WW1 Allied Tanks - built from wood

[Ursulescu]

Now that you've seem my wooden Central Powers tanks, it's time to see what the Allies had.


MPC WW1 American Soldier Poses by British Tank


WW1 British Mark IV Femal Tank
Another one of our wooden tank models. My Dad and I built 4 of these back in 1985. This is the only one has the open hatch.


WW1 British Tank Prototype 1
This is a wooden model of a British Prototype Tank.

Although this tank never existed, I think we found the plans for it in a book that had experimental designs in it.


WW1 French Tank 1
A WW1 French St. Chamond tank my Dad and I built out of wood in 1985. At the time, we didn't know that the front of the tank actually angled back 45%.

We built it following a 3/4 frontal view of a WW1 painting of the tank.


The Romanian Soldiers advance alongside a French ST.Chamond Tank. This never actually happened in the war, but it could have because France was suppling Romania with weapons, aircraft and uniforms in WW1. The Romanians just never got the tanks.

[Florin]

You all know that the British introduced the tanks in combat. Occasionally some officers and engineers of other countries had similar ideas, but no one wanted to listen.

The name "tank" appeared not because of the gasoline tank of the vehicle, but because of the secrecy surrounding the project. The workers assembling the exterior (the armor) were told that actually the blue prints are for water tanks to supply the British units fighting in the desert, in the Middle East.

[Ursulescu]

That's true!

I'm glad someone finally responded. I thought everyone here on this forum went "home" or to sleep.

[dead-cat]

there are also a few more recent ww1 tank kits, mainly from emhar 1:72 and 1:35.
http://www.landships.freeservers.com/