Re: DS: City block WIP

Those stick on roads look interesting. Do you know if they have a rough
texture or are they just printed plastic?

The town street section actually looks close to my homemade creation.

R
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Francis" <tony@brigademodels.co.uk>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: DS: City block WIP

> Robin Fitton wrote:
>
> >Doug,
> >
> >I used exterior wall paint sandtex (fine mix) on the roads. It has
two
> >purposes, firstly it gives you a very fine texture and secondly
plasticard
> >is inert and difficult to glue together, the layer of sandtex helps
bond
the
> >plasticard together when glued.
> >
> >At the moment I am simply dry-brushing up with a lighter grey on the
> >sidewalk. I am also painting darker grey areas onto the larger
18x18cm
> >squares to give the impression of smaller access roads.
> >
> >Should have some pictures of the results next week.
> >
> This stuff makes fantastic roads :
>
> http://www.mgsharp.com/R_Scenes_HO.htm
>
> It would be a little wide for 1/300th / 6mm, but you could buy the
> standard width stuff and trim half-an-inch off each edge. I'm in the
> process of putting together some 15mm scenery for a demo' game at
> Bifrost next month and I'm using it for all of the roads - stuck to
2mm
> MDF it looks really good. You can also buy unmarked lengths and larger
> areas for squares, open areas etc.
>
> Tony
>
>