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Making roads


TurboSnail

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One of the major parts missing from the layout was roads. Lots of people have their own preferred methods, including using fine grit sandpaper, textured paints, Bachmann RoadStuffTM (I've no idea what it's actually called) but all of those methods involve either expense, time waiting for internet orders or going outside, so I had to come up with something else. Following a rummage in the garage, I found the ingredients for the rather noxious brew in the photo below: some dulux white matt primer, most of an old brown tester pot (possibly from the 80s?), some completely solidified GreenScene textured road paint (the dark tarmac, I think) and mixed it all together. At this point, it was still way too white and I couldn't locate any black paint - although come to think of it, I shouldn't be surprised as who paints their house black? Slightly desperate, I came across some car bumper restorer blackening wax, from back when I had a mk1 Ford KA with the grey plastic bumpers, and chucked it in. Amazingly, it mixed in ok, as you can see below.

 

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There was just enough Greenscene paint to add a bit of texture to the road without going over the top and having a gravel track. Probably due to the unconventional mixture of chemicals, there were a few cracks in the paint after drying, but a second coat sorted this out nicely. It's not the best looking road I've ever seen, but since it was free I'm not complaining, and the next job is to tone it down and mess it up with some washes to get some more variation in the colour.

 

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Very inventive thinking! And presumably very economical too!

 

Thanks, it was completely free! If I can use/recycle stuff into my layout I find it more satisfying - hence papier mache hills and cardboard box buildings also in the images. 

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