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<p> Just painting the streets directly on the board will not give you the look you are aiming to achieve. Although, IMHO, the Walther´s stuff is pretty good, when laid out with care, there are alternatives to it. The most important questions you need to answer is, what type of covering you intend to model, concrete, asphalt, brick, cobblestones?</p><p>As for asphalt and concrete, you can use thin foam board, cut to shape, with the curbs made of a little thicker material. Any structure or texture you´d like to have, can be engraved - a tedious task, but the result is fantastic. For parking lots, which have a gravel surface, I just use fine sand (bird cage sand), coloured lightly with acrykic washes.</p><p>BTW, that curb height you mention is correct, but hardly visible... <br></p>
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