Warpark - New Bunker (1 Viewer)

[Goldman007]

Is it me of does the new Warpark bunker layout make no sense, thinking of door on back and the opening on the side.
https://warpark.com/product/ws040-concrete-blockhouse/

That new 88mm does make sense, plus those new figures, winter gunner, are excellent

 

[OzDigger]

Some bunkers had more than one entrance in case one was damaged etc. However that was more common in larger bunkers such as those used for artillery. The Warpark example isn't large, yet seems to have an oversized firing opening suitable for an artillery piece rather than just hand weapons and machine guns. Would be easy to toss a grenade through that opening and kill the occupants.

 

[Barkmann]

Some bunkers had more than one entrance in case one was damaged etc. However that was more common in larger bunkers such as those used for artillery. The Warpark example isn't large, yet seems to have an oversized firing opening suitable for an artillery piece rather than just hand weapons and machine guns. Would be easy to toss a grenade through that opening and kill the occupants.

I know what the bunker is, i am really Geeky on WW2 German Bunkers and that one did not have 2 openings/doors. The type they have modelled it on is a rear area observation bunker and they were used at place like Peenemunde and the Tuchola Forest where they tested V1 and V2 rockets. The embrasurement was large for people to be able to see out of them as a group. Read some interesting stuff that the door was normally left open because of any concussion blast would have at least somewhere to go instead of the enclosed space in a bunker. Probably they were far enough away for it to be a strongish pressure and/or in the early days of the V2s when many of them toppled over and then blew up, giving time, if needed for people to run out of the back and hunker down behind the bunker.
Would mainly be only fuel in V2 and not explosives in the test flights, with the explosives being replaced with an inert material to represent weight etc.

There are plenty of small bunkers to choose from, straight pillbox, would be great to see a range of Tank Turret bunkers using the Panzer II, III or IV turret or event the Panther Turret. Plus the steel transportable bunkers the Germans created mid too late in the war would be excellent. Plenty of plastic kit manufacturers have done them so enough material to get the info from, favourite would be a steel turret, like the one below, which is at WN17 Hillman up from Sword Beach Normandy.