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CharlieC · Legend

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More articles:

Detailing HaT's 10cm lFH 98/09 - conversion from Landships I article

Renault FB Artillery Portee

Schneider CD Artillery Tractor

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Charlie

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Pat · Commander in Chief

Thanks for all the work that went into those articles. Looking forward to the one about the 75mm Krupp guns! wink Regards, Pat

CharlieC · Legend

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New article

Rob Langham's article on the 2.75" Mountain Gun

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Regards,

Charlie

CharlieC · Legend

New article

Rob Langham's article on the�10 Pounder Mountain Gun

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Regards,

Charlie

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CharlieC · Legend

New articles:

P. Drexhage's review of Retrokit's FCM 2C

PDA's review of Early War Miniatures 37mm Infantry Gun Mle 1916

Regards,

Charlie

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CharlieC · Legend

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Two new cardmodels designed by Corey Ertz:

Vickers Mark E

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No direct links to the cardmodels but they can be found at�http://landships.info/landships/models.html

Regards,

Charlie

CharlieC · Legend

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Two new St Chamond cardmodels designed by Wayne McCullough:

1/72 St Chamond M1 Char Caisson - unarmed supply tank

1/72 White model St Chamond Char Caisson

No direct links to the cardmodels but they can be found at�http://landships.info/landships/models.html

Regards,

Charlie

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CharlieC · Legend

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A new designer on Landships II - Andrey Romanchuk from the Ukraine.

Andrey has allowed us to co-host his armoured car models.

First up - 1/43 Austin-Putilov armoured car at�http://landships.info/landships/models.html

Regards,

Charlie

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CharlieC · Legend

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Another cardmodel by Andriy Romanchuk - Jeffery Armoured Car No.1 1916.

I've changed the colour of the original model to a mid/dark grey since the period images seem to show the armoured

car was painted a fairly dark colour. If anyone has a suggestion about the original colour of the Jeffery car - I can change

the model colour fairly easily.

I've also recoloured the Austin-Putilov to grey since these cars were built during the civil war and they were painted with

whatever was available.�

Regards,

Charlie

CharlieC · Legend

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Another Andriy Romanchuk cardmodel - 1/43 Poplavko-Jeffery. I recoloured the model a pale khaki colour. There is a white model included as well.

Regards,

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CharlieC · Legend

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Another Andriy Romanchuk cardmodel - 1/43 Russo-Balt C24/40. A white model is included as well.

Regards,

Charlie

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wayne · Colonel

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CharlieC · Legend

wayne wrote:
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�My apologies - fixed now.

Regards,

Charlie

PDA · Legend

Thank you Charlie. I appreciate the effort you put into Landships II.

CharlieC · Legend

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Another Andriy Romanchuk cardmodel - 1/43 Mgebrov-Renault (early turret version). A white model is included as well.

Regards,

Charlie

Pat · Commander in Chief

Thanks - perhaps this thread could be made "sticky"? Regards, Pat

CharlieC · Legend

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The last armoured car model - the Mgebrov-White on Landships II. There are other armoured car models on Andriy's website (allfrompaper.narod.ru) - these are

either available on ecardmodels.com (i.e. commercial) or, in the case of the Ba-64, out of period.

Regards,

Charlie

CharlieC · Legend

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New artillery article - Canon de Montagne 65mm Schneider Mle 1906.

Uses Rob's images of the captured Greek 65mms at Canakale plus some other material.

http://www.landships.info/landships/artillery_articles.html?load=/landships/artillery_articles/65mm_Mle_1906.html�

Regards,

Charlie

CharlieC · Legend

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Two new articles:

U.S. SPGs - Overview - sketches the history and some of the political forces associated with the rise and fall of the SPGs.

Holt SPGs - Survey of the Holt SPGs and those built at the Rock Island Arsenal.

There is another article on the Christie SPGs in preparation.

Regards,

Charlie

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CharlieC · Legend

The article on the Christie SPGs is on Landships II. There are a number of Christie vehicles with

very little information available. If anyone knows about these vehicles please contact me.

Christie SPGs�

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Regards,

Charlie

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CharlieC · Legend

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New kit review on Modell Trans 1/72 Mark V on the website - here.

I'd like to thank Peter Kelsall for the review.

Regards,

Charlie

CharlieC · Legend

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Three new Mark I cardmodels by Wayne McCullough:

Grey, White (uncoloured) - both male and female versions

Mark I C4 "Chablis" - Solomon-style camouflage.

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Regards,

Charlie

CharlieC · Legend

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The Mark I C5 "Creme de Menthe" Male model is on Landships II now.

Landships II seems to be having some download issues - hopefully these will clear soon (looks like a bad proxy).

