{"id":17321,"date":"2026-02-13T11:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=17321"},"modified":"2026-02-13T11:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:10:19","slug":"more-coastal-forts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2026\/02\/more-coastal-forts\/","title":{"rendered":"More Coastal Forts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today sees three additions to the 1\/700th Coastal Scenery<\/a> range of forts and castles.<\/p>\n

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Matara Star Fort was built by the Dutch in Matara, Sri Lanka, and completed in 1765. It was designed to defend the main fort in the city from attacks from the river, as happened during the Matara Rebellion. In 1796 it was handed over to the British as the Dutch surrendered Sri Lanka. The fort is a six-pointed star, with 12 cannons that could cover all directions.<\/p>\n

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Fort Saint Tropez nowadays overlooks the tourist town, but in the 1600s it defended the area from pirates and Saracens. <\/p>\n

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And finally, Fortin de San Juan de la Cruz is one of a cluster of forts that defend the harbour of San Juan in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n

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B700-174<\/a> – Matara Star Fort – \u00a34.50
\nB700-220<\/a> – Fort St Tropez – \u00a33.50
\nB700-221<\/a> – Fortin de San Juan de la Cruz – \u00a32.25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today sees three additions to the 1\/700th Coastal Scenery range of forts and castles. Matara Star Fort was built by the Dutch in Matara, Sri Lanka, and completed in 1765. It was designed to defend the main fort in the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"More coastal forts in out 1\/700th range today - Matara Star Fort (Sri Lanka), Fort St Tropez (France) and Fortin de San Juan de la Cruz (Puerto Rico).","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":564,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/FortsFeb26.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-4vn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12406,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/09\/fort-week-matara-monday\/","url_meta":{"origin":17321,"position":0},"title":"Fort Week – Matara Monday","author":"Tony","date":"September 13, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Phil's been busy lately, designing a large number of new buildings and fortifications for the Small Scale Scenery range. 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