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Miniatures Adventure => Back of Beyond => Topic started by: Phil Robinson on 03 October 2009, 09:46:21 PM

Title: Civil War Tanks Restored
Post by: Phil Robinson on 03 October 2009, 09:46:21 PM

Picked this up over on TMP

http://englishrussia.com/?p=5241

As one poster on TMP said its a long way from Wolverhampton!

Title: Re: Civil War Tanks Restored
Post by: former user on 03 October 2009, 10:19:53 PM

interesting to see that early armour plating breaks

Title: Re: Civil War Tanks Restored
Post by: Bako on 05 October 2009, 12:07:52 AM

Wow, excellent. There's always something interesting on EnglishRussia.

Title: Re: Civil War Tanks Restored
Post by: d phipps on 05 October 2009, 05:27:15 AM

Sweet!

Title: Re: Civil War Tanks Restored
Post by: sukhe_bator on 05 October 2009, 10:16:32 AM

For one of the best accounts of WWI tank warfare and what it was like for the crews read:
http://www.amazon.com/Ironclads-Cambrai-First-Great-Battle/dp/0304363634
By all accounts it was hell just being inside one moving along without being shot at as well. The boiler plate armour was prone to cracking and shattering, showering the crew with sharp shrapnel flakes. It was MG and external shrapnel proof, but nowhere near as protective as most people think.

Title: Re: Civil War Tanks Restored
Post by: former user on 05 October 2009, 05:25:47 PM

I read somewhere, guess it was Osprey's red Armour of RCW, that the inside of the Garford Putilov was lined with felt - now I know why