okay, http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3641/3507394917_6cace4020a_o.jpg This the Emhar box art of a MkA Whippet showing German marking, apparently there is a story of a single captured British tank, and as with the male and female tanks, the German's would display their own markings, the problem is, I can't find anything on the internet showing a whippet with German markings or for that matter what colour it might have been, so rather than make a guess and get everything wrong, could I possibly ask the following question's - 1. where would the german markings appear on the Whippet - 2. what colour would the tank be, single, or cow camo ? and finally 3. would you simply throw caution to the wind and simply make your own best guess on this little problem. Look forward to your answer's.

Hi Alec,

If you can get your hands on Osprey's "German Panzers 1914-18", there is a photo on the page 36 showing - I believe - this particular vehicle (originally from NARA archive). According to this source, at least 2 Whippets were captured during the fighting in spring 1918 and repaired back to the running order by the BAKP 20 (Bayerischer Armee-Kraftwagen-Park, special unit in charge of salvaging and repairing tanks) facility in Charleroi. It also mentions that alhough those machines were highly reagarded by German tank units commander Capt. Bornschlegel, this type was never used in combat by Germans due their preference of tanks armored with guns.

UPDATE: I've found the mentioned picture over at Landships (click on the 6th thumbnail in the "In Action" section, their hosting apparently doesn't allow remote picture linking). BTW, it's a great site for WWI military subjects, strongly recommended!

HTH

-A-

Has anyone else ever noticed no one actually likes the great war WW1 ? At a quick glance there's 3 threads dealing with WW1 with something like a combined 3000 views with less then 40 people leaving their remarks, I'm not smart enough to work out the sums of 3000 into 40 what percent this would be, I would like to say sorry for having a moan about this, but I can't help myself as I always feel, if someone can read a thread, look at the pix and can't be bothered to leave a comment, even if its "yep fine build" its an acknowlegement that you're heading in the right direction, or am I the only one on this site that feels this way ? I'd honestly like to know.

Yeah there are times when I browse this site when I think that the only kits people are building are some variant of a sheramn with this that or the other thing on left road wheel that only was used until oct' 43 or the likes. But that is the way things are with such things, abundance of references and kits lead to some things being much more popular then others on here.

Plus with WW1 subjects, armor wise the selection is pretty slim, and not well represented by any kit manufacturers at all. Top that with the spotty reference material on them, its not a terribly huge shock that there isnt much activity on that particular section of the forum.

It is a shame because there are some fairly interesting vehicles from the time period, but it is what it is.

And I can say from personally, I would love to do a MarkIV or V as a break from the normal kits I do, but as of yet, I have yet to see a kit of either reviewed to my liking.

I browse this site and one or two others but visit Landships each time I am on the net. I only make models as a hobby but found I could'nt keep up with all the latest must have's to make every mark of tank produced during WW2. I gave up and then started modelling WW1and have found it far more rewarding . I have to make all the improvements on each model due to the lack of 8lb of brass and convert/scratchbuild my figures. I enjoy the research instead of looking at shopping lists and the number of subjects I want to model means I will have to find the secret to eternal life
But then each to their own I guess
Paul

Yes Rob Langer! How about that german Benz-Arkauer half-track? It looks like a proto-Sd.Kfz with Orion Panzer-like track running gear.

I would love to see more WW1 kits! DML quality figures sets, crew served MG teams and the various tanks and armored cars would be a nice change of pace.

WW1 stuff is a vast area that the model companies can produce. Loads of different figures . Lots of field guns , some tanks , horse drawn ambulances on and on .What are they waiting for ? Who knows ? Maybe they are waiting till we all finally get brain damaged with so much WW2 German stuff.

I like WW1 -if you can say that about a conflict
I've read plenty of history books on it and have some uniform reference material as well as some 1/35 scale figure.
However in my preferred scale- 1/35 the kits available are either innaccurate or prohibitively expensive.