Wow this is great action! I concur w everything that’s been said beforehand. It’s not easy to show casualties during combat, especially being raked by MG fire, well done.
These are excellent ideas for depicting weapons being fired, thanks for the tips.
Dave 
Would like to see it when you do, it’d be a cool effect.
Thanks, Dave. Much appreciated.
Fantastic work on the Whippet and figures.
If you ever get a chance, visit the Bovington Tank Museum, they have a restored Whippet on display. It’s surprising how ill fitting and gappy the plates that make up the crew compartment were. No wonder the burst petrol cans forced them to abandon it!
Thanks, Stephen. I read that The Musical Box was eventually recovered from the Germans but was probably scrapped afterwards. The crews did not want to carry those extra cans but were overruled by higher command.
I can sort of see it from a logistical point of view. Keeps them moving and no hanging around waiting for supply to catch up, when they’re at their most vulnerable. Keeps the momentum of the push going.
But yes, not the best place to put them. Don’t think stowage was much of a consideration on these old tanks.
I agree about the necessity of carrying extra gas, it’s the location that seems a poor choice. But there weren’t a lot of places to carry it either.
These are shown carried in a more exposed location, but it was probably less hazardous in a way. Carrying them like this might’ve been the result of lessons learned the hard way.
Hmmm I doubt anyone survived to learn that particular lesson 
If those cans where holed, the gas would most likely just run off, unless hit with an incendiary round. Even then, not sure it would be fatal to the tank or its crew.
Except it would likely run down into the cab, including onto hot machine-gun barrels and perhaps down onto the engines. There was only one space inside a Whippet, basically L-shaped with the engines in the low part and the crew in the tall part. Also, if fuel runs down the front of the cab, it will end up on the engine deck and may run off that on the sides and hit the exhaust pipes, which got hot enough that they had asbestos rope wrapped around them as protection.
Here’s the inside of A347, the Whippet in Brussels:
Notice that you can see the right-hand engine, between the driver’s control levers. There is no firewall, not because it was removed in this preserved tank but because there also wasn’t any in 1918.
I was referring to the cans stowed forward, atop the armored gas tank, as shown in the photos. As opposed to the ones carried carried atop the fighting compartment, which were the downfall of The Musical Box. Those did leak down into the fightting compartment forcing the crew to abandon her.
Ah, I thought you were talking about the ones on the roof 
I wouldn’t discount the ones on the front being a hazard, though. I can still envision them leaking through the join between the fuel tank armour and the engine compartment front, leaving fuel to run into the engine compartment. Or for the can to split open when hit, spraying fuel everywhere.
That looks fantastic.
Thank you very much, Ralph.
I think you might be thinking of Genesis? I was wondering if there was a reference to the song when I saw the title of the post. 
Beautiful work. thanks for sharing it!
Squeeze Box.
No, Just the name of the tank. The notes are reported to be from “Three Blind Mice”. Rather apt considering the limited visibility available from inside the fighting compartment.
Thanks, glad you liked it.
Great song, and very suggestive.
