Read Time: 2 minutesKSM Club Boot Swap & Sell Barbecue July 27th, 10:00 am to 2 pm. This is the second fabulous event everyone has been waiting for. Rain or Shine Ample Parking: RSVP KSM Club Boot Swap & Sell LocationCommunity Living Trent HighlandsLower Level Meeting Room205 McLaughlin Road, Lindsay Location details: https://kawarthascalemodellers.com/
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Read Time: 4 minutesCrosstie Use During WWI & WWII From original publications and source material: “It is estimated that there are at present throughout the world about 1,250,000 kilometres of railway track for which approximately 3,000 million railway sleepers (cross-ties) are used, 95 percent of them made of wood. Since railway sleepers are heavy, bulky, and relatively cheap,
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Read Time: 5 minutesStranger Than Fiction Colourful – Larger Than Life Character John (Barney) Hines The extraordinary apocryphal tale of Private, No 2296, John (Barney) Hines, of the Australian Imperial Force, 45th Battalion. Photo: September 27, 1917. A great coffee read. The Story ‘Barney’ Hines was also a kleptomaniac who became known in the trenches as the “Souvenir
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Read Time: < 1 minuteOn the Run Moving out of harm’s way Great colourization. Gotta luv the tracks. Moving out of harm’s way17 pdr. gun) of ‘B’ Squadron of the East Riding Yeomanry, 33rd Armoured Brigade, came to a halt at the Esso Petrol station on the ‘Wilhelmina-Square’, October, 1944, Den Bosch, Noord-Brabant Province, The Netherlands. Mr. Jo Van
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Read Time: < 1 minuteHelmet Prevents Bad Hair Day February 23, 1945 The (unconfirmed) information I managed to find concerning this photo states that the smiling US soldier was from the 104th Infantry Division and his name was Private E. J. Johnson, a native of Muskegon, Michigan. He is being carried to the rear by German POW’s under armed
Read Time: < 1 minuteThe Lost Generation of 1923 WWII Soviet Red Army Trivia It’s estimated that approximately 80% of the Russian male population born in 1923 perished in WWII. Noting how Soviet underreporting was rampant, the figure may be much higher.
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Read Time: < 1 minuteModelling is an interesting hobby because of varying interest levels. When sailors of old ventured beyond the charted world… here be dragons. Some modellers are happy to assemble a favourite vehicle, aircraft, ship, submarine, historical or fantasy figure and paint it a generic service or theme-appropriate colour. Many modellers like to explore the vast array
Read Time: 5 minutesSchienen-Spähpanzer 204 (f) (Rail Scout Car) The French Panhard Voiture Spéciale Type 178 – Panhard 178 Railway Armoured Car in German Service WWII by ICM Kit 35376 Review Military Train and Armoured Train Service Panhard 178 Armoured Car in Railway Operations ICM offers the Panhard 178 designated as the Panzerspähwagen P 204(f) under German Service
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Read Time: 4 minutesTIGER I № 231 ofSchwere Panzer Abteilung 503 After Action Report of 252 hits from various calibres by Red Army anti-tank action. Submitted by TIGER I Tank Commander, Lieutenant Zabel, 1943 This is the account of the experiences of TIGER 231 of the 503th Heavy Tank Battalion, 13rd Armored Regiment Company, part of a German
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Read Time: 9 minutesKING TIGER TANK SGP Sla 1616 Cylinder Air-cooled Diesel Engine (Porsche Type 203) In 1943, Simmering-Graz-Pauker (SGP) in Vienna, Austria was tasked by the Heereswaffenamt (HWA, German Army Weapons Agency) to develop a new main tank engine for the Heer (German Army). The requested engine was an air-cooled diesel that would only require minor modifications
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