Taking care of the tarmac...
Having completed the cliffs and having an evening to spare I decided to tackle a fairly long section of road. Having learnt from my earlier mistakes with the overbridge and Linkspan I didn't try to put the ironworks in first. They can be a finishing touch instead which stops them getting bashed about. It also saves a lot of fiddly cutting about the das clay. I used the air dried clay again as overall I was pleased with the result last time and I still have a large block to use up! Sticking two strips of balsa down to my kitchen work surface gave the correct depth and width to roll out my clay between. A Liberal application of PVA to help bond it to the ply and then I carefully peeled the clay off the work surface and laid it gently down trying to avoid too many finger marks. Once on I used my wooden das clay shaping tools to gently smooth the clay into the corners, adding a bit more here and there to make up levels.
(first section complete)
Considering I had rolled it out as a straight piece it coped with going around the tight corner surprisingly well with a bit of persuasion with my modelling tools.
Second section was the ramp
(ramp paved)
After that was a wide section of tarmac to join the first two sections together
(top piece smoothed into place)
And then to finish this section a large piece that will go under the bridge
(the last piece butting up against the railway)
Much checking of clay heights, point operation and flanges ensued to try and ensure I wasn't storing up trouble for myself later on.
Just need to let this all dry out so it can shrink a bit before coming back with filler then painting, white lining and adding the self-adhesive decals and ironworks.
(first main section of road complete)
Thanks for reading
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