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Model Forum / General / Models / January 2006emhar
got the male and hermaphrodite today. they look pretty decent. now to find good colors. > got the male and hermaphrodite today. they look pretty > decent. now to find good colors. That's the hard way to breed them. It may only work half the time. Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. ;) >> got the male and hermaphrodite today. they look pretty >> decent. now to find good colors. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. >;) wizz azz. I always thought that the male was the one the big gun and the one without the big gun but the machine guns was called a female. A hermaphrodite is usually neither one or the other but can breed by itself ? > I always thought that the male was the one the big gun and the one > without the big gun but the machine guns was called a female. A > hermaphrodite is usually neither one or the other but can breed by > itself ? "Males" have a 6-pounder and a machine-gun in each sponson, "Females" have two machine-guns in each sponson; "Hermaphrodites" have one of each kind of sponson :-) I think you have to put a left-handed one and a right-handed one together to get a breeding pair...... >> I always thought that the male was the one the big gun and the one >> without the big gun but the machine guns was called a female. A [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > of sponson :-) I think you have to put a left-handed one and a > right-handed one together to get a breeding pair...... I think they just added a six pound gun to a female. I'm not sure it matters where? B.H. >>> I always thought that the male was the one the big gun and the one >>> without the big gun but the machine guns was called a female. A [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > I think they just added a six pound gun to a female. I'm not sure it matters > where? Well, I think we can safely say it wasn't in place of the front machine gun :-) The 6-pdr sponson is quite different from the 2-mg sponson, both deeper and wider. The sponsons could be removed quite easily, indeed they were taken off to make the tank narrow enough to fit on rail wagons for transport. The first Hermaphrodites could even have been a mistake, afer all it is difficult to see both sides of a Mk.1 at once.... But you are right, in the sense that the hermaphrodite was an upgunned female, deemed necessary to counter the enemies use of captured tanks to oppose them. >> I always thought that the male was the one the big gun and the one >> without the big gun but the machine guns was called a female. A [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >kind of sponson :-) I think you have to put a left-handed one and a >right-handed one together to get a breeding pair...... nope, all it takes is a fifth. >I always thought that the male was the one the big gun and the one >without the big gun but the machine guns was called a female. A >hermaphrodite is usually neither one or the other but can breed by >itself ? the h has big guns and machine guns and goes to bars in bad neighborhoods looking for someone obscure ritual called "rough trade". There seems to be some doubt as to early tank colors in older publications, and it appears that official orders on the subject were discarded over the intervening decades. The earliest Mk I tanks were reportedly finished in overall battleship gray (befitting their origin with the Admiralty), but later a multi-color dazzle scheme was adopted. However, due to the track layout, the hull was soon covered by filth, obscuring any painted patterns, so the dazzle scheme was abandoned and Mk IV's seem to have been one overall color. Some authors favor Khaki Green, others an overall medium brown. Osprey will be releasing a book on the Mk. IV tank series shortly, so it's color plates should have the latest research on WW 1 colors, and presumably, the Mk. V's were similarly painted. (Osprey's book on the Mk I is now available). In the absence of the Osprey book, period paintings would probably be the best reference, since military artists would have researched the colors used (paintings after the 1920's might not be trustworthy, though, as the information would have been lost by then). Gerald Owens |
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