KSM Club Boot Swap & Sell

KSM Club Boot Swap & Sell

Read Time: 2 minutes KSM 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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Railway Sleepers 1914 – 1945

Read Time: 4 minutes Crosstie 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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Private No 2296 John (Barney) Hines of the Australian Imperial Force, 45th Battalion. 27 September 1917. Third Battle of Ypres

Tale of Private № 2296: John (Barney) Hines

Read Time: 5 minutes Stranger 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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Fleeing Hostilities

Read Time: < 1 minute On 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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One Lucky Guy

Read Time: < 1 minute Helmet 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

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Always A Beginner

Read Time: < 1 minute Modelling 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

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Panzerspähwagen P 204(f) German Armoured Railway Car WWII by ICM Review

Read Time: 5 minutes Schienen-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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InSCALE Simmering Graz Pauker Sla 16 Engine. Airintake turbochargers and cooling fans absent

TIGER II TANK 16 CYL AIR COOLED DIESEL ENGINE

Read Time: 9 minutes KING 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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