Curious Five #2 / Setting the scene /

2 cm Flakvierling C/38

Curious Five #1 / Tk - 3 Tankette /

Tk-3 tankette was third Polish construction based upon British MK VI light tank, approved by Polish Army in 1931. In next couple years approximately 300 vehicles of this type were built. Later, some had been modified and improved. The tankette was used during Blitzkreig campaign in September 1939 by Polish Army. September 1939 is a theme of this diorama, depicting Panzer IV crew curiously examining intact Tk-3 tank captured during fights. 

TKS Light Reconnaissance Tank

TKS tank, also known as tankette, was major tracked vehicle of Polish Army in September 1939.  In 1931, Military Institute of Research and Engineering (Wojskowy instytut Badan i Inzynierii) team lead by T. Trzeciak designed a vehicle based upon British MK VI tank. Throughout few years improvements were implemented,  new engine, frontal shape was changed, new gun mantlet installed and new optical sights, Gundlach's Visor, allowing all round observation of battlefield from the inside. In August 1939 Tank Battalions equipped with TKS tanks were mobilized into Independent Companies and Squadrons, 13 tanks each, 1 commander tank with 2 platoons, 6 each. These units were attached to Brigades of Cavalry and Infantry Divisions, TKS tanks were also used in armored train units.

Midland Expo 2016

Field Medic, Warsaw '44

Little Sabotage - The Anchor

Verdeja Spanish Prototype Tank

Moorlands Model Show 2016

British Museum #1 / Sutton Hoo Burial /

The Sutton Hoo burial was discovered in 1939 after exploration of largest burial mound at Edith Pretty's estate at Suffolk. Inside the mound, the imprint of a 27-metre-long, decayed ship, studded with iron rivets containing burial chamber was found. The burial took place in early AD 600s, when Sutton Hoo belonged to East Anglia, one of competing Anglo - Saxon kingdoms. Sutton Hoo is the most significant find from early medieval Europe, also the richest, containing many artifacts of exquisite craftsmanship,  probably commemorating a person of extreme wealth or high status, possibly an Anglo-Saxon King of East Anglia.