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  1. Egilman
    Well, when they were shipped to the British starting in 1915, they had them, most made it to France with them, and some were even captured with them... 1915 test track... 1918 BEF France... Pulling an 8" Howitzer 1918 France sitting idle.. 1917 German captured... They may not have used them when the photos were taken, but most of them had the rods and awning supports.... and if they had been in service for any length of time the awnings seldom rolled up smooth on the rods, usually it was easier to fold them rather than roll them, that is why they look flat in most pics or have that scalloped edge when folded......
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    They were actually awnings used during rain to shed water off the crew who usually stood or sat on the running boards when operating...
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    OK, My allotment of stupid question for the day... {chuckle} What type of wire is what I probably should have asked...
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    Oh yes, the stuff that seemed to push your blades around to everywhere you didn't want to cut..... They look mighty nice in their civilian colors, (green & black with red letters) shame it has to be a military paint job.... What are you going to use for wire? there's only room for one wire bundle, between the wire loom tube and the magneto, the actual spark plug connection is molded in the plastic.... (that tube running down the right side of the engine that curls up to the heads)
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    {chuckle} ...... Been there done that... It always pays to keep the pre requirements completed... (well worth the process if I might say) I'm always down for carrier aircraft.... And the Buc's a big one....
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    Well, historically, you could do a wooden tugboat hull in the process of being rebuilt... Say about 1934-35 or so, post an old worn out name plank titled "Wallowa" leaning up against the office and a new one named "Arthur Foss" leaning right next to it.... She's the oldest wooden tugboat in the world.... Time period would be the time she was rebuilt in Tacoma, (main deck up, they also did some hull work) after starring in the MGM production of "Tugboat Annie"..... Check her out, She has a rich history being one of only two boats from the Alaska Gold rush still afloat, A movie star, She was involved in the construction of all three of the great west coast bridges, (Golden Gate, Tacoma Narrows & the Lake Washington floating bridge) she was the last ship out of Wake Island before the Japanese took it.... A very rich history.... Would add to the nautica here for sure... Sorry bout that, the historian comes out in me from time to time.... Anything you do Grant would be wonderful....
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    NAH!!! One of the players for sure, but it takes all of them to make it shine..... You doing a Foss boat brother or a generic?
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    Yep, and eventually Holt became the Caterpillar Corporation.... And, in 1914, they were the first to provide the military with a steerable tracked tractor, the two and a half, five and ten ton artillery tractors.... The five ton was especially useful pulling everything up to 155mm... This greatly eased the pressure on the Holts which then were used exclusively for the heavy artillery and vehicle recovery.... Commander models does the five ton in resin.... Nothing advances technology and engineering faster than warfare.... (what does that say about mankind, {chuckle})
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    1903 Technology, clutched and braked differential steering for tracked units hadn't been adopted when Holt was designing their tractors.....
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    A kinda soft styrene they have been using recently... I have the same thing here, not only is the mating edge uneven it is rounded instead of having a sharp corner.... To a modeler it is a minor issue, we know how to fix it, but it becomes a frustration when they fail to handle the basics of good mold making.... I hear ya Greg....
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    When I get around to mine, I probably wouldn't go that far..... Nice work....
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    Where I live, all you would need is the bill of materials and the vin for the car the engine came out of.... They would assign it a new VIN and then title and register it... Although the assessor will argue over value, generally it would be valued at the cost of the materials to build it.... Easy easy way to get a hot car for little money.... The P/W for that must be just under a light crotch rocket, with twice the traction.... {BSEG)
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    I have three of them as well and after looking them over, I have to admit it going to take some work to bring the tractors up to the level of the gun as far as crisp clean detail.... But I'm sure you can do it....
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    Another masterpiece in motion..... I'm in brother, wouldn't miss it!!!
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    It was my pleasure, remember research is my second hobby.... Pay it forward brother, that's what I'm doing for those that helped me.... thank you...
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    Mike, Superlative... beautiful presentation.... Master modeler level work.... Finescale Modeler, eat your heart out!!!! It belongs on the cover of a magazine my friend....
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    Very Very close to pre-war deck grey brother.... In real life it would be gloss with embedded grit for traction, you've got the scale representation down my friend.... I love it! Simple, but stunningly beautiful mike.... Another masterpiece model.... Well done...
