatus on this model I have finally started painting the 1/35th PanzerShop Mark B. What renewed my interest was a color plate in the recently published Osprey New Vanguard book on the Whippet Tank. This color scheme is of a Red Army Mark B captured from the White forces. I have y...
I'm replacing the Emhar unditching rails with something more accurate. The Emhar rails scale out as an angle about 4,25" deep by 2,5" wide by 1" thick. The Airwaves brass rails scale out at approx 2,75" by 2,75". Does anyone have the correct size of angle used on the Mk IV? ...
Just found some Corgi WW1 models online. There is a tank and a bus, but scale is uncertain. Sellers are saying they are 1/72 scale, but they look a bit bigger .
, I thought ab...