Oct
The combat engineers of the American army were one of the main protagonists in Ardennes, December 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge. In fact, the outcome of this battle could not really be understood without the important contribution of these specialised troops. During the first moments of the offensive Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein (Operation […]
Sep
The M4A3E2 Sherman Jumbo called Cobra King was the first tank of the 37th Regiment of the 4th Armoured Division, Patton’s Third Army, to break the siege of Bastogne, on 26 December 1944. By way of propaganda, they labelled it on the left side of the glacis with the legend First in Bastogne in order […]
Sep
The 3-inch Gun Motor Carriage M10 Tank Destroyer, known simply as the M10, was the American response to the tank fight against the Panzer divisions during World War II. Designed in 1942 on the basis of the U.S. doctrine for tank destroyers, it was the most popular weapon of this type among Allied armies in […]
Sep
Stalin’s sledgehammer The 203mm M-1931 tracked howitzer, better known as the B-4, was part of the Red Army’s heavy artillery under the direct command of the Stavka Strategic Reserve, the Soviet general staff. Its fearsome 8-inch shell was capable of destroying virtually everything it hit, from reinforced concrete fortifications to large buildings. Its effects caused […]
Aug
The former railway station of Béjar, in the south of the province of Salamanca, an important urban centre that borders on the north of Cáceres, that has traditionally had an important textile industry. Former Railway Station of Béjar in 3D The model is in HO scale from the Spanish firm Modelos Velasco, which specialises in reproducing […]