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    Short answer is kinda, they had the towing capacity for sure, the 10 ton & 20 ton holt tractors, The 5 & 10 ton Macks and the 5 Ton Standard B truck that could pull anything mostly it was cause the wheels on the carriages couldn't stand up to off road towing and they were predominantly non split trail carriages... (which were much lighter than a standard carriage) The light guns did move as one unit but still used caissons and limbers for mobility... The 9.2" howitzer broke down into three loads, the 8" Mk VI & VII as well the 240mm French Howitzer was three loads... The two PDF's I posted to Greg on the artillery earlier in the thread breaks this down in detail... In essence this was the period where they were transitioning from horse drawn to mechanized... At the start of the war they still hauled most of the artillery with horse teams.... In fact I'm going to do a horse team gun to go with my WWI artillery collection... Probably a French 75 in US service....
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    Yep, hot water soak and light persuasion usually brings it back into shape.... Nice start....
  20. Egilman
    The Great Great grandchild of the 10 ton Mack AC... And the last of the chain drive trucks with narrow panel cabs.... From this they designed and build the 10 ton Mack NO's of WWII fame... The original haul anything anywhere trucks... Beautiful rendition my friend... She looks great...
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    Turning out stunningly beautiful, in an engineering sort of way.... The future of modeling.....
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    It's a demolition machine for medium grade jobs... I've seen on in operation pull down a 4400 sq foot 2 floor, (8800 total sq ft) steel framed brick walled machine shop in abut 6 hours leaving it in piles for the loaders to load into trucks... Very efficient and powerful machines... Another one was observed to rip off the entire roof of a stick built home in 30 seconds then taking another minute to cut it up.... I'm down for this one....
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    Excellent! I'll also add the 1920 version as well... That will give you an idea of what we had at the armistice and then three years later when we adopted the best of such equipment as standard issue and disposed of the rest... I think you will do this piece justice.... They went overseas in dark navy grey overall, and in the midst of the battalion getting trained they were being painted in the standard pattern agreed upon by the allies of the time, Dirt Brown, (dark kahki) Medium Green (British Army Green in irregular splotches) and the resulting splotches bordered by 4" black stripes.... and of course everything that touched the ground was splattered in muted mud brown liquid with chunks of sticky mud stuck to everything on and around the underbelly.... {chuckle} if anyone can do it justice you can brother... Here's an example... They are both 6" naval guns the front one is the 1905 on the M1917 carriage depicted in the kit with the standard camo applied, the rear gun is a 6" M1903 naval gun on the same carriage in it's shipping paint of dark Navy Grey... This is going to be a fantastic build... 1918 Handbook of Ordanace Data.pdf Handbook of artillery including mobile, anti-aircraft and trench materiel 1920.pdf
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    I'm sure they did it that way when necessary, but the standard train for the 6" 1905 Gun was the Carriage on its limber pulled by the Holt tractor or a Standard "B" 5 ton truck with the Barrel transport wagon on it's limber hooked up to the carriage while carrying the gun barrel.... The second tractor or truck would be hauling a couple of caissons and the tool/repair wagon hooked as a train as well... They would then have a couple of two or three ton trucks to haul the crew... The FWD or the Nash would be a good period piece to represent this.... The Officers were usually riding in a White command (reconnaissance) car.... There were other pieces included in the train as well but not too many pics of them out there and they would have to be scratch built, (the forge trailer, the gun director trailer and parts trailer.... An artillery train for a full battery would consist of over 50 vehicles to haul four guns with all their accoutrements... A full artillery battalion would be over 250 vehicles for 12-16 guns.... Only four vehicles we had could haul the heavy gun trains, the Holt 75 & 150 tractors, the Standard "B" 5 ton Truck and the Mack AC 5 ton or ten ton.... This is according to the US Army Manual of Artillery dated November 1918... Just after the armistice.... I have a copy of it if you would like it... EG
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    It's a very nice model... The Holt 75 was one of the prime movers for it, the Holt 150 and the Standard "B" Liberty Truck were the others The Holt 75 pulled everything the AEF had at one time or another, your images show the Mk VI 8" howitzer the GPF 155mm gun and the 9.2" howitzer in it's triple train.... It's a shame the 6" never got to be used in actual combat... Going to be an excellent build.... I'm in... (wouldn't miss it for the world)

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