I need to add the chains and paint the base.
Thanks for the comments.
You may have noticed a sub-theme amidst the First World War, or maybe not.
I have been reading about the early attempts to develop the tank and decided to try to model some of the experimental vehicles that led up to the creation of the tank.
The Tritton Trench Crossser was a dead end, the RNAS and the Landships Committee investigated a few alternatives.
All the parts were there for a tank but it just needed putting together into one viable vehicle.
Armour plate had been developed for armoured cars, tracked vehicles were being developed, but mainly for agricultural purposes.
The stalemate of trench warfare meant that some kind of armoured trench crossing machine was needed. The machine gun was proving extremely effective and so the armour was required to get men into action. Armoured cars were ineffective in the muddy conditions.
Most earlier designs involved large machine that would carry guns and many men, the term "Landships" must apply to these, the Navy had armour plate but it was far too thick and heavy.
So the tracked vehicles were imported from the USA and evaluated and tested. It is these vehicles that I have been building.
Why the Holt artillery tractor did not play a more significant role I do not know?
So The Killen-Strait tractor and The Tritton Trench Crosser were but two of many machines tested.
The Bullock - Creeping Grip tractor will be next to be modelled I think. Two different versions of this were tested, well three really as two were linked together at one stage.
It was the Bullock tracks that were first ordered and used for The Lincoln No1 Machine, later to become Little Willie. The tracks were similar to those on the Holt.
In Britain although agriculture was well developed, tracked machines did not seem to sell very well, maybe this is why US machines were tested?