When doing some "research" on the Hurricane I'm now finishing I found this photo in wikimedia. Does anybody have specifics on these pens? They look like something I could build to park that hurricane...I found the Flightpath bits, but this one is a rectangle.

H.

What you're looking at is called an aircraft revetment. Google that term and you'll find lots of images and info.

Best wishes,

Gary

I've tried a few...but this seems to be the magic word.

Thanks!

H.

I don't know if you've seen this plan. It might be useful, particularly for the dimensions.



Cheers

Steve

Brilliant!

may I ask where to find these?

Thanks,

H.

That is an interesting insect on the snout of that Hurricane.

Harald

Sorry for the late reply to this topic.

The plan in Steven's post comes from a book called British Military Architecture, From Airships to the Jet Age by Paul Francis. The book is out of print, but sometimes comes up for sale online.

Unfortunately the book does not include drawings of the other types of dispersal pens. I suspect copies of original Air Ministry plans may be held by the RAF Museum at Hendon.

The accompanying text mainly deals with the later types with splayed pens as illustrated by Steven.

There is a thread on the same topic at another modelling site here:

http://www.scale-models.co.uk/threads/e-shape-bob-dispersal-pen.19557/

The link in Steve's post on that thread does not seem to be working, but try this one:

http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/greylit/details.cfm?id=18051

This will take you to the download page for the report, which is one I prepared…

Regards

Andrew

Andrew,

thanks, very helpful and a good read as well. Those foto's together with the measurements should do just fine...

Now I need to find a way to do brick walls, concrete and grass in 1/48;-)

Thanks again,

Harald

You can buy embossed plastic sheets of brickwork as used by the railway modelling community. I believe O scale is 1/40-something and usable at 1/48 scale.
There are lots of ways of making concrete. I use a grey resin tile grout as a basis for large scale bases! You can wash and stain it to suit.
Cheers
Steve