Mockup of Škoda Works, Scale model in Vejprnice, Czech Republic

The Mockup of Škoda Works, called the "wooden lover", was a dummy factory built by the Germans between Vejprnice, Vochov and Křimice. Covering 100 hectares, the wooden model was covered with burlap and included the typical Škoda chimneys and imitations of the railway lines to Cheb and Domažlice.

Built in 1941, not 1943 as often stated, the decoy was reported to London in April 1942 by Czechoslovak paratroopers of Operation Canonbury via the Libuše transmitter; they also considered setting it on fire. A postwar document, Strategic Air Victory in Europe, records that it once misled the USAAF Fifteenth Air Force. It was never hit and survived the war, then served as material for repairing the bomb-damaged Škoda Works.

The mockup is nicknamed "the wooden lover" (dřevěná milenka). It also appears in the Plzeň Nativity scene, a three-metre panorama painted from 1943 by sculptor Jan Vasilej Čermák, which shows the wooden factory model in the background.

The decoy stood on open ground between Vejprnice, Vochov and Křimice, northwest of Plzeň; nothing of it survives above ground, so the site is read from the fields and roads rather than from a structure. Photographs of the mock-up being dismantled in June 1945 are held on Wikimedia Commons.

The decoy was never hit during the war and survived intact to 1945. It was then dismantled and its wood used as material to repair the Škoda Works, which had been badly damaged in the final air raid.