Getting roads to just ruddy lay flat
Attempt 4b
So I decided to re-organise the garage and packed everything up. This project got lost in the boxes and I’ve only now just finished the unpacking, so time to pick things up again.
In my last update, I’d found some textured wallpaper and mounted it on some thin rubber sheets. To paint it up, I’ve primed it and then cut it down to size. No dirt road is straight, so in the below pictures, you can see that I’ve created a ‘meandering’ road.
Just painting the wallpaper would be easy and based upon the last entry for this project, would work quite well. Time to experiment!
For this attempt, I’m going to try to add some definition to create tyre ruts. To do this, I will mix decorator’s caulk and acrylic paint. I plan to smear this onto the road.
To create the ruts, I have ‘crafted’ a scraper out of plasticard. By carefully cutting the indents, I hope to drag this down the road and the indents will leave behind the caulk mix to create ruts.
You can see the approach in the below pictures.
It’s messy. Really messy and unfortunately, I wasn’t able to take any pictures showing the effect the scrapper had on the caulk. At least not without getting caulk all over my phone.
Once the caulk dried, I was left with the following:
Conclusion on this attempt:
It’s flexible, so it works. But it’s messy. Perhaps with more time and more patience, I might have been able to get a better result.
Next, I think I’ll try to create a cobbled road.
Great journey on the road to roads… XD