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Regards,

Charlie

CharlieC · Legend

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New artillery article "Japanese Gun Markings" in the artillery section -�link

Probably of not much use in Europe but there are lots of Japanese guns in the US and Australia.

Many of the surviving Japanese guns date back to WW1 and before.

Regards,

Charlie

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CharlieC · Legend

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A catch up:

A new kit review by PDA on EWM's St Chamond�link

Update on the Holt SPGs (new video)link

Conversion of the German Tanker Uniform article from the old website by PDA with new images link

Regards,

Charlie

CharlieC · Legend

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Wayne McCullough has had a "tangent" as he calls it and has created a cardmodel of the Junkers J.I ground attack, army cooperation sesquiplane.

For the aviation challenged the Junkers was the first production all-metal aircraft. It had an armoured "bath tub" to protect the crew, engine and fuel tank.

The same concept has been repeated a number of times - the Ilyushin Il-2, Henschel Hs129 of WW2 and the A-10 Warthog recently.

There are models of 4 different Junkers and the build instructions, which are downloaded separately.

Regards,

Charlie

Rectalgia · Legend

Looks like a lovely set of models. The Dumpy Book of Aircraft & the Air (ca. 1955) entry:

d_fernetti · Hero

There are very good kits of the Junkers J.I both from Eduard (in 1:72) and from Wingnut Wings (in 1:32)
Both are relatively easy to get nowadays and make for a big, menacing , and colorful model.
Here's one from Paul Thompson on the WW1 modelling page:

There are also a few books on this curiious airplane, and one survives in Canada and fragments of another in Italy, where only the armoured portion of the fuselage is preserved.

There was a fair number or armored airplanes designed in WW1 for trench strafing (most of them kitted), alas, I feel that they're beyond the scope of this forum!

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CharlieC · Legend

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Wayne's models have an unbeatable advantage over the plastic kits - they are free.

Looking at the image of the very nice plastic build I have a query about how well the plastic kit captured the airfoil of the Junkers.

The Junkers J.I was an early example of the Junkers "thick wing" designs.

Regards,

Charlie�

d_fernetti · Hero

Indeed they have the utmost advantage! I'm tempted myself to try card modelling after seeing the French tanks PDFs. I guess it must be quite a challenge.
On the kits I mentioned, the representation of the corrugated metal surface is superb, I dare say flawless. So good that my Eduard kit is untouched until I can decently paint that soft-edged camouflage over those large wings. And just this year I got myself an airbrush...

Making a corrugated surface out of card is one of the most discussed topics for scratchbuilders. Harry Woodman (may God have him well suplied of plastic card in Heaven) devised a method to score good quality art paper in a corrugated pattern. But even he admitted it was a though thing to achieve accurately.

CharlieC · Legend

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Two new cardmodels by Wayne McCullough:

Mark II Female C21 "The Perfect Lady"

Mark II Male C27 "Lusitania"

Regards,

Charlie

CharlieC · Legend

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New article on the Trubia light tanks - tie in with the upcoming cardmodel.

http://landships.info/landships/tank_articles.html?load=tank_articles/Trubia.html�

Any interest in an article on the Spanish use of Schneider CA1s in Morocco in 1922? - I found an article (in Spanish) on this topic when I was researching the

Trubia tanks - thought it might be interesting....

Regards,

Charlie

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CharlieC · Legend

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New artillery article on the 6 inch Mark XIX gun

Thanks to Phil for the article

Regards,

Charlie

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CharlieC · Legend

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New tank article on Landships II - Char de Bataille project.

These prototype tanks have a link to the Medium D article since 3 of the 4 prototypes used snake tracks.

I've also included a section in the Medium D article on the Char de Bataille project.

The Char de Bataille tanks, after a long and tortuous development, eventually lead to the Char B 1bis WW2 tank.

Regards,

Charlie�

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CharlieC · Legend

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New railway article - 520mm Schneider howitzer.

I wrote an article for the RAAHC (Royal Australian Artillery Historical Company) journal "Cannonball" a while ago.

I thought I may as well expand the journal article, which discussed the French response to the German Dicke Berta and

Willemgesch�tze, into one suitable for Landships II.

Regards,

Charlie�

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CharlieC · Legend

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New railway article 400mm Saint-Chamond howitzer.

The Saint-Chamond howitzer was very successful and was used in both world wars.

Regards,

Charlie

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Roger Todd · Legend

CharlieC wrote:
New railway article 400mm Saint-Chamond howitzer.

You might want to contact Arie Dijkhuis of this parish, as he drew a very good set of plans of the 400mm for Tankette many years ago. I have them scanned and while he probably wouldn't mind them being included, it might be best to check first seeing as he's a regular here.