Landships II

Mark Hansen · Legend

My AWM trip (Amiens gun)

Peter Kempf · Field Marshal

Mark!

Again: many, many thanks for posting! The AWM is completely out of reach for most of us, and your sharing these photos means A LOT! And their WW1 collection seems to be fantastic.

Again: is it OK if I post these photos, use all your AWM photos on the site? Of course giving you full credit.

All the best

Peter Kempf · Field Marshal

BLOODY HELL!! Pardon my language...

But I just saw that...

This is THE 28cm BRUNO!!! I didn't know that this barrel existed, even less about the details, paint job, etc.

GREAT GREAT GREAT!

Now I can soon build my 5Star 1/72 Kurze Bruno into the WW1 variant.

THANKS!!!!

Mark Hansen · Legend

Peter Kempf wrote:

BLOODY HELL!! Pardon my language...

But I just saw that...

This is THE 28cm BRUNO!!! I didn't know that this barrel existed, even less about the details, paint job, etc.

GREAT GREAT GREAT!

Now I can soon build my 5Star 1/72 Kurze Bruno into the WW1 variant.

THANKS!!!!

No worries! It's a pity that more of the carriage didn't survive. There is another photo that has been displayed outside the railway workshops in Sydney where the gun resided before being carted off to the AWM. Next time I'm near there, I'll try and get a picture of it. It is possible that the photo is in the AWM database.

According to the little plaque, the AWM did their best trying to match the new paint job to the original except they used a gloss paint for better durability in weather.

Mark Hansen · Legend

Peter Kempf wrote:

Mark!

Again: many, many thanks for posting! The AWM is completely out of reach for most of us, and your sharing these photos means A LOT! And their WW1 collection seems to be fantastic.

Again: is it OK if I post these photos, use all your AWM photos on the site? Of course giving you full credit.

All the best

Feel free to use any or all that you think will be useful.

Mark Hansen · Legend

It appears that serendipity also happens. After looking through the AWM online collection, I found a B&W image that almost exactly matches the angle of one of my shots. The camouflage patterns also appear to be very close. If the colours are a good match for the original colours, then it should be possible to get a fairly complete pattern for your model, Peter. I've attached a side-by-side comparison to show you what I mean.

Peter Kempf · Field Marshal

Excellent!!!

And they seem to have done a very ambitious job in reconstructing the actual colours used. Which means that we will have to revise our thinking on German WW1 Arty camo a bit - add to this the museums 7.7cm FK16 with light-blue camo.

ANY material on this gun is welcome, including photos of the photos displayed!

Again: many, many, many thanks. Your photos prompted me to do a small article on the 15cm K16, that you photographed, and that I didn't think exist any more!

All the best