Mark Iv

[Figurenfreund66]

I found this article, maybe it'd be interested in one or the other?

http://crid1418.org/espace_scientifique/archeo/char_flesquieres_1.htm

Hendryk

 

[megroot]

Nice find.
I always wonder that this kind of subjects are so deep under the ground.
Where is the soil coming from that covers a subject like this so high.
Is this one felt into a crater???? There where alot of bombcraters and shellholes around Cambrai.

marc

 

[baronband]

Great article Hendryk,
the photos are amazing i have wondered before what one of these great beasts would look like unearthed!
John

 

[housecarl]

Fascinating, thanks for posting Hendryk.
Carl.

 

[Helm]

Excellent find Hendryk who'd have thought it

Steve

 

[Figurenfreund66]

Thanks guys !

Marc - this hole was dug by the Germans to a bunker, or build something similar, but no longer as the somehow went, this one has sunk downed MarkIV therein and used as shelter!
That's how I understood it at least!

Hendryk

 

[Mirofsoft]

Thanks guys !

Marc - this hole was dug by the Germans to a bunker, or build something similar, but no longer as the somehow went, this one has sunk downed MarkIV therein and used as shelter!
That's how I understood it at least!

Hendryk

Correct, was use as a bunker
More important, only 5 pieces arround the world + the one already known served mainly as training vehicle and lacked the internal war equipment
This one contains ammunition boxes, spareparts boxes, signal board etc
English participates already to the renovation
This one is a goo addition, if the local administration does something

 

[Silversurfer]

Hi all,
I have read this story several times ago and it inspired me to build a little diorama with one of these tanks, but not in a battlescene.
The scene shows a Mk.II female of 4th (D) Bn. Royal Tank Corps. It is D6 "Devil May Care" on the 20.November 1917 at
Flesquières, France until the battle of Arras with some men of the 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers.
The Tank was lost at the same day, hit by an artillery volley and burnt out.
I convertet the Mk.II out of the Airfix Mk.??? female with infos of the famous Landships.com side. Scale is 1:72.
Hope, you´ll like it.

Cheers Thomas

 

[Figurenfreund66]

Hi Thomas

looks great, and in 1:72 - fantastic

Hendryk

 

[Silversurfer]

Thank you Hendryk

 

[Mirofsoft]

Very good work