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Decided to scratch build Pevensey Chain Home station in 1/144th scale circa July 1940

Used scratch build techniques similar to common N Gauge methods but with card stock, texture papers and foam board scenic bases.

Receiver Building, Standby Set House and Transmitter Building depicted are all "intermediate/final" versions blast and direct hit protected.

Receiver Tower is work in progress. The two wire frame dimension check models will be replaced with card versions similar to the front two. Maintenance access platforms, internal ladders and dipole aerial sets are still to be added from scratch build brass etch frets.

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Brilliant stuff.

It was only a few years back they demolished the last tower at Bawdsey - what a crying shame that was.

Moggy

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Cheers Moggy,

Sad to say that the wooden receiver towers were not built to last so they were always going to be a temporary landscape vision.

The metal transmitter towers needed a champion to provide use and maintenance for them to remain in place into this century.

Placing the model structures into a scale landscape setting gives an insight into what was.

Always wanted to use a photograph of the model as a slightly transparent acrylic pane in a visualisation port for a visitor interpretation aid. That way Bawdsey could add back all the towers surrounding the transmitter block.

The Augmented Reality display of the Dornier at Hendon and Cosford shows what could be done with a smart phone as another type of visualisation port.

Imagine the effect at Newark. Sitting in the café and turning to look out the window over the runway and seeing not only the scene today but also an almost transparent image of the wartime aerodrome with Stirlings on finals and dotted round the dispersals. The echoes of the past.

Quite simple to do with a modern window overlay films.

Regards
Ross

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This is the Pevensey Receiver Block a few years ago for comparison with the final picture in the model post.

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/p/pevensey_chain_home/index10.shtml

Bawdsey Transmitter block for comparison with the first picture in the model post.

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/b/bawdsey_radar/index8.shtml

Regards
Ross