WW1 Tank Drawings

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8 March 2017 at 12:04 #32916
Stewart Hart
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8 March 2017 at 12:04 #287733
Stewart Hart
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A friend is after building a model of a WW1 tank, does any one know where he could get a set of drawings.

I've suggested he contact Bovington tank musium.

Any other suggestion ?.

Stew
8 March 2017 at 12:15 #287735
Speedy Builder5
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try using google and "WW1 Tank Plans" – Quite a lot of info there unless you want every component dimensioned.
8 March 2017 at 12:21 #287736
Jon Gibbs
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How about this site?… **LINK**

HTH

Jon
8 March 2017 at 13:25 #287745
Neil Wyatt
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Stew, you have an email.

Neil
8 March 2017 at 13:26 #287747
Neil Wyatt
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Planning on going to Bovington next week, with any luck!

Neil
8 March 2017 at 19:44 #287831
JA
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Don't neglect the National Archives at Kew.

At this point I was going to recommend looking at their catalogue web site http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ This holds the descriptions of over 30 million documents held by thousands of archives in the UK. However when I searched for "tank" between the dates 1900 & 1925 it came back with 36,000 hits. An awful lot of water tanks.

JA
8 March 2017 at 21:14 #287853
Stewart Hart
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Thanks for the information Chaps looks like my friend should find what he wants from your suggestions:- I've passed them on to him.

Cheers

Stew
9 March 2017 at 05:29 #287895
John Olsen
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Talk to Peter Jackson, he has built a 1:1 scale model.

(Director of "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit&quot

John
9 March 2017 at 10:10 #287927
Ian S C
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John I saw it at the National War Memorial WW1 centenial display before Christmas when I visited Wellington, it could have come straight off the battle field.

Ian S C
9 March 2017 at 10:16 #287930
richardandtracy
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Just had a silly thought. Buy a 1:72 Airfix model & make it bigger. Their research was occasionally quite good.

Regards,

Richard.
9 March 2017 at 10:18 #287931
Stewart Hart
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Posted by richardandtracy on 09/03/2017 10:16:03:

Just had a silly thought. Buy a 1:72 Airfix model & make it bigger. Their research was occasionally quite good.

Regards,

Richard.

Not a silly idea at all, more of a brilliant idea.

Stew
9 March 2017 at 11:59 #287947
Neil Wyatt
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I have one of the Airfix 'Male' models within arms reach, it is excellent.

I also bought their light tank mk VI, which is cute, but about 5% smaller than scale which confused me for a while!

My Bovington quest is to see their real Mk Vib.

Neil
9 March 2017 at 12:22 #287954
richardandtracy
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Until going to Bovington last summer I'd never seen any of the WW1 tanks. Before going it's worth reading 'Tanks in the Great War', download here: **LINK**

Page 74 of the PDF file (book page 44) gives size, speed & range of the various tanks. Fantastic book. There are others in the archive that are well worth a read, being 'The Tank Corps' by Major Clough Williams-Ellis MC and 'The Tank in Action' by Capt D G Browne MC. Both are accounts by people who were in the tanks at the time.

Regards,

Richard.

Edited By richardandtracy on 09/03/2017 12:23:19
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