Landships II

 

Just awake.... what a great thing to wake up to - thank you.

No problem on space. I can't think of any show stoppers.

Regards,

Charlie

here's a list of all my cardmodels, names and file sizes.  the total is on the order of 75 MB.

 

    6ton.parts1.white.pdf    144 KB
    6ton.usmc.pdf    3,859 KB
    72.MkIV.300.brown.pdf    3,122 KB
    72.MkIV.Bob.pdf    4,139 KB
    72.MkIV.Hanni.pdf    2,846 KB
    A7V.501.f.pdf    4,028 KB
    A7V.503.061123.b.pdf    1,414 KB
    A7V.505.Baden.a.pdf    1,891 KB
    A7V.561.pdf    1,345 KB
    A7V.RoechlingBuck.pdf    228 KB
    CA1early.c.pdf    1,630 KB
    CA1lateflames.pdf    1,440 KB
    FT17.a.greensand.pdf    1,110 KB
    FT17.e.greensand.pdf    1,495 KB
    Ft17.f.us1918.pdf    4,792 KB
    Ft17.g.3color.pdf    1,519 KB
    FT17.h.lw.pdf    3,885 KB
    FT17.i.LeNainJaune.pdf    3,891 KB
    Ft17.j.parts1.i.rus1.pdf    223 KB
    Ft17.j.parts2.i.rus1.pdf    151 KB
    Ft17.parts1.white.pdf    159 KB
    Ft17.parts2.white.pdf    84 KB
    gofasta.pdf    3,829 KB
    Halberstadt.CLII.Schlasta 13.pdf    1,992 KB
    Halberstadt.CLII.Schlasta 23b.pdf    2,201 KB
    Halberstadt.CLII.Schlasta 26b.pdf    1,832 KB
    MedA.Beute.pdf    2,070 KB
    MedA.sfinks.pdf    1,851 KB
    MediumA.pdf    386 KB
    MkIVB28.pdf    3,612 KB
    MkV.300.H41.pdf    4,218 KB
    MkV.300.white.pdf    4,583 KB
    MkV.ChemDyelo.pdf    2,960 KB
    schneider.a.pdf    2,293 KB

 

An update on Wayne's cardmodels....

I've got Wayne's model files and will get them on Landships II in the next couple of days.

Also Corey Ertz has allowed us (Landships II) to co-host his 1/72 WW1 cardmodels. These are:

Mendeleev tank

Burstyn tank

Frot-Laffly landship

Pilsudski "tank" - Polish improvised A/C from 1920.

Regards,

Charlie

 

New section on Landships II - "Models" - Wayne McCullough's and Corey Ertz's

1/72 free cardmodels. The control page is still a bit flakey but I'll get it fixed in the next few hours.

Regards,

Charlie

-- Edited by CharlieC on Monday 7th of May 2012 07:59:30 AM

 

New designer added to the Cardmodels section - Alberto Perilli - Interwar models.

T1E1 Light Tank

T4E1 Combat Car

M2A1 Light Tank

Vickers Medium Mark II (both * and ** versions)

M1 Armoured Car

I think I've set off a stampede on Landships II - we've had something like 450 unique users in 2 days, normally expect about 80.

Regards,

Charlie

 

I did quite a bit surgery to the model pages including changes to the stylesheet file. I suspect your browser is using a mixture of new files from the server and old files out of the local cache. Try clearing your browser cache otherwise wait

for a while until the pages expire in your cache/intervening proxies.

The pages work fine for me in Firefox, Chrome and Safari - don't have IE (use Mac)

Regards,

Charlie

 

That's weird - I always test updates in Safari - my version is 5.1.5.

If the problem isn't local to your browser I'd think your ISP is running a proxy which has a problem.  Probably this will go away when the proxy files expire - try later. I would suggest trying to access the website via its IP address but the Landships ISP has configured the servers so this doesn't seem to work.

Regards,

Charlie

 

I tried again, on spec, and now it's working fine - may have been the sequence of events of clearing the cache and clicking the links that foxed the computer before. Thanks for the advice, Charlie.

