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 .
Just noticed, what is hopefully start of a new range to complement their newWW1 narrow gauge narrow gauge railway models,Bachmann 36-409 - OO Scale )http://www.bachmann.co.uk/image_box.php?image=images1/scraft/36-409.jpg&cat_no=36-409&inf...
Did anyone else happen to catch the first episode 'The First Day' - The Battle of Mons? I was stunned at the calibre of this programme, especially given it was on the same channel as Family Guy! Utterly compelling from the word go. Made with raw urgency, with no punches pulled. Based on real accounts, a...
Prompted by a related thread on building an improved 1/35 Tamiya Mk.IV, I started checking carefully my own Emhar Mk.IV kit, and discovered that it also seems to be based on the Bovington machine. The rearmost roof panel has the same "doors" and it needs adding the rear wall and fuel tank ar...
Hello , ? is there anyone who has building experience , pictures or knows the history of this kit ? ? It's a white metal kit in the scale 1/32 with a conversion set including track spuds. ? Looking forward . ? best regards Max
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