Hi there from Germany!

[Trencher]

*stands up and clears his throat*

Hi,
my name is Patrick and I am a lead addict.

I've hoarded some 28mm minis for SciFi Wargaming (although very low-tech and WWI-ish...), some 15mm minis (in the same setting...), some 6mm for VSF and some 3mm for a Fantasy setting.
I'd like to start with WWI in 10mm, as there are many beautiful miniatures around and because it's an IMHO interesting period. After having read "Fights and Flights" by Charles Rumney Samson, I'd like to build me an Early War R.N.A.S. force with armoured cars and lorries (aye - some more scratchbuildig jobs ahead...) for some clashes with German Uhlan patrols.
Well, these are my plans so far...

*sits down quietly*

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Have fun with it.

IanS

[nikharwood]

Welcome Patrick 

[OldenBUA]

Hello Patrick,

Welcome to the house of fun. There are many other similar cases around here, so you'll feel right at home. Building 'The Dunkirk Circus' looks like an interesting project! I'd like to see how you get on with it, it certainly has a lot of charm.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Hello there, sound like fun projects

[Trencher]

Thank you for your friendly welcome!

I've seen some nice WWI eye-candy on this forum. Especially the vehicles look nice an with a lot of conversion potential...




That means if one is bold and not shy to use a Dremel...

[Pruneau]

Welcome to the forum!

[Hertsblue]

Welcome. WW1 is a much misunderstood period. Try and get hold of a copy of Mud, Blood and Poppycock by Gordon Corrigan if you want some of the hoarier myths dispelled.

Good luck

[Arsenus]

Welcome here!

[Leon]

Hi Patrick, welcome to the Forum!   

[Maenoferren]

Hi Patrick, welcome to the forum 

[Trencher]

Welcome. WW1 is a much misunderstood period. Try and get hold of a copy of Mud, Blood and Poppycock by Gordon Corrigan if you want some of the hoarier myths dispelled.

Good luck

Thanks for the hint. The whole period (including the years after the end of WWI) is very interesting, as it contains the post-war civil unrests in Germany as well as the usage of armoured cars in those conflicts.
I'm a great fan of armoured car (and bi-plane...) action, be it with "The Dunkirk Circus", the wide spectrum of armoured cars used in the civil unrests in Germany, the exploits of the 11H in Lybia 1940 or in Iraq 1941.

[Pruneau]

Blackadder goes forth is another excellent source of information about the conflict from the point of view of the trench soldier! 

[Steve J]

Hi Patrick, welcome on board. Don't forget the armoured cars were used rather widely post WWI in Russia supporting the Whites, IIRC. Bryan Perret has a good chapter on these in his good book, "Iron Fist".

[Trencher]

Blackadder goes forth is another excellent source of information about the conflict from the point of view of the trench soldier!  

Funny that you mention Blackadders exploits in the Great War from 1914-1917 (Cappucino - anyone? ).
Well yeah - Rowan Atkinson. When serving in the army (armoured recce) in the early 1990s, my CO looked like him. So every exercise, our watchword was M(ister)-B(ean).

Hi Patrick, welcome on board. Don't forget the armoured cars were used rather widely post WWI in Russia supporting the Whites, IIRC. Bryan Perret has a good chapter on these in his good book, "Iron Fist".

My source on post-WWI use of armoured cars so far is a book about armoured cars in German service, which includes armoured car action on the Eastern Front as well as post-WWI with various Freikorps units fighting in the Baltic area. So you see, there are much books that I missed so far.