View attachment 40044 View attachment 40050 View attachment 40051 One of the structures for the new extension; a WWII concrete accoustic dish which was a forerunner of radar. My model is based on an example found at Denge in Kent. I built this from card, plastic and a mix of plaster and PVA. It took a huge amount of sanding and was a very difficult shape to achieve. Here's a link to the Denge site:-
http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/soundmirrors/locations/denge/
The dish will be surrounded by marshy ground and have reeds growing all around it. The landscape will be flat, featureless and remote.
Kewl, love WWII architecture, I think one of these was in the series Coast and they tested it with a light aircraft, apparently it worked pretty well and could be heard long before it was actually visible.
I'd love to meet the guy who invented these and ask him how on earth he even begun to think of something like this!
You will of course need a Pillbox to protect said 'secret weapon' from jerry paratroopers! .....Don't tell them your name Pike....
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm struggling to comprehend the level of minutia with the track and associated hardware, pure rivet counting of the highest order and really well accomplished.