Landships II

That's a bad news.
Is there a way to find the name of this tank ?
And may be somebody can give me informations about the red and white stripes on the tank and the color and camo ?
(Not particularly about this tank but in average in 1918 )
Many thanks for your message Gwyn.

Amazing,


The 3D view is still a WIP, and will be on a " multimedia table " in a museum in France. (If my chief said "OK")

Gwyn on the credit page, can I put your name ?
In the description of the " making of " can I use these informations ?

And to don't make mistakes, have you got a photo to see an exemple of the font-size, color and may be font-family used ?


Many thanks for your help !

Yves

Hi

I do not know of any evidence that A Battalion tanks painted their crew numbers (A1) on their tanks in this way in April 1918. They certainly didn't at Cambrai. I attach a photo of 'Antigone', which was lost at Cambrai.  You will notice it has A3 painted in small letters on the front horn.  However, this tank was A10 according to the records.  It also wasn't in 3rd Section or 3rd Company so why it should be marked A3 is a bit of a mystery.  It indicates that we do not quite understand A Battalion tank markings.  Unfortunately, there are few photos of their tanks.

However, there is some evidence they did later adopt this system, when they were issued with Mark V tanks. See attached photo of Mark V marked A6.  Now 6 is too high a number for a company in A Battalion, though it might be a section or a crew.  So even this photo is inconclusive.

I suggested to you that the number 4086 might have been carried on the front horn on the left hand side, instead of the rear.  We do see this in 1918 but we cannot be certain this was done with 4086.  That tank would have been new and so may have still had the serials at the rear as you have shown.  Copy those you see on the Mark IV preserved at Brussels.  There are photos on the Landships II site.   

This brings me to another point. I can see you want to depict Mitchell's tank, but how do you know it was 4086?  Mitchell writing almost 20 years later says it was 4066 (though I think he was mistaken).  So far as I know we don't know Mitchell's tank's number for certain, though 4086 is a candidate certainly.

I would be most grateful to be credited.

Gwyn 

 

 

Hi, treizecinq!