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TinCanTadpole


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You may have seen these already, but in case not, there's a website which has a number of colour photos - apparently original, not colourised - taken by the French later in the war.

No vehicles except for a Renault truck, which may be grey, blue-grey or green beneath an ample covering of dust - it's guesswork. Nice reference material for Horizon Blue though.

There's also a colour photo of a large tent hangar.

http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/

 

Have also found a meccano enthusiast site with a photo of a Mark I model which appears to be motorized:

http://www.scmec.us/images/Henley98/WW1-tank.jpg



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Roger Todd


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Ha ha, love it! Looks like proper Old School Meccano too! I suspect those wires coming out of the roof go to the yellow control box on the left (you can see a bit of the wire looping round bottom right).

Another Meccano enthusiast, David Hobson, has also built a Meccano Mk I and an A7V (third and fourth rows on the following linked page)!

http://ismeccano-henley.jalbum.net/Henley%202003/index.html



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From meccano magazine november 1917 vol 1 no5....

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TinCanTadpole


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Glad you like it chaps, but I must ask if anyone looked at the colour photos, or you were distracted by the big boys' toys?

I was struck by how modern some of the scenes looked - they could have been photographed yesterday; it's not something you tend to see with colourised B&W images, and I think it makes the men and the war seem much more real than the distanced version we see in B&W.

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Sorry TCT, the site with the colour photos has been mentioned before. But nice to have a reminder of it.
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