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Offline carlos marighela

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Re: 1940s Control Tower
« Reply #15 on: November 09, 2016, 06:51:30 AM »
You probably want a substantial table if you are planning on a Chain Home radar site complete with towers. The actual items were bloody massive. You best bet, if you want a scaled down version and don't fancy faffing about with plastic rod, is to buy a model electrical transmission tower,or rather towers as Chain Home was set up with multiple towers.  There are a few on the market.

http://fenrisgames.com/shop#!/FGFL02-Electricity-pylon-transmission-tower/p/43841310/category=8583849

http://severnmodels.com/N14-Electricity-Pylon


Of course they weren't typically located anywhere near an RAF airfield.

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/v/ventnor/

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Offline matiec

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Re: 1940s Control Tower
« Reply #16 on: November 09, 2016, 07:33:16 AM »
Thanks really useful. My thoughts for a scenario were to have just the edge of the station as an objective for the Germans to blow up. So I could get away with only one of two towers.

Offline manchesterreg

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Re: 1940s Control Tower
« Reply #17 on: November 09, 2016, 04:20:13 PM »
Thanks Rob, great idea, having looked at their website for ages, i must have seen it, and never thought of it !

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Re: 1940s Control Tower
« Reply #18 on: November 09, 2016, 05:51:59 PM »

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Re: 1940s Control Tower
« Reply #19 on: November 09, 2016, 10:16:37 PM »
There's a pic at the link below of the Plasticville tower - very slightly modified.

Roderick

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=94020.msg1160591#msg1160591

Offline carlos marighela

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Re: 1940s Control Tower
« Reply #20 on: November 10, 2016, 01:41:02 AM »
Before you throw yourself into purchasing bits of kit which may or may not look anything like an RAF control tower, you might want to take a look at this site. It's probably about as encyclopaedic  as you will get.

http://www.controltowers.co.uk/Tower%20Designs.htm

Plenty of inspiration. You'll notice that there were fairly standard designs but with occasional local variation. Some are quite simple designs, which would be easy either to make yourself or to buy a proxy, off the shelf. None of them look very much like their modern counterparts. Of course that may not matter.

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Re: 1940s Control Tower
« Reply #21 on: November 10, 2016, 01:42:01 AM »
Before you throw yourself into purchasing bits of kit which may or may not look anything like an RAF control tower, you might want to take a look at this site. It's probably about as encyclopaedic  as you will get.

http://www.controltowers.co.uk/Tower%20Designs.htm

Plenty of inspiration. You'll notice that they were fairly  standard Air Ministry designs but with occasional local variation. Some are quite simple designs, which would be easy either to make yourself or to buy a proxy, off the shelf. None of them look very much like their modern counterparts. Of course that may not matter.

 

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