1:35 Betonové zátarasy - dlouhé

Concrete instead of a barrier

A wooden barrier stops only those who want to stop. As soon as a closure becomes a permanent measure, concrete replaces it, because concrete cannot be pushed aside with a bumper or shot through. Precast blocks were cast in simple molds, hauled to the place and stacked by a crane or a loader, so one squad closed a road in the course of a morning. A longer piece has an advantage over a short one in that it closes a greater part of the lane with a single part, and therefore with fewer joints through which something could slip.

The set

The package carries four cast resin parts. What is interesting is the way they are set out: in practice blocks are never laid in a perfect row, because they are delivered gradually and are aligned according to where the arm of the machine reaches.

Surface and traces of use

Concrete ages fast. A freshly stripped surface is light gray with the imprint of the mold, after a year it darkens from exhaust fumes, the covering layer flakes off the edges and a rusty trickle appears from the reinforcement. The bottom is licked by mud and sprayed numbers or stripes fade.

The castings are built to the 1:35 ratio and can be put together with other vehicles of the same size.

The arrangement has its own logic

Nobody closes a roadway with a perfectly perpendicular row. A block is laid at an angle so that a vehicle has to pull the wheel over, the last piece stays pushed aside for permitted passage and the side toward the post is completed with bags or drums. Anyone who gets this asymmetry into a scene saves half the explaining.