Landships II

Date: Oct 18, 2005

French Rail Gun Drawings

Date: Oct 18, 2005

Tim, those are great!

Where are they from?

Date: Oct 18, 2005

Excellent! Super! Thanks for posting them. Now I really feel like doing that 5 Star 1/72 French Railway Gun kit!

/Peter K

Date: Oct 18, 2005

Hello

A friend of mine from Germany sent them to me, I am sorry I don't no what book they are from., I have alot more I can post if you wish, I also have there technical information, I will try and post more tomorrow.

All the Best

Tim R.

Date: Oct 18, 2005

Tim, thanks for posting the great drawings. They should really help us with our "gun spotting" efforts.

Date: Oct 19, 2005

Sorry Guys

I made a mistake, number 2 is incorrect. It should be 400mm howitzer Mle 15

All the Best

Tim R.

Date: Oct 20, 2005

I now know where they're from - Ian Hogg and John Batchelor's 'Rail Gun', which I picked up for a tenner from Abe Books, it arrived this morning!

Date: Oct 20, 2005

Hello Roger

If it is the same book, Please let me know if there is any Italian or Russian Rail Guns included.

All the Best

Tim R.

Date: Oct 20, 2005

Well, they are the same drawings, and judging by how faint they were I imagine it's the same book (they're printed in dark blue ink on pale blue paper, so it's difficult to get a good, clean copy from it).

Sadly, there's no Russian or Italian stuff.

However, I expect you've seen these, but if not...

http://rkkaww2.armchairgeneral.com/galleries/artillery/railroad.htm

And some magnificent albums of photos by Vladimir Yakubov:

http://svsm.org/gallery/Heavy-Guns

And an album by Nick Matveev:

http://tanxheaven.com/nic/TM-3-12railroadgun/tm-3-12railroadgun.htm

All feature the Soviet TM-3-12 305mm railway gun. Rather astonishingly, there appear to be two of the beasts left!