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During the war and up to world war two various wooden mockups were made for crew training, recognition and target practice or distraction purposes.

Thought it would be a good idea to gather a lot of these together as they are quite interesting but generally just a side issue or ignored completely.

Bulgaria circa 1920: http://i.imgur.com/DXeGEmH.jpg Former training tank

China 1937: http://i.imgur.com/BHmUWri.jpg for deception

China circa 1930: http://i.imgur.com/BgcbSH7.jpg Japanese troops? with two deception tanks

Japan date not known: http://i.imgur.com/ko4PmKw.jpg - apprently lost in transit at some point

Metz 1932: http://i.imgur.com/1wu2S35.jpg Repurposed mockup looks like it is now a hen coop/dog house

School on Engineers, Kensington Gardens circa 1917/1918 for camouflage practice; Framework: http://i.imgur.com/5a9Kw1T.jpg http://i.imgur.com/vPOc9KS.jpg Painting: http://i.imgur.com/i6KnayJ.jpg Snazzy Dazzle patterns: http://i.imgur.com/FgP1OaC.jpg

UK: Training mockup for Royal Marines? http://i.imgur.com/BjBgLGf.jpg

USA: 1918? http://i.imgur.com/s09foha.jpg troops pushing a mockup M1917

Italy (somewhere in the North): 1918 - British rhomboid mockup used for training http://i.imgur.com/n0O0cu0.jpg (in the background some blighter has shot down a German plane)

Berlin 1927: Not quite military but an FT-17 crafted out of soap as some salesmanship at the international soap exhibition http://i.imgur.com/Vl3M3fD.jpg

Date/Location not known #1: http://i.imgur.com/tXlr8Sc.jpg Male tank with FT-17 mockups

Date/Location not known #2: http://i.imgur.com/3pTYNU3.jpg and possibly the same one here http://i.imgur.com/iAnXnbv.jpg and here http://i.imgur.com/VugZAAE.jpg http://i.imgur.com/MijwqBb.jpg http://i.imgur.com/VAjW2uW.jpg

Edit: same tank - http://i.imgur.com/ePXqfNS.jpg

Another unknown one but looks like rustic setting: http://i.imgur.com/Wjh5rlK.jpg

German mockup of British tank with wheels: http://i.imgur.com/SdRK7LG.jpg

April 1918 (helpfully dated) German mockup of Rhomboid: http://i.imgur.com/SkXAWab.jpg and I think the same one from a different angle with attached postcard message on the back http://i.imgur.com/2D6Ev6b.jpg

This one could be the same as 'Unknown #2 above' : http://i.imgur.com/c1dU7KN.jpg

Date/Location unknown #3: 'rough and ready' http://i.imgur.com/KmYs8SN.jpg

Date/Location unknown #4: Looks like canvas skin; http://i.imgur.com/8DRl3zO.jpg

On tracks? - maybe some kind of pulled target?: http://i.imgur.com/gjnSLJm.jpg

German troops checking out an FT-17 mockup: http://i.imgur.com/ub2X7De.jpg

I'm sure there must be lots more out there or even more shots of these ones.



-- Edited by vollketten on Monday 30th of March 2015 02:54:14 PM



-- Edited by vollketten on Monday 30th of March 2015 08:25:01 PM

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Bulgaria 1918: http://i.imgur.com/owVACd4.jpg Soldiers taking a break from learning about tank layout - (bullet holes in the canvas?)
I notice a lot of distinctive walking canes too

Edit: better version without the mess across the image: http://i.imgur.com/Ei7SwwN.jpg

-- Edited by vollketten on Monday 30th of March 2015 07:55:57 PM



-- Edited by vollketten on Monday 30th of March 2015 08:26:26 PM

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Captioned as September 18th 1918, 4th Company of Australian Engineers made 10 wooden tanks as part of a diversionary attack in the area of Le Verguier. One was destroyed [by enemy fire]
i.imgur.com/ZJ8gaUX.jpg
i.imgur.com/PycxJZN.jpg
i.imgur.com/VH1pE20.jpg
i.imgur.com/6FsUZzy.jpg
i.imgur.com/cWnBdUv.jpg
i.imgur.com/l3B8BZS.jpg

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Wooden A7V from our own forums back in 2007 http://landships.activeboard.com/mobile.spark?p=topic&topic=10233192 from wuestehu
http://i.imgur.com/OZFFos6.jpg



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Another one from the past http://4600n200e.com/mediac/400_0/media/wooden~tank~ww1.jpg from wuestehu

http://i.imgur.com/gyWh796.jpg ""Mouzon (Ardennes) after the war, a tank that was used for the training of the cadets of the Artillery Academy installed in the old nunery des Capucins by the Geramns"

Dummy FT-17s in Belgium http://i.imgur.com/wzjTuQ4.jpg

Really well done mockup of a British rhomboid with wheels http://i.imgur.com/mg4PdFW.jpg

From TimR http://files.activeboard.com/5605?AWSAccessKeyId=1XXJBWHKN0QBQS6TGPG2&Expires=1428537600&Signature=IVfTSTXoJFVLL10qEkj0qs3pXhI%3D

2 more different Rhomboids

http://i.imgur.com/PfwC2J9.jpg 

http://i.imgur.com/ASR7No4.jpg



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German rhomboid mockup 1917 http://i.imgur.com/wOOsRsG.jpg



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