Nissen Complexes/Blocks

Hi folks.

Given that the scope of Nissen hut-based accommodation and technical structures built, particularly during WW2, is so vast, is it worth creating a thread, or a sub-forum, or similar, where members can post details of such structures?

I've been hunting for any idea of what a Nissen Sergeants' Mess may have looked like, but searches on this forum have turned up 48-50 pages of posts, none of which have actually helped and most of which have had the words scattered throughout the post without relation to each other... Which is fine, that's how search engines work. I just thought it might be more simple, especially given the Sketchup drawings that the more knowledgeable on the forum have created over time, to put somewhere that such structures might be more easily searched and/or browsed?

As I said before, there's a huge scope of just such structures, especially on USAAF fields, so I don't think a separate place for them would be overkill!

Thoughts? Comments? Instructions to go away?

Cheers,

Ian P.

Hi Peter,

No, in this case I mean the outside. Long story, involving a very weird shaped building with no construction material listed, on the Halfpenny Green RSP. The layout of half of it looks Nissen, but the other half can't be. It's baffling me.

It was actually the Sick Quarters and Institute threads, with the Sketchup renditions of both interiors and exteriors, which made me think we should have somewhere dedicated to Nissens and the maze-like complexes constructed from them, though.

Cheers,

Ian P.