You will need: A print out of the pillbox template Pencil Paint and paintbrushes, felt tips or colouring pencils Scissors Glue or sellotape A Bren Gun Template used for making a model pillbox. (© NCC) 1. Print out the pillbox template. Draw the door, windows, gunholes and any other features you want to include on the template. 2. Colour in the pillbox template. You could make it plain concrete or brick or a combination of both. You might want to disguise your pillbox as an ordinary building like an ice cream shop or hide it by painting on trees or camouflage paint designs. 3. Cut around the template carefully. You could stick the template onto card to make it more sturdy before you cut it out if you want. 4. Carefully fold along the dotted lines to form the roof, walls and sticking tabs. 5. Using glue or sellotape stick the insides of the pillbox walls together. 6. Your pillbox is now complete. You may want to add grass, leaves or pieces of string to form camouflage netting to disguise it even further! P. Aldridge (NLA) and M. Dennis (NLA), 11 September 2006. Make-a-World-War-Two-pillbox-(Crafty-Idea) - Norfolk Heritage Explorer
CITiZAN - Blogs - Defending our Isle: The military defenses at Bridlington Ah so that's how it was done. I'd assumed they'd used more concrete ;-) Edit: Incidentally this "do or die" ref. particularly caught my eye - "The entrances to the pillbox are interesting as they face the front not the back, and is unusual because if the beach was under attack, the solider within the pillbox needed to retreat, but to leave the pillbox they would be required to come out into enemy fire rather than away. This may suggest that these pillboxes were “Do or Die” positions. On one of the pillboxes is inscribed the phrase “Earwig Villa”, which was done whilst the concrete of the pillbox was still wet."
