After a long break,ive just started on the body....hopefully progress will speed up a bit from now on.
Last photo of the turret......now starting on the body.This photo shows the hatch catches installed.....you can just see the tiny spring on the...
Some criticize its 6pdr gun.However,the 6pdr was a good weapon against armour particularly when matched with the later ap rounds.The sabot was...
Really overlooked vehicle........but with a fascinating history.Old fashioned design,slow,flat armour,some say undergunned,but.............amazing...
He'll be glad i don't live next door to him......i'd be pestering him every five minutes about it......i wish somebody would park one by...
Just watched The longest day again after reading this thread........it's a good long filmwith some great actors and one where you need to have a...
So what you are saying then is that the sherman crew may not have had the experience they needed to use the ap rounds that they obviously had an...
They would have known the capability of their own gun against different armour thicknesses at different combat ranges.They certainly would have...
Firstly,the tiger got two shots off at virtually point blank range,i think this would have caused more than a hydraulic fluid leak,regardless of...
Ok film but the sherman/tiger fight and the last battle scene were hardly realistic.The sherman would'nt have lasted a couple of minutes against a...
A few more pics......gun is nearly done and i've done some work on the periscopes.Next are the catches that keep the hatches open.I'm hoping the...
If you want to watch anything about the American airborne assault during the war,Band of Brothers is absolutely unbelievable viewing.I've watched...
Hi Alan......don't tempt me lol. I think the turret is about 17kg at the moment but that will increase by quite a bit when all the running gear is...
Cheers Otto......i'll have a couple more pics on at the weekend.......it's taking a while due to other commitments and the fact i'm making...
A picture of my Churchill mk3 project.The model is all steel but due to other commitments is taking some time.The turret is pictured sitting on...
Das Boot.......now that was a war film,one of the greatest ever made.
You are correct,all the good actors left are either too old or have done good war films before ie,Ed Harris,Hanks etc etc. Some films such as the...
You hit the nail on the head there.Towards the latter stages of the war,the 109 was being flown by increasingly inexperienced pilots who could'nt...
I think you are taking this too literally.The pilots in question were comparing the 109 to other similar fighters ie monoplane fighters and models...
Both the pilots fly all types of ww2 fighters including spitfires,p51's etc,etc.Their assessment after many hours on all types of ww2 fighter...
