Here’s the 1/72 Emhar kit, practicaly completed in terms of assembly. The machine guns will be added later, once the painting and weathering have been done.
The kit is very easy to build, although the ‘carrying rails’ at the top do ask for a bit of hair-pulling at times… I haven’t got many left anyway, so it was OK…
The Mark IV was the most produced variant of the WWI British rhomboid type of tanks. Like its predecessors, there was a Male version, with larger side sponsons carrying guns as well as machine guns, and a Female version solely armed with machine guns (5 in this case). Several Male or Female were modified into a Hermaphrodite variant… Larger back ‘horns’ (as the narrower parts of the track assembly are called) were developped to improve cross-trenching capabilities and those new ‘horns’ were available as a kit, to be mounted onto the standard Mark IV. Those ‘extended’ Mark IV were called ‘Tadpoles’. The Mark IV first saw action in November 1917 during the Battle of Cambrai. The Mark IV also became the most widely used German tank of WWI…
Now, does anyone here know how the fascine used to fill in trenches were actually fastened to the tank? I can see that the fascine itself is kept together by two lenghts of chain but I can not see how the whole thing is attached to the carrying rails…
It’s good to see a little work from W.W.I every once in a while. Certainly is a forgotten era as far as the model manufacturers are concerned.
As far as the attachment of the facine goes, was it not just chained to the rails themselves, allowing for a fairly quick release. At least that how it appears on some of the pics I have seen in Sherman & Churchill fascine carriers of W.W.II.
Nice Mark IV, DJ.
I’ve toyed with the idea of building their 1/35 kit from time to time, but never followed through.
And, embarassingly enough, I never knew what “male” and “female” meant in regards to this vehicle! Was it simply that the “males” were “beefier” than the more lightly armed “females?”
Very nice, dj. I don’t have any info on your problem, but I couldn’t help commenting on how nice it looks. Keep the pics coming. I know we’d all like to see how it turnes out.
Brian, yes, the differences between ‘Males’, ‘Females’ and ‘Hermaphrodites’ all relate to their weapons, and, directly related, the size and shape of the side sponsons that carried the main part of the armament.
Robert, you know, I did not think checking my refs for WWII… I’ll do that and see how they did it then!
Not a 1/5 scale tank, but a 1/35 scale one. They made the Male, Female and Tadpole.
Males had cannons (big guns)
Females had only machine guns
Hermaphrodites had cannon and machine guns.
They retail at around £19 here in the UK (ie c. $30) but they have been around for a qwhile now and you might get a better deal out of e-Bay or at a show…
A D…Check with Squadron. It seems to me I’ve seen them advertised on their sale page in FSM. Or, conversly, check their sale page in FSM!! (I always come up with the hard way!) But I’m sure I remember seeing 1/72 as well as 1/35 WWI tanks from Emhar (and 1 or 2 others).
Airfix has an old but still very convincing 1/76 Mark I Male (it’s in fact a late Mark II). Emhar has the Mark IV Male and Female kits as well as the German A7V, and is supposedly releasing the Whippet soon. Matchbox had the Renault FT in its range too. Other than those, there are many more kits in metal/resin from cottage manufacturers.
dominique, thx for sharing another classic AFV with us. u almost make me want to build one of these for myself, even though i’m more into the modern scene. i saw some doc footage on History Channel last week… those tanks were big !
keep 'em coming, i love seeing ur stuff !
frosty[:)]
a MKiv female!!!
There I was hoping that someone had developed one that wouldnt nag - but it turned out to be a tank!
Very nice though ,I would love a 1/35th!