BTW - Wayne, Corey and Alberto - well done guys, these models look very nice; I particularly fancy building an FT and CA1.

Don't suppose anyone has anything like a: Tadpole, V*, VI, VII, VIII, VIII*, Med B, Med C, Med D, St Chamond, Skeleton tank, FCM 2C, FIAT 2000? 

 

There are 1/25 St Chamond, K-Wagen and FCM 2C cardmodels available. There's a free 1/48 A7V-U around - must see if we can co-host this.

If there was a St Chamond model it isn't too big a step to contemplate a model

of the St Chamond SPG - choice of guns 220mm howitzer, 280mm howitzer, 155mm GPF and 194mm GPF. (I'm writing an article on these for Landships -

a summary article is available in the AMMS Brisbane May 2012 newsletter

http://www.ammsbrisbane.com/home.html?L0=1&L1=2).

Glad it wasn't my code causing the problems - sounds like a broken proxy somewhere in the US.

Regards,

Charlie

Perhaps in the summer, if I have a little spare time, I might try my hand at scratching my own card model of one of the unrepresented (to my knowledge) tanks; I use to make paper and card models when I was a kid - albeit with the difference that I didn't glue them together, I used sticky tape because my initial experience trying to glue a paper boat when I was six or seven resulted in complete failure (the glue stubbornly refused to stick).

Although sticky tape doesn't give as neat a finish and necessitates colouring in panels before fastening, it allowed me to work as fast as I could rather than wait tediously for glue to dry; hopefully now I have rather more patience to wait than I did when I was six or seven It's been a long time since I last tried making a card model, but the thought of taking model making back up has been appealing to me increasingly for months.

If it interests anyone, I think the last card model I made (about 11 years ago) was a crude model of a planar crankshaft V8. I couldn't get my head round the relative positions of the pistons and books always tend to illustrate 'normal' cross-plane crank V8s rather than the flat-plane crankshaft type which was apparently used in the earliest V8s (presumably therefore in WW1 V8s) and later on in racing and supercar engines, so I built a basic model (with square pistons for ease) with a clear plastic top so that I could turn the crankshaft and see where the pistons went; it needed both ends of the crank to be turned because the card crankshaft twisted too much otherwise. With hindsight, it should have had a wooden crank.

If I do build anything, I'll try to post a picture - anyone fancy seeing a Mk VIII*, MkVI, Skeleton tank or Medium D?

The 3D model is pretty well finished.  Now to "explode" it into flat pieces and connect them.

 

There's also a gun change during the St Chamond production - the early ones had a 75mm Rimailho designed gun made by St Chamond, the later ones a standard 75mm Mle 1897 gun. Apparently Rimailo was receiving a royalty on each St Chamond gun - the French authorities eventually figured it out.

The rollers were an addon to improve the St Chamond's trench crossing abilities - worked quite well in dry ground - failed in the mud of Western Front trenches.

There were two rollers at the front and a single larger one at the rear - you can them on this walkaround at the AMMS Brisbane website (the only surviving St Chamond at Saumur).

Regards,

Charlie

-- Edited by CharlieC on Monday 14th of May 2012 12:59:08 AM

I set up the 3D models for the mid- and late-production models.  from the AMMS pix, I can see I need to split the rollers or darken the middle portion to simulate the split.

Any other comments/suggestions?

BTW, I was in Australia a lot last year, on business.  Four trips, totalling 3 months.  Five weeks in Newcastle, NSW, and the rest in Brisbane, QLD.  Had I known about the AMMS, I might have dropped in on a meeting.

 

A new cardmodel - a 1/48 A7VU by Nobi of Thaipaperwork. It's a fairly simple model but seems to build quite well.

Regards,

Charlie

 

That's weird - I presume you're clicking the link to Thai Paperwork. (http://thaipaperwork.hobby-site.net/). That URL works for me on the browsers and machines I can access (3 Macs and an iPad).

I'll see if I can dig out the IP address of Nobi's site and try that - could be a case

of DNS Poisoning in Thailand.

Regards,

Charlie