Landships II

THE FRENCHMAN · Corporal

German Field Kitchen

Brennan · Lieutenant-Colonel

Ah the mighty secret weapon - the goulash weffer! I suggest the image files of the internet archive & / or CARL's didgital library are starting points. The advantage is any photos should have people in the as a scaling reference - WWI males average quite close to 5 foot 8 inches or 173cm !�Hope this helps & welcome.

-- Edited by Brennan on Sunday 28th of February 2010 07:34:08 AM

THE FRENCHMAN · Corporal

thanks that will help

28juni14 · Hero

... the Imperial Army used three different versions,� be careful not to confuse them when working out details.� Good luck

Lafettenheini · Colonel

Hope i can help with the entire pic of the assemling instruction of
my Tamiya Field Kitchen in 1/35 scale . If you wish to get the whole
instruction for your project please let me know your private mail adress
cause of the terms of copyright .

best regards

Lafettenheini

THE FRENCHMAN · Corporal

thanks but i already have that one from tamiya and its a WW2 im looking for WW1
thanks again for your help

Lafettenheini · Colonel

I knew that it is from the II WW but thought it was quite similar to the
WWI pattern. I just had a look in my Brockhaus dictionary from 1937 and
must sadly tell that there was only the version i posted .
Good luck to you for finding more stuff of your needed details .

Best regards

Lafettenheini

kieffer · Commander in Chief

May be this helps a little as scaling reference?

Kieffer

Rectalgia · Legend

OMG, that man with the ladle must be 7 ft tall!

Brennan · Lieutenant-Colonel

Easily, even allow for those around him to be short he has to be at least 7 feet. He is a good 40% taller than those closest to him. I would estimate he is closer to 7 foot 6 inches than 7 feet. A veritable gigantic bean pole of a man! Guess thats why he is in a rear occupation! Try fitting that frame into a bloddy dug out or staying below the parrapet???!!!

Rectalgia · Legend

Unless ... we see here the origin of that fine old German fairy-tale "Kitchen-hand Weiss and the seventeen dwarves." Anyway, either way, very droll Kieffer, very droll indeed.

[Edit] Nope, giant he is - but just a growing boy. Here's a snap of his Dad when he was in his prime:

http://images.zeno.org/Bildpostkarten/I/500-773/MPK02657.jpg

(No, that's not really his Dad, that is Josef Schippers who left the Foot Guards in 1912 aged 27 and was too young to be the other lad's father.) Schippers discussed in http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=149597 and was only 2.12 m or 6'111/2" without the helmet. Snap of him in the axishistory forum with other guardsmen, the Kaiser and King Haakon for a better perspective on his height.

-- Edited by Rectalgia on Tuesday 2nd of March 2010 04:59:30 AM

Lafettenheini · Colonel

I even wonder how sharp your view is gentlemen . Don't you see that this man is standing on
a stepboard ? If you notice the grey difference and the position of the dark grey boots
you will see that they belong to a man behind him !

Best regards

Lafettenheini

kieffer · Commander in Chief

Hi all,

we're back at food and sizes I see! These two Landwehr men showing that the British blockade wasn't threatening them at all.
About length: the father of Frederic the Great, the Soldatenkoenig, had a few long tall fellows around, his Lange Kerle, in Potsdam. He 'purchased' them from all over Europe, stories are that even special agents abducted long guys, fed them drunk and so on.
One explanation for having tall men in the forces then was that they should be faster in loading their muskets. But a show factor played a roll too I guess.

regards, Kieffer

Rectalgia · Legend

Lafettenheini wrote:
... Don't you see that this man is standing on a stepboard?...
oh ...

kieffer wrote:
we're back at food and sizes I see! These two Landwehr men showing that the British blockade wasn't threatening them at all.
About length: the father of Frederic the Great, the Soldatenkoenig, had a few long tall fellows around, his Lange Kerle, in Potsdam. He 'purchased' them from all over Europe, stories are that even special agents abducted long guys, fed them drunk and so on.
...

I wonder about the rations of those giants ... Lange Josef (earlier post) was on double rations.� If you suppose food requirement is proportional to volume (and weight), volume varies with the cube of linear measure (height, width, etc.) then to justify 2 times rations the height would need to be the cube root of 2 greater than average. 2 to the power (1/3) is about 1.26.� Josef was nearly 7 ft tall.� Divide 7 ft by 1.26 comes to about 5 ft 7 inches.� Brennan said 5 ft 8 inches, so yeah, fairly good approximation.� One would rather fight those giants than feed them maybe.

�

Brennan · Lieutenant-Colonel

I fully admit I reccently got progressive lenses , however in my defence there is what looked remarkably like a boot just down by the left end of the near side wheel!

Even assuming a step board he is still a tall bloke! Assuming the creases half way down his trousers is where his knees are, then he is a good foot taller than those standing around him!

Those Landwehr look like they could last a good few months on half rations!

On the progressive lenses, these have been an INTERESTING experience with modling & painting! Having to learn all over again,�where to hold the figure / component & my head so as to see things crisply!

-- Edited by Brennan on Tuesday 2nd of March 2010 11:51:57 AM

THE FRENCHMAN · Corporal

thanks for all the help guys . there seams to be two types i have pictures of two types and the one im making are of WW1 pictures the difference is on the WW2 there are bins on both sides of the cooker and the pictures i have from WW1 there are bins on one side and the front bins are bigger than the pictures of WW2 feild kitchen. i do know they both are german made. i am almost done with it .i made it out of brass and soldered it all together when im done i will put some pictures on here.