{"id":2771,"date":"2014-07-31T20:28:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T19:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2014-07-31T20:43:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T19:43:28","slug":"brigade-models-sound-mirrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/brigade-models-sound-mirrors\/","title":{"rendered":"1\/1200 scale model sound mirrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bwwmrc.co.uk\/layouts\/Horton\/index.shtml\">model trains<\/a> are more my scene, last year I wandered along to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selwg.org\/category\/show\/\">South East London Wargames Group show<\/a>, where I acquired some <a href=\"\/soundmirrors\/model-sound-mirror-for-aerial-wargaming\/\">Brigade Models 1\/1200 scale sound mirrors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The models are cast in lead-free white-metal. Here they are painted up, one with a <a href=\"\/soundmirrors\/locations\/denge\/\">vaguely Denge-like<\/a> base, one with &#8220;grass&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/mirror\/mirror-model-small-sand.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/mirror\/mirror-model-small-sand.jpg\" alt=\"Model of a sound mirror\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/mirror\/mirror-model-small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/mirror\/mirror-model-small.jpg\" alt=\"Model of a sound mirror\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by <a href=\"\/soundmirrors\/locations\/il-widna-malta\/\">Il Widna on Malta<\/a>, I added representation of a concrete base and control room to the 200 ft mirror, and painted it in camouflage colours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/mirror\/mirror-model-200ft-front.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/mirror\/mirror-model-200ft-front.jpg\" alt=\"Model of 200 foot sound mirror\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/mirror\/mirror-model-200ft-back.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/mirror\/mirror-model-200ft-back.jpg\" alt=\"<odel of 200 foot sound mirror\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/SmallScaleScenery\/index.html\">order the models from Brigade Models<\/a>: they are sets SSS-8001 Acoustic Mirror and SSS-8002 Listening Ears (pack of 2) in the &#8220;Small Scale Scenery&#8221; range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although model trains are more my scene, last year I wandered along to the South East London Wargames Group show, where I acquired some Brigade Models 1\/1200 scale sound mirrors. The models are cast in lead-free white-metal. Here they are painted up, one with a vaguely Denge-like base, one with &#8220;grass&#8221;. Inspired by Il Widna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-2771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sound-mirrors","tag-model"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2782,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions\/2782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}