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Hi all,
I am just completing my build of a male mark 4 in 1:6th scale and need some markings for it.

i have the read and white stripes , but i need a serial number , the big tactical marking number on the side and the tank name for the front.

want to take it to the model show in newbury this sunday, so i'm trying to get the info before then.



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If she has the white-red-white stripes then she is late war, after Cambrai. I think that only 2 units kept the Mark IV (the others got the Mark V), 'L' and another one that I can't remember. So, I think that 'Lodestar III' is a good suggestion:




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thats brilliant, i like that name.

this is my first ww1 model, so i am not familiar with these markings.

ace photos, but the info i have scarbbled together shows the name goes on the front or under the tactical marking.

so your reference to 'L' company would imply i put a big L+number on the side and the name under it, or just on the front.

i am surprised there is so little info as the wwII stuff i doo, there seems to be masses.

thanks for you help. will post a photo / video when she is running.

Kieren

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No - just paint it as per the photos PDA has posted. This tank is preserved at the Military Museum in Brussels in its original paint scheme. There are lots of photos of this tank on the internet, including many on this site.

Numbers/names positions and style vary between battalions (even between sections) - you can actually tell the battalion/section by the style. So don't put large L numbers on the front horns. Some 12th Battalion tanks carried them on the rear fuel tank (but Lodestar III doesn't have them anywhere).

Gwyn

P.S. The other battalion was 7th and WRW stripes not introduced till April 1918.

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Actually Gwyn there is a number on the rear armour. It's a faded but just visible "L47". It also carries the W-R-W stripes on the fuel tank armour.
I've added an extra shot of the name as carried just aft of the stripes. Hope this all helps.
One last piece of info: the name doesn't appear to be on the starboard side of the tank.
-- Edited by Mark Hansen on Wednesday 24th of March 2010 01:19:34 AM

-- Edited by Mark Hansen on Wednesday 24th of March 2010 01:24:07 AM

-- Edited by Mark Hansen on Wednesday 24th of March 2010 01:29:07 AM

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thanks for all the help guys

i know its not the right color but here she is -

mk4-1.jpg
mk4-2.jpg
mk4-3.jpg
mk4-4.jpg
mk4-5.jpg

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I might be a bit thick but would it have the L47 on its sides or did that go out od fashion by 1918? Most earlier pictures have clear numbers on each side and often on the cab roof.

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Nice looking model, Kieran. You got those markings on in double quick time!

RCD, the easiest answer to your query is to say that there was no prevailing fashion about where to put the markings, or even whether to have markings at all. That's what Gwyn means by, 'Numbers/names positions and style vary between battalions (even between sections)'.

There were no rules about that sort of thing; or rather, these guys were making up the rules.

Lodestar III is the only surviving Mark IV that is in its original colours and markings (actually, that's not true; Deborah is as well, but her markings are too hard to see), so it is a good example to follow. But other Mark IVs, although approximately the same colour, had their markings displayed in different ways and in different places.



-- Edited by philthydirtyanimal on Friday 26th of March 2010 03:07:23 AM

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Nice model - I love the smoking exhaust.

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Actually, to be precise, I mean that there were rules but that these vary between battalions, between sections and over time...

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