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Title: Jazz up your pill boxes
Post by: anevilgiraffe on 30 September 2025, 09:46:22 PM

https://youtu.be/mCceufLwJxU?si=vHrkz8oGXidE-OiG

Title: Re: Jazz up your pill boxes
Post by: Sakuragi Miniatures on 01 October 2025, 03:33:11 AM

Thanks for sharing that, I've not thought of doing one of those fake ruins before. If I ever get back to working on my Home Guard I'll have to do this.

Title: Re: Jazz up your pill boxes
Post by: Tom Dulski on 01 October 2025, 11:40:06 AM

 That was pretty cool. It would be a relatively simple job to make one out of foam.

Title: Re: Jazz up your pill boxes
Post by: Daeothar on 01 October 2025, 12:13:20 PM

Cool  8)

We've had them over here in the Netherlands as well; pillboxes disguised as haystacks, barns or farms.

And then the Germans built several bunkers disguised as farm houses as well!

 . (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxIqOEq1ums)!

Title: Re: Jazz up your pill boxes
Post by: Rick on 01 October 2025, 03:12:00 PM

Another famous UK one is the Beaulieu Dairy House and I'm sure I heard of urban ones disguised as news stands and small shops and of at least one other rural one disguised as a garage.
Yes - there was a book about wartime preparations in Acton that mentioned a 'coal merchant' pillbox on Brunel rd. and others disguised as news or ice cream kiosks. It also mentions one that had the roof of a Police call box on the roof - presumably to make it look like protection for the box rather than an emplacement.