Quote from: cameronian on 07 October 2012, 09:42:35 AM
No Lemmey, the brass strip down the back will be too broad/the wrong mix of copper and tin/too long/too short/won't end in a trefoil/will end in a trefoil/be the 1864 pattern/won't be the 1864 pattern  .... get the drift.

At the risk of being a bore did you chaps click on the links to the YOUTUBE animations of the Montigny and Reffye Mitrailleuses I posted earlier? If not and you haven't seen them before, can I suggest that PLEASE you have a look, they're simply fascinating and show the mechanics of both models in perfect, moving, detail.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO3haWrRtrY&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=497Htfzz1nc&feature=relmfu

Absolutely brilliant and so clear. And so much ingenuity harnessed to such a dreadful purpose! 

Quote from: mad lemmey on 07 October 2012, 10:04:02 AM
Cameronian
They were superb links.
Does make you wonder what the actual battlefield reload speed was like?
You can see a well drilled and sitedunit would have caused havoc

They did on occasion, forget the name but the engagement on the other side of the Moselle as Bazaine pulled back saw some real carnage.

Quote from: Hertsblue on 07 October 2012, 10:10:06 AM
Absolutely brilliant and so clear. And so much ingenuity harnessed to such a dreadful purpose! 

Killing Germans ... dreadful purpose, guess we're from different generations Herts 

QuoteKilling Germans ... dreadful purpose, guess we're from different generations Herts

Hey, we're not that bad 

Great videos! Gets me interested in this period AGAIN!

Quote from: cameronian on 07 October 2012, 11:47:37 AM
Killing Germans ... dreadful purpose, guess we're from different generations Herts 

Despite everything, the Jerries have probably done more good in the world than any other group of people. Ask any music-lover.

Quote from: cameronian on 07 October 2012, 11:47:37 AM
Killing Germans ... dreadful purpose, guess we're from different generations Herts 

I don't think so. I am fairly long in the tooth myself.

joke ?

Nice vids, especially the Mitrailleuse ones, such simple individual components used to great effect.

Killing Germans !!! Great effect !!! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo *runs from room screaming*

Quote from: cameronian on 07 October 2012, 07:32:17 AM
Rob have you read 'The Advance to Mons' by Walter Bloem, a German reserve officer in a Guards Grenadier regiment; first hand account of coming up against British regulars and the 'mad minute', heart warming stuff - if you're not German!

Sorry Cameronian for the late response.

No I haven’t read that book. However, you got me thinking about a history documentary I saw many years ago, it may have been the eighties. It was about First Ypres and the climax of the German attack which involved the German Guards. In the program a British veteran was interviewed who was there at the time. In his description he said they could not see the Germans because it was foggy but could hear them and opened a rapid fire into them which they kept up for some considerable time. Later when the fog cleared they discovered they had been firing into a tall barrier of German bodies that had built up in front of them unseen by both sides in the fog.

I have never been able to corroborate this from histories of the battle, and I was wondering if this incident was in the book you mentioned.

Those mitrailleuse vids are great, I have always wondered how they worked.

Cheers, Rob 

Ages since i read it Rob but its been reprinted and is readily available on amazon etc.

Fascinating discussion on the Pickle-wotsit-helmet ... in 10mm there could be uniform crimes being committed that need to come before the Hague Tribunal.

Moderator, in need a moderator over here.