Material for Roads

[cheech]

I am planning a road to run alongside the track to take logging trucks etc up to a mountain area.  What materials would be best for this.  There will be curves, not so gentle i'm thinking and it will be long with a steep grade, steeper than the track at 4%.

any help appreciated

 

ralph

[pbjwilson]

Sounds like a gravel road would be appropriate. Grey paint sprinkles with ballast would work. Sandpaper cut to fit the space and glued down might be good. My favorite is construction paper cut to size, wrinkled a bit, rubbed with some colored chalks, and glued in place. Another one is the spray cans of fleck paint. Mask off the area and spray it on.

[Frank53]

For city streets, I've been using 1/8" masonite, coated with drywall joint compound, then painted in concrete color and dirtied up by placing pastel chalk on teh wheels of a vehicle and rolling it around on the street:

For dirt roads, I've been using Brennan's Ground cover products:

[cnw1995]

I use roof shingles - already colored, proper texture, easy to cut, etc.

[Anonymous]

Doug - great idea on the shingles. 

Paul - I have used sandpaper sprinkled with "snow" for a winter layout.

Frank53 - Great pictures!  Did you scratch build your houses?

 Lisa

[Frank53]

Frank53 - Great pictures!  Did you scratch build your houses?

 Lisa

thank you - yes all of the structures on that corner are scratchbuilt. There are many step-by-step photos of building a number of these structures in the links in my sig line.

This link shows some of the early work on that corner:

Construction on Brace Avenue