How did Allied tanks perform a passage of lines? How do you get 100 tanks over your own trenches quickly and without telegraphing your intentions to the enemy? Do they fill in spots for them to drive over? Do they drop facines into their own trenches? Do they just drive over the top of the trench and h...
Hello, Everyone! I've been lurking for a while and finally decided to officially join in the fun. I've already gotten a lot of good information out of this site. I've been a model builder for 34 of my almost 41 years and have just recently started building 1/72, WWI era subjects... It was an infor...
I have been searching in vain for measurements of track extensions as fitted to Mk1 and onwards tanks. I would like to make a master and then see if I can produce resin copies. any information gratefully received, I am confident that one or more of you will be able to track down the information that I can...
Splendid film about Russian helmets, with English subtitles. Adrian gets discussed from about 1' 45". It seems Russia ordered 2 million, but received only 340,000. Then it was decided to produce superior copy, as discussed on previous thread. But still no explanation as to how many reached t...
I am restoring apair of WW1 limbered wagons, dated 1915 and 1916, and I am trying to obtain detailed plans, photos and information. I have a complete Australian pattern fore and hind wagon with straight axles and parts of a British pattern with the bent axle. About 25 years ago I was able to photograph...
What types of tanks were in production or in preparation for production in the USA at the time of the Armistice? 6-ton M1917 Ford 3-ton Mark VIII What types of tank were in service in France with the US Army at the time of the Armistice? Renault FT Mark V Mark V* What other vehicles were produced as prototy...
There is a gentleman over on a Yahoo sight, FS32NGModelrail, who is asking for pledges relative to a 1/32 scale O&K skip he will market if there is interest. I know there's a few trench railway guys here like myself, so If you're on of them, contact Mark and let him know you'd buy a few. As informati...
Hi all, Found something interesting when reading Major Wilson's A Company of Tanks - he mentions "the tanks which later were paraded through Berlin were not my tanks".Were there some tanks paraded in Berlin? This quote is referring to a time just after Bullecourt.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2653834/Charging-head-long-battle-The-experimental-bayonet-hat-allowed-British-First-World-War-soldiers-attack-enemy-heads.html-- Edited by piet71 on Wednesday 11th of June 2014 11:48:56 AM
Here we have Andriy Romanchuk's Jeffery Armored Car No.1 recolored and rescaled to 1/48. This is the fourth of Mr Romanchuk's line of WWI armored cars that I've built, and I can't say enough about the quality and design of these models - they are excellent. This one came with clearly illustrated instr...
In the past I promised to post pictures and info about Swiss artillery during early 20th. Please keep in mind most literature on the subject is written in German and my knowledge of the language is pretty much zero. So I will mostly focus on providing pictures and info on surviving guns, accompanied...
Greetings! I am seeking information on this unit. It is frustrating because the battalion & brigade designations identifying tank units changed. I have a document dated 16 March 1919 authorizing a number of men from this unit the right to wear a gold chevron on their sleeve for 6 months servi...
Been browsing again and found this website, http://www.jjduk.co.uk/index.php?route=common/home Its a new one to me and unfortunately the wrong scale. Pieces look well finished though. Paul
On Facebook there's a rumor of Tamiya releasing a new kit of the Tank Mk.IV on the next Shizuoka Hobby Show in May. I recall that someone on the forum mentioned this earlier this year...
Hi mates. Apologies, this is not exactly an historic or modellistic post, but I need your advice. I´d like to spend some days in August visiting the places of WW I, i.e. Arras, Cambrai, Sedan, Metz, Verdun..This is the zone I´m interested in.. Has anyone of you experts suggestions, ideas recommendat...
Hi all, Couldn't find a topic, so created one. I've been researching the salvaging of tanks, and have been trying to find the first instance that a Mark I-IV was captured by the Germans. I thought it might have been early on, as after the Somme there were some 58 tanks, with at least 2 near the German fr...
Hello, Has anyone purchased from Blitz Models? They have some very nice kits that I wish to purchase. I have emailed them several times but have not heard back. I don't read French and have had no luck figuring out their website. Does any other website stock their kits? Thanks, Rob
Just got my first two. From these and Hannants website it appears that they are doing a range of variants - Skoda 100mm vz 14 Howitzer - spoked wooden wheels ditto but vz 14/19 with longer barrel 10cm LeFH 14/19 (t) - German WW2, ?pressed steel wheels Obice da 100/17 Mod. 16 - Italian mountain gun mod with...
I have a number of photographs and the manual 1919 edition....can anyone shed any light as to when the hydraulic oil reservoir tank was fitted to guns. The tank seen on the barrel of the gun.....the 1919 manual has a lot of detail and drawings, however some WW1 photos show the gun without this fitting. ...
When a tank broke down, or was put out of action, how were they recovered from the field? I don't mean how did the Germans recover British tanks, I mean how did the British recover their own tanks? A recovery tank? Traction engine? Lots of blokes with spades? I've seen the odd photo, here and there, of a ta...
