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...
Thanks!