Battlefield Accessories

Type Diorama accessories

Period Second World War

SKILL 1

Box Dim. 258 x 162 x 38 mm

• 3 tall (82mm) posts, suitable for making such items as the signpost and telegraph pole shown above.
• 2 shorter (52mm) posts, suitable for making such items as the smaller signpost shown above.
• 4 large (22mm) pointed signs, as seen above on the longest post.
• 7 small (15mm) pointed signs, as seen above on the shorter post.
• 3 rectangular signs (20mm by 16mm).
• 2 rectangular signs (20mm by 12mm).
• 6 crosspieces for making telegraph poles as seen above on the longest post.
• 1 double-posted sign
• 2 small (27mm) signposts, with both post and square sign moulded as one piece.
• 44 sandbags
• 4 open boxes
• 4 lids for boxes.
• 8 drums (for oil etc.).
• 10 pyramid-shaped centre-pieces and 15 steel girders for constructing obstacles such as the 'hedgehog' shown above.
• 30 lengths of wood (28mm long) for constructing obstacles such as that shown above, which could be used to hold barbed wire etc.

The set is done in a hard plastic, so it takes glue very well. Since the posts can be used for many things there are no fittings as such - the customer has complete freedom to attach signs and so on anywhere and at any angle. The hedgehog was one of many obstacles used to impede the progress of landing-craft and vehicles on the beaches of Normandy in 1944. The sandbags can clearly be stacked in any fashion to construct strongpoints, and the drums and boxes would be a normal part of the supply 'litter' of any army.