Marienburg border crossing
This set of buildings intrigued me and I already have a large Cold war Soviet army in
1/300th, so I had to buy it. After doing some research of the border crossing I realised this model is scaled down a lot but it is
a very good representation, and a model of the whole crossing would be huge! The model consists of 3 main checkpoint buildings covered by a large roof, an Observation bridge, a command tower and a small tower/ spotlight tower. The walls surrounding the crossing are made from plastcard with some plastic cross stitching mesh glued on. I couldn't find any pictures of the walls so I went with this design.
When I got the model I was wondering where the piece for the tower was, but then I realised that all if you glue all the circular pieces together, it will make the tower. However I decided that was too much work so I used a piece of 10mm wooden dowel instead. If you look at the pictures of this. I have assembled it incorrectly as I orginally thought it was anobservation tower but now I realise it is a spotlight tower, and all the notched pieces should be on top (too represent the spotlights).
On the main building I replaced the main roof with a piece of plasticard and added some additional details to it as I thought it
looked rather plain. All the buildings were reinforced with plasticard which I sprayed painted black first. The idea was that I would paint
the walls and then glue them to the plasticard and this would save me lots of time painting the windows. I used a white ballpoint pen to draw
in the window frames and then I touched up any mistakes. This did save a lot of time with the windows but I still had to make a lot of touch ups around the windows.