Vickers and Lewis machine guns

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I am building a 1/6 scale of the British SE5a Scout. The full scale was armed with a modified Vickers machine gun, and a Lewis gun on a Foster mount.

Williams Brothers used to produce scale kits for these two guns, but have gone out of business.

So, I am trying to locate any detailed photos, drawings, plans, articles - basically, any information to assist me in accurately scratch building these items in 1/5 or 1/6 scale.

Any help appreciated.

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First off-- a site with some 3D models that a few friends of mine were developing:

http://www.wingswithwires.com/bop/armaments.asp

OK-- here is a site that has some scale models of it for sale-- not sure which as I can’t read the language:

http://www.little-bellanca.com/shopping/result.php?MD=CA&CI=0049&MK=Y

Another couple sites for pics of the Vickers:

http://storage.mfa.free.fr/morphoto4uk.html

http://204.83.160.230/archive/a/images/camel_vickers.jpg

And the Lewis:

http://204.83.160.230/archive/a/images/lewis_re8.jpg
http://storage.mfa.free.fr/se5photo4uk.html

A Google search brings up lots of pics-- butmany of them are of the infantry version of the guns…not sure if there was a difference…

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Greetings rmarnold and Jeeves here’s abit more.
http://www.wwi-models.org/Photos/Guns/Bri/index.html

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Air Age Publications, the folks who do Model Airplane News, have a book “Scale Aircraft Drawings, Volume 1, World War I”. It has the Lewis, Vickers & lots of good old yester-year drawings of WW1 aircraft. Inexpensive & worth every penny.

John

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rmarnold, here is a link where you might find machine gun. Skinny Bob
http://www.retail-leaders.com/logos/retailleaders.gif

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I took this at the Curtiss museum last year. Hope it helps.