Making an Air Raid Shelter

To use up oddment bits in the box of cardboard and foamboard, I decided to make an air raid shelter ...

Basic core of the structure  made with foamboard on a cardboard base...

adjusted height a bit and tried to cut a sloped edge ....

Brick paper added, and some concrete flooring paper added as well

Supports for the earth covering sloped sides...

sides added ...

wood filler used to smooth over the top....

ground surface added, using an off-cut of green cloth and scatter added as needed ... a couple of close ups...

fits in nicely with the radar installation setup...

Radar Installation ... completed..

The radar finished off,  with a nissan hut and a small building makes up a nice setup..

now I have to work out the details of the game scenario which it'll feature...

Radar Installation (WIP) ... finishing off the construction

     The base has been painted, will add some grass scatter later on. The radar's top half made and married up to the supporting structure, have put a wire pivot in so it can rotate...

close in look at the construction - made from wire, cocktail sticks and cardboard

some extra detail added using some thin waxed twine....

bearing in mind 'less is more', thats the build done. Final coat of paint and fitting to the base to do.

Radar Installation (WIP)

 Currently making up a list of games for WW2, one idea is a German raid on a British radar installation..

Rather than chain home with its very tall towers I wanted something more table friendly, a bit of research yielded information about chain home low... example below

I had a spare plastic watchtower from a toy soldier set, which I thought would make a good starting point 

Initial work for the lower part of the structure, I will base the whole thing on an old coaster for stability.

Warehouses ...

 Mulling over a possible game set in the environs of a harbour I realised I was short of suitable dockside buildings. A couple more warehouses were needed.

I bought a Gaugemaster OO/HO warehouse kit,  I made it up into two warehouses, filling in the missing walls/roofs with cardboard pieces. While I was in building mode I decided to extend a low relief building into one the same width as the warehouses.

The initial build ...

I photocopied the front of the low relief building and made up some image files to print, so that I could have a similar brick sheet and the front elevation to cut up as needed.  The 2nd phase of the build with the roofs added, warehouse fronts painted and the printed paper sheets cut up and stuck on as needed.

Finished off front ...

and back ....

Refurbishing railway scenic pieces ...

 I've been refurbishing my railway scenic pieces; I recovered the track from the old scenic pieces and re-used them on strips of cardboard with surface of ballast effect paper.