Getting roads to just ruddy lay flat
Cobblers
With the dirt roads done, time to take a look at cobbled roads.
I’ve found some rather attractive beige wallpaper with a texture that looks cobble-like. The gaps between the bumps are a little too bog and, for 15mm, the stones are too large but it’s good enough and, as ‘samples’ of wallpaper are free, there’s no cost! Happy Days 🙂
To reinforce a road look and feel, I want to create a gutter. I’ll do this by laying a thin strip of the wallpaper down each side of the main section. Cutting out these strips took a while….
I’m using rubber for the backing to create strength and flexibility. I’ve also cut a strip of the wallpaper to create the road. You can see all of the materials below and how I intend to put them together.
I’m using a spray carpet glue to attach everything to the rubber. It dries fairly quickly but I leave it over night compressed under a heavy object just to make sure it sticks and lays flat.
I’ve also made a couple of road junctions and a ‘town square’.
This gives a good base. Now I need to figure out how to paint this up. I have two options, a basic approach just using washes and dry brush and another using acrylic sealant and a dry brush.
To test the two approaches, I’ve created a couple of small sample pieces, as below. And we can see what Statler and Waldorf, the hobby fairies have to say about it given that they’ve looked in here before.
I never looked so good XD
It’s the only way I can watch otherwise my eyes hurt. 🙂
Just set the stream resolution to something low like 360 and then it’ll look like a pixelated Japanese porno XD
Those Hobby Fairies have a lot to answer for! In this case though, it’s been for the Greater Good. This project flew completely under my radar when you first booted it up mid-last year. Really interesting approach to a problem that I don’t think I ever realised annoys me as much as it does
Cheers @ninjilly, it never used to annoy me either until I made a teddy bear fur mat and started placing smaller hills under it to create a more realistic ‘undulating’ terrain. Then it started to bug me.
Don’t tell the fairies, but I quite enjoy the uhh as it’s a good chance to catch up on a load of projects at the same time.