Hello,
I want to open this topic with the WW1 searchlight car to know if this subject can be interesting for the modelers.
I need your opinions !
I find this cars on net

I would be interested
/ Robin

If some one have more information ( photos or drawings -) please tell me .

French Army vehicles :

Here are two Renault EE's (just like the one in your picture #4):





Full size

A heavier one :





Full size


Interesting uniforms



This one belonged to a Fusiliers-Marins unit (1916):



Full size

and a 1912 Aries :




H.P.

Merci Henri-Pierre,
La photos d'hiver j'ai pas.
Vous avez des dimensions pour le Berliet ?
Aussi j'ajoute d'autres photos
So the Searchlight vehicles will be interesting in 1/35 scale ?

You mean the one in picture #3 ? In fact it's a Renault (EP ?) truck. Here's another one :



I'll see if I can find more info.

H.P.

Some others photos
De Dion Bouton

Brasier

This is the Berliet

OOOPS I'm no expert

Here's another Berliet :



Full size

H.P.

I would definitely be interested, I love modeling and looking at The Great War subjects.

WoW........

Good stuff, I like very much vehicles of great war.
Would be great build one of them.With great pleasure I will be watching this topic. Beautiful in these pictures is how people can cope with the adjustment of the usual vehicles for special needs.

If you can find any of the old Revell (ex-Gowland) Highway Pioneers or Pyro Brass Age car kits, you have the basis for the cars. Minicraft re-released the former series about 20-25 years ago.These were all 1/32nd scale, and there are searchlight kits either in resin or styrene in 1/35th.

Here's another one used by French AA batteries near Calais :



Full size

H.P.

Very interesting subject, indeed! I think the base vehicles in their original form or with different conversions might also be popular.

Christian,
I am curious is the German army was use in WW1 similar vehicles ??

The German equivalents I've found so far appear to be using horse-drawn carriages like these :





but they probably used car/truck mounted searchlights as well....(why not ? )

H.P.

Thanks Frenchy for the images! Unfortunately, I have zero knowledge of this topic

I was find some vehicles of German army

Here's another French searchlight car :



More close-ups here

On a side note, the truck in the first picture in Dan's last post is Austro-Hungarian, not German

H.P.