"West Germany in the 1980's?" Topic

Not much different from today, or for that matter, any different than other western european countries.

I'm using these guys for 80s era specific buildings.

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usually plenty of model railway buildings on ebay,

Tally Ho!

Yeah, goes without saying find a local reseller. I'm in Australia, you should see the reaction I had to p&p costs to down under!

Germany did not demolish everything and start again in 1970. So you see some old half timbered style houses through to modern ugly buildings. If you have Northern European buildings in 15mm for after 1600 feel free to use them.

If you want to do city fighting then big tower blocks

Often is not the buildings that change but the clutter. So need some 80s model cars cars in street. A tractor in farm yard rather than a cart. Street signs and advertising poster things like that help to give correct feel.

If you can get them, things like elecrity pylons, telephone poles, are often slightly different so they also help.

Garden clutter, bins, pylons and a supermarket all help:
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Here is a site that has a lot of pictures of German cities and local. Plus lots of good tourist stops.

Jim

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Paperterrain.com has a European buildings set which you can use as reference, or even buy it.
Timecast does, too.

There's also a whole German Village of paper buildings for free at:
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Just print them out at a scale that suits.

Likewise for some free paper buildings of Holland and nearby areas available from the free section of GHQ at:
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