Landships II

Great pictures, Landsturm.

Great works. I love them!

Landsturm wrote:

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Hughbearson wrote:

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I really love these! Please do more!

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Of course :) feel free to view my gallery for more of my artwork.
Assuming you specifically mean "do more tanks"? Is there some specific type, individual or situation in mind?

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Your gallery is really great! OK, so you've done two paintings with British tanks, how about German A7V tank or other tank/armoured car/armoured train of the Great War?

Or one of two fights between tanks in the Great War: Villers-Bretonneux�(A7V vs�Mark IVs, later A7V vs Whippets) or�Niergnies/Seranvillers (8th October 1918, German Mark IVs vs British Mark IVs)

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Landsturm wrote:

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I just might :) I'm always trying to view the war from several point of views and sides.
I have the Kenneth Macksey's "Tank versus Tank" in my bookself, which has good battle accounts and maps about those. But is there ONE specific idea you got? At the moment I have tons of work in my hands, but I'm always asking what people want to see, just don't hold your breath ;)

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I think that making a nice painting of a fight between two or more tanks is really hard so a single A7V (I just love these tanks) would be great for a beginning

I didn't hear about�"Tank versus Tank" book. Does it�contain�information on WWI battles? I guess that Villers-Bretonneux is covered, but I'm not so sure in case of much less known Niergnies/Seranvillers. Many people think that Villers-Bretonneux was the only tank vs tank fight of WW1.
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CharlieC wrote:

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The Villers-Bretonneux tank action was in 2 parts:

A7V #561 "Nixie" vs 3 Mk IVs
A7V #525 "Siegfried" vs 7 Whippets (4 Whippets destroyed by the A7V and 7.7cm guns)

Regards,

Charlie

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Of course, I know, i wrote it in one of my previous posts in this topic

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Personally, some Russian armoured cars would be interesting, but don't rush yourself.

Hi Landstrum, when I 'forwarded' from Underground2 a threat warning came up a 1098 error what ever one of them is.

I better not Google deviantart�don't know what i might find!

DA is not without its flaws, but I've find it useful for presenting my works and also receiving some good critique. I agree with you, but I'm not interested in anime and I ignore them, as well as all the other styles, genres, influences and groups that I'm not interested in.

German A7V, number 528 named "Hagen" was one of the vehicles accidentaly hit by friendly artillery fire near Fr�micourt, August 31st 1918.

More great work indeed.� The whole gallery is great, and much of it captures the emotional aspect which is a fitting tribute to those who fought - and those who died.� "Lest we forget."

Back to topics - one thing that has haunted me ever since I read it (somewhere, I can't find it again), that at (such-and-such) a battle, the Germans first used the tactic of firing flares at the tanks in the fog, to mark them for artillery attention.� What a surreal scene - I haven't seen it pictuered anywhere, but it would be difficult to portray.� Perhaps other forum members know, or have an idea, which battle that might have been and which formations might have been targeted that way?

the First World War saw a great number of different armoured cars, before and after the first tanks appeared in the battlefield. Here are just a few examples used;

Top left: Belgian Minerva car patrolling on the outskirts of a German occupied town, August 1914.
Top right: British Rolls-Royce Mk I, in Egypt, 1916. The upper panels of the armour has been removed from the turret, as it was often the case in desert regions.
Lower left: After the war, German E-V/4 Panzerkraftwagen Ehrhardt being used by the Freikorps in Berlin, during the uprising January 1919.
Lower right: Russians decided to produce a domestic version on the chassis of British Austin. Due the revolution of 1917, the "Russian Austins" didn't quite make it to the WW1. But it was extensively used in the following Civil War and the related conflicts, especially by the Reds. This car became known as Austin-Putilov.

Mark tanks in both desolate quagmire and open country in the Western Front.

Top inset: Female version of Mark II C21, 578 named "Perfect Lady" during the Arras offensive. This particular tank had ditched before reaching the British frontline on the opening of the attack on 9th April 1917. It was in action once again two days later, but it's destiny was to be knocked out by a friendly artillery barrage in Monchy-Le-Preux, on 11th April.
Although considered a British "victory", the Arras offensive (together with the ill-fated French offensive at the same time) didn't achieve a breakthrough and resulted high casualties.

The year 1918, saw the armoured warfare at its best. In the foreground, Mark V B56, 9003 of the (C Coy, 2 Battalion, Tank Corps), while advancing in support of the Australian troops in Amiens, 8th August 1918.
This was the start of a final Allied offensive and the opening day led Ludendorff to name it "the black day of the German Army".   
This battle was also the debut of a lengthened model, Mark V*, that can be seen in the background accompanied with infantry.

Fantastic! :) Keep up the great work! :)

New stuff...

As their Spring offensives continued onto early summer, Germans launched "Operation Gneisenau" against the French and Americans, in June 9th 1918. In Compiègne, the French (under General Mangin) started their counter-attack with four divisions and 160 tanks, surprising the Germans and eventually stopping their offensive.

Seen here, two French Saint-Chamond tanks (improved version) are spearheading the counter-attack from Méry, June 11th 1918.
The 62668 ”Pas Kamarad” (from 2° Batterie, Groupe Artillerie Spéciale 38) broke down and was captured by the enemy in the town Lataule.

Germans armoured force was mostly made of captured vehichles, like the British Mark IV.

Top: German armour, both the captured Beutepanzers and German-made A7V's, first saw action in the beginning of Kaiserschlacht.
On 21st March 1918, as the German started their "Operation Michael", female tanks "Käthe", "Lissy", "Hedda" and "Sonja" from Sturmpanzer-Kraftwagen-Abteilung Nr. 11 supported the German IX Corps's attack against the British in St. Quentin. The tank is painted with Maltese cross on the hull side for recognition. Later on the insignia and vehicle numbers would become more elaborate.
Left: German tank crew member.
Bottom right: After the Spring offensives and battles of summer 1918, the Germans found themselves on retreat and with the end of war in sight.
Here a German tank, from Schwere Kampfwagen-Abteilung (Beute) Nr. 15 is waiting for orders of counterattack at Niergnies, 8th October 1918.
This was to become the second (and the last) tank versus tank battle during the First World War, as they unexpectedly encountered the British Mark IV's. The battle was made chaotic due fog and smoke, and first the British mistook the opposing tanks as their own.
The German tank has a camouflage coloration ans has switched to a new Balkan cross markings painted from early October 1918 onwards.

Wonderful work of art. Thank you for sharing these with us.

Hello All

For the Renault FT , the "ace"s were not colored during the war , only black paint was used.

Anyway , great painting !

Olivier