Etiennedup Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 Came across this today........... with this caption. 'View of soldiers from the Royal Engineers placing scale models of buildings on to an outline map for lessons in camouflage at a British Army camouflage school in the United Kingdom in October 1943." Etienne 9 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorby Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 War is hell isn't it. Interesting to see a vintage image of Britmodellers first group build. Which one is Mike? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil.C Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 I guess scale modelling was very important during the war. I saw a documentary about the Amiens prison raid by Mosquitos and they had a full scale model to work from during briefings. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Newsome Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 Wow, this is a bit of a coincidence! Only yesterday my father in law told me his Dad made model aircraft during the war which were used for recognition training. He told me he can remember sanding and painting them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil.C Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 1 minute ago, Roger Newsome said: Wow, this is a bit of a coincidence! Only yesterday my father in law told me his Dad made model aircraft during the war which were used for recognition training. He told me he can remember sanding and painting them. I saw some of those aircraft recognition models at the warhawk museum recently. They were all painted black as I guess they would look against the sky. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Newsome Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 2 minutes ago, Neil.C said: I saw some of those aircraft recognition models at the warhawk museum recently. They were all painted black as I guess they would look against the sky. I'll ask him if he remembers if they were black. I wonder if there's any photo's online? Off to look. 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben_m Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 The Central Interpretation Unit (combined Allied photo reconnaissance interpretation unit, based at RAF Medmenhan) had a very large model making division, making 3D models for operations from the latest photos. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mancunian airman Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 One that comes to mind on this day, the models of the three main dams for tonights targets . . . . . 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pat d Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 Mr. Grumman in his office with A/C models M 5 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben_m Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 Google just found me this interesting article: Allied Military Model Making during World War II https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c54d/738b04aa453237c4c01864012775ad0af07d.pdf And despite being on Pinterest, this collection is interesting: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/garyscholes/military-model-making-during-ww2/?lp=true 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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