AndyM and I have spent the evening building ... well, buildings, and other Sarissa stuff. Several pillboxes and an equipment shed (lovely pieces of engineering), a Chain Home Low radar antenna (gorgeous but fiddly, needed a bit of filing to make sure it rotated freely) and a complete set of Chain Home transmit and receive towers (again, a bit taxing but brilliant models)... (The searchlight Andy did earlier in the year,)
There's a plan in place involving these, some beach boards and some Fallschirmjäger, as well as some of Bad Squiddo's ATS figures (guesss where I got the searchlight :D)...
There's a plan in place involving these, some beach boards and some Fallschirmjäger, as well as some of Bad Squiddo's ATS figures (guesss where I got the searchlight :D)...
Hmmmm - for the alleged (and obviously covered up) raid on one of the station on the Isle of Wight?
ReplyDeleteHi Tamsin.
DeleteIs there any documentation for the raid you mentioned or is it another example of an effective MOD coverup to maintain the morale of the Home Front? Or, alternatively, is this just a very nice suggestion for a war game?
Jerry
http://www.pillbox.org.uk/blog/245381/ is a good read on the subject.
DeleteWill you be painting these models? If so, what colors might you be planning to use?
ReplyDeleteThe extant photos of RAF Ventnor and the one standing tower still in existence) at RAF Steingot suggest grey - https://goo.gl/maps/dpG4yvMCBSibK2C57
Delete...although that's the transmitter towers. The receiver towers were apparently made of wood.
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