Small Pillbox & Dragon's Teeth - 1/72

[Zakopious]

I needed small pillboxes for a wargame and tried building Papertiger Armaments Bldg. H, the Point Bunker.
The Point Bunker is an impressive gun emplacement suitable for the Atlantic Wall but too big to be used for a simple machine gun emplacement.
I needed a simple pillbox but could not find anything suitable on the internet.
Fortunately, I have Open Office Draw which could be called the poor man's CAD program.
There is even a tutorial for using Open Office Draw as a CAD program.
I designed a small pillbox and was able to fit two of them on a sheet of cardstock leaving about a third of the sheet as empty space.
The empty space was filled in with 14 dragon's teeth.
Open Office Draw produces vector images which can be re-sized but can only use solid colors.
If I ever learn how to use Gimp, I would like to add a concrete texture to the pillboxes and the dragon's teeth.
The toy soldiers are ESCI 1/72 scale British Commandos, about 1 inch (25mm) tall.

[once]

Neat. And there's plenty of scope to enhance the range, us Brits have a lot of left over pillboxes and things, we thought we might need them.
British hardened field defences of World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pill box defences in the UK from World War 2
(with a paper model at Make Your Own Pillbox )
PILLBOXES, PILLBOX, ANTI-INVASION DEFENCES, WWII, PILLBOX STUDY GROUP,INVASION HISTORY, BUNKERS, MILITARY HISTORY.

[valmy33]

Hello Zakopious,

I think you can find your hapiness on junior general website.
It's a 1/72 papermodel figure and... it's free.

Faiththfully
VALMY

[Zakopious]

Thank you friends.
If I had known about the pillboxes on Junior General or pillboxesuk.co.uk., I might not have bothered to make my own.
At any rate, now we have a variety of pillboxes to use in our battles.
See additional information at:
Kirkbride - pill-box

[valmy33]

Originally Posted by Zakopious

Thank you friends.
If I had known about the pillboxes on Junior General or pillboxesuk.co.uk., I might not have bothered to make my own.
At any rate, now we have a variety of pillboxes to use in our battles.
See additional information at:
Kirkbride - pill-box

Yes, but the interest is that's yours models and it's many more important.

Faithfully
Valmy

[Zakopious]

Here is another hand-drawn red brick pillbox:
BUILD YOUR OWN PILLBOX, PILLBOX STUDY GROUP

[nebeltex]

Here is building "Z", Volume I, a classic Tobruk box.