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.

Buildings

Checking on what suitable buildings I had stashed away for WW2; 

enough for most scenarios I can think of...

A game setup with my fixed layout town board(s)..

To get some more variable town layouts I tried out using some old table mats as town blocks...

the scheme has possibilities and is more flexible than my fixed layout scheme. 

A message Received. From "Somewhere in France"

 Captain Martin Fairweather, controller Zone Delta (North West France) read the message from Group Pappa, 

       Not for the first time he wondered if the two groups in the Nouvion sector would ever co-operate with each other.  

    Nothing had been heard from group Charlie since the truncated message about the heavy gun location. verified by photo recon. He wondered what had become of Agent Clara Rose, was she still alive? now this message from Group P.

    He looked up at the clock, 2200 hours just gone, by now the first wave of bombers would be in the air en route to the identified Gun position. Hopefully it would catch this second gun as well.

     Only events "Somewhere in France " would tell

The Guns of Nouvion, Part 2.

 Robert Odd-Fellowes stood at his desk, in his hand a series of Photos taken by the RAF.

Confirmation of the location of the German heavy guns harassing the coastline in his area of command.

Included in the bundle was a note that a heavy bomber raid was to be launched that evening to deal with the issue.

Not for the first time, he wondered on the fate of the agent responsible for the information.