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As part of their World War One exhibition at the Tank Museum they have a Mark IV tank attacking a trench.
It’s complete with mud and all. I can’t begin to imagine the shock of being at the receiving end of such an attack.
You get to really understand how massive and threatening these machines of war were.
This was one of the many displays at the Tank Museum in Bovington, which I saw when I visited the wargaming show there in 2016.
With the gas masks and all, it was rather creepy and threatening.
Italian WW1 4×2 1.5-ton light truck at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford.
Used in large numbers by the British Army during the First World War.
Imperial War Museum Duxford is a branch of the Imperial War Museum near Duxford in Cambridgeshire, and on a recent visit I was able to take a range of photographs of the aircraft and tanks on display.
In the Land Warfare Exhibit is a variety of vehicles and weapons from the Great War, including this FWD Model ‘B’ 4×4 truck.
FWD was an American truck company. The FWD Model B was an American built four-wheel drive truck produced by the Four Wheel Drive Auto Company that saw widespread service with American and British forces during the First World War.
There are quite a few artillery pieces on display at the Imperial War Museum Duxford in their Land Warfare exhibit.
This is a German 7.7cm Field Gun from World War One.
The gun on the right is a British 18 pounder quick firing field gun. The one on the left an American M1917 75mm field gun, based on the British 18 pounder.
This is a German 21cm Heavy Howitzer or Mortar.
The 21 cm Mörser 10 (21 cm Mrs 10) was a heavy howitzer used by Germany in World War I (although classified as a mortar (Mörser) by the German military).
As well as the guns there was also a trench train. Well a British MM15 War Department Light Railways Motor Rail 40hp ‘Simplex’ Petrol Tractor to be precise.
For use on the two foot War Department Light Railway.
The War Department Light Railways were a system of narrow gauge trench railways run by the British War Department in World War I. Light railways made an important contribution to the Allied war effort in the First World War, and were used for the supply of ammunition and stores, the transport of troops and the evacuation of the wounded.
The Retronaut website has a great series of images of tanks from World War One in one of their recent blog posts.
If you are thinking about making some scenery for games in this period, these photographs really do give you some interesting ideas.
There are a fair few images of damaged or immobilised tanks and so again useful guidance when making abandoned tanks as scenic pieces.
If you want to see a fantastic looking demonstration game from World War One, then here are some photographs from Aly Morrison’s excellent game at GamesDay 2007.
Weta (the special effects guys behind the Lord of the Rings
They have built a working replica Mark IV Tank!