The tank was first used during world war one in the battle of flers and was highly unreliable during its inception but it brought some mobility to the western front and changed the nature of trench warfarethe british army were pioneers in developing the first armoured tank for combat situations this english heritage model is inspired by the tank mk i which had various nicknames including big willie centipede and motherkey featuresdesigned exclusively for english heritagemade from resinmade i