New Caesar Miniatures First World War German Infantry; with an old soldier the Airfix First World War British Mark I tank. The Germans made few tanks in WWI, but the British, French and Americans made thousands of them. Most of the tanks in the German Army were captured British tanks. This model depicts one of those captured vehicles in German service.
Germans would repaint the British tanks and put many large German crosses on them for quick identification. This gives a great modelling opportunity to make a different version of this tank.
For wargamers, this give you a chance to add tank support to your German army.
These old fashioned tanks were very slow and were built to support the infantry at a walking pace. The tanks were long so that they could cross large craters and trenches.
In this photo, the tank is running up the rim of a crater and will soon fall forward and continue it's drive. These tanks would drive up very severe berms and fall back forward, jarring the crews inside. The tanks had very primitive suspension systems which made for a rough ride. They enabled the attacker to bring direct fire on enemy machine gun nests and allowed the infantry to advance without being mowed down. My WWI German Army has a few German tanks and this one British one.
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