1 16 SCALE MODEL EUROPEAN VILLAGE

[971wright]

Hi Andy if your going to get an 88mm gun for the bunker take some orders I want one if your going to order the 1/18 scale one and im sure some others will want one.


        regards pete

[wibblywobbly]

I can give you the dimensions of one old French house down to the last mm, tell you what the roof is made of, and how it is constructed......cos its mine ::)

If we are talking wartime, then from the pics that I have seen, a pile of rubble should suffice, some entire towns were flattened, not by the Germans but by the English bombing raids!

Back then though, it was just whitewashed walls, ardoise tiled roofs (diamond shaped tiles), or clay tiles, and mostly single storey with a 'grenier' (grain store) in the loft. Some town houses were 2/3/4 storey. Thatched roofs were for people out in the sticks. All French villages have one bakery, and bars/hotels etc are everywhere.

Streets would have been very narrow in places, barely big enough for a tank. Pavements were not common, with people stepping almost straight into the road/mud track in the small villages.

Google images will produce results.

Rob G

[971wright]

Hi Guys found this when surfing http://www.rc-panzerketten-forum.com/wb ... r=0&page=1

looks good and dosnt seem that hard to build

pete

[grompix]

Nice one Pete! Great find - its just the kind of thing we need.

Chris

[wibblywobbly]

One idea I am going to try is, instead of building seperate houses, get a long sheet of white material and a marker pen. I will see how it looks if I draw the houses on the material, and attach pegs to the back. That way I can move the pegs to create streets, town squares etc in any design I want. Just roll it up and take it away at the end of the day?

Several rolls of houses should be quite easy to create, and as cheap as chips.

Rob G

[grompix]

That sounds like an idea worth pursuing too Rob. So - each house will be erected like a tent (but with the pegs on the inside).
Have I got that right?
Just role them up when you're finished - sheer genius! 

Chris  

[971wright]

Hi Guys also found this  must be one of the easyest to build if you have an old turret (found a few differant ones using panzer3 /panther and tiger turrets)and a burnt out board dont throw them away this is where i found them alsorts of bunkers houses transport boxes .http://www.rc-panzerketten-forum.com/wb ... boardid=76

   regards pete

ps dont see why these couldnt have DBC/dbu fitted

[971wright]

or this made from icecream tub and panzer 3 turret

  pete

[Ex_Pat_Tanker]

I have 3 gutted (or soon to be) T34/85 turrets that I was considering doing that with - my plan was to convert some disused HL transmitters to a command-line type controller (they ain't moving so why waste radio channels?):
Anybody ever try this?
(Tankhobby's IR system is perfect for this application, btw...)

Mart

[971wright]

Hi there is another system from germany its alot cheaper and you can use the heng long system and battle unit so start to collect all those boards you were going to bin they can be used because the board dosnt use the drive part of the board .anyone got a rx18 board that has blowen a fet this is perfect .

  regards pete