The Little World

If you have ever spent time in a Nissen or Quonset hut it is subtracted from your stay in Purgatory…

These Corrugated Containers Of Discomfort seem to have been erected everywhere in peace and war. Australia housed service personnel, prisoners, and migrants in them, and still has some left in bush towns. They are still up in Malta, in the UK, and presumably anywhere that has a hot, dry climate.

My little airfields have many of them, as they are produced by Italeri, Model Railway Scenery.com. and now Rix Structures. The first mentioned are the best, the card download the cheapest, and the Rix the most complex to assemble. There is no internal framework, but the curved sheets are individually slotted together.

It is finicky, but will be successful in the end. The lot needs to be carefully bedded on a baseplate to become a moveable building.

You can still get a similar 1:1 building as a shed or house in the USA, and possibly here in Australia, but I’ll bet you would have a hell of a time selling the idea to your local council. Even Nimbin would be NIMBY.