I was interested to know if WWI armoured cars were painted white inside? I have seen photos/footage of the Rolls Royce online that show a white interior but these vehicles also served in WWII. I am particularly interested in the Ford Armoured cars of 1916.
How long were the Mk.I and Mk.II supply tanks used? Can I add the red and white stripes on my model or were they pensioned by the time the stripes started to be used?
Found the attached image in an Italian archive of WW1 images. The image was horrible but cleaned up pretty well. The caption said it's a 105mm gun. The truck looks (I think) like the SPA9000 trucks that had the 102mm guns mounted on them However, the mounting looks quite different - I've added an image...
I have a French Berthier 1890 Cavalry rifle.... in great condition; It has a large "star of david" escribed by tiny tacks on both sides of the stock.Was this rifle used in Israel?Was this something a Jewish Soldier in WW 1 might add?Is there any other explanation?Thanks.karbrimac
I have just read a book entitled 'Chemical Soldiers' by Donald Richter. It is the story of British gas warfare in WW1. It describes the various methods of delivering poison gas to the enemy trenches. One of the methods was to load narrow gauge wagons with gas cylinders fitted with a detonator head to re...
As I'm trying to finish my two "Gaza" Mk.I from Master Box I started to think about the rear of the tanks. As these don't have the tail wheel, should they really have the hydraulics left?
I bought a resin kit of Hedi. It seemed Ok compared to pictures. One can see that it is based on parts from Emhar's A7V kit. I had seen that there were a couple of things that needed to be fixed. The doors should actually be flush with the hull sides and I could have let it pass but the hinges are placed incor...
Hello, I was trying to see what the French Defence Agency archive ECPAD has on WWI tanks but have been going in circles on their website. I don't speak French and Google Translate doesn't seem to work well with their website's format. The search field on the home page gives only a few returns which see...
I've enjoyed reading the British magazine Tradition (not to be confused with the French Le Magazine Tradition) for many years and hope that some of you might be able to fill gaps in my collection. I've 53 (of 76) issues in digital format and about 10 in paper format (though not all of the latter are...
Hello, these pics are a few years old but they show the Tank Mark V in 1/72 that I made by remixing somebody else's model. I don't have my own 3D printer so I used the one at my local public library. It's not a very good printer; it is the FDM type (filament) so it doesn't do a good job with small details and it l...
Moving heavy artillery from location to location involves quite an organisation. I always wondered how to change from train track gauges. For instance, to move a German 42cm gamma gun it was split up in several loads. The heaviest still weighted almost 26 ton. To come nearer to the front the train g...
A rather odd, broadly correct, but somewhat error-strewn doco on the creation of the Tank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5epRCHelc8 I noticed two rather interesting items that I don't recall seeing before - although, as usual, I might be wrong. 17' 14" - 17' 50" Test drive of the Buick versio...
Here we are with the first two releases among the new releases announced. We have decided not to release the pontoon bridge (used both in the First and Second World Wars) in a single box, but we offer, given the great possibility of construction, the individual parts that compose it, leaving freedom...
All the references I come across ll say that the lorry was 24"-0" long by 6'-0" high. Most probably all coming from the same source. However, blowing up some of the photos and scaling off them, the actual height to the top of the sides vary between 7'-2,5" to 7'-7,7". Does anybody have a verifiable heig...
I never thought possible, but the spare parts list of a Dürkopp Artillery tractor is up for sale on eBay!!! My absolute dream model! There is one drawback however: 599€ is simply exorbitant and far beyond my financial reach. Argh
Hi guys I'm Joerg from Germany and a newbie here. I've 3d printed a model of the Ford 3ton tank. I normally don't build early tanks, so I have no glue what colors I can use for this tiny tank. I've asked Steven Zaloga He said he used a mix of "tan" color with Tamiya XF90 Red Brown. The original color must have b...
It all began when I decided to try to clarify the extent to which Wells could be said (as he frequently is) to have "invented the tank." This produced a great deal of interesting reading, some of it fascinatingly ill-informed, misguided, or badly researched. But that's for another time. A...
So I was looking through a couple of photos and I was wondering if there were any type of spuds attached to the tracks of the Mk.V, I've only seen through historical photos that only Mk.IVS have these sort of attachments, as well as the previous versions before it. Any help on this would be appreciated.
Hi! Long time since I last posted. Checking previous threads, there's some info on the special MMGS modifications of the Ford model T, specifically this one: Consensus seems to dictate that this might have been used in the Western Front. The wheels and the body of the car seems to be of the same colour,...
