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Road Striping
Posted by HAZMAT9 on Monday, May 3, 2010 10:44 AM

I've got loads of yellow and white paint and lots of roads to stripe.  Does anyone know of an ho scale stencil that has road markings (i.e. hatched line...etc)?  I know I can use pinstriping but rather use up all this paint.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks!

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Posted by UP 4-12-2 on Monday, May 3, 2010 12:26 PM

I do not know of a stencil,

AND

pavement markings today are different from those of the 1950's, so getting the markings "correct" for one's time period could be a challenge.

Based upon the current Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (federal publication referenced or copied with minor changes by all states), I respectfully offer the following suggestions:

Striped passing zones, and white skip lines on multiple lane highways are 10 feet in length, with a 30' space to the next 10' line.

Double yellow lines are 4" in width and spaced 10" apart (measured center to center).

Stop bars and painted hatching on pavement are 24" in width.  Painted hatching, where used, always points ahead in the direction the motorist is supposed to go at 45-degrees.  The spacing between 45-degree hatch lines is usually either 8' or 16' center to center.

At intersections and on freeways, the white lane separation lines are more typically 6" in width.

When an edge line is placed next to a concrete island, it is normally 1' away from the island.

Left turn arrows are about 12' in length.

Opposing left turn arrows within a center left turn only lane are about 32' apart (left side tip to left side tip).

Curved Hash lines, or dotted guide lines, between multiple turning lanes at intersections may be a 2' line with a 6' skip (no paint) (this is as the vehicle makes the 90-degree turn).

John

 

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Posted by HAZMAT9 on Monday, May 3, 2010 3:14 PM

Thanks for the info John, I have been researching my time period mid 1960's to early 1970's for DOT regs for California and Arizona.  I didn't know if there were any stencils that I can just paint over to do my hatches...etc.

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Posted by cowman on Monday, May 3, 2010 4:17 PM

The simplist way to do road striping that I have seen is to paint a wide stripe down the middle of your road (or appropriate lanes) the color you want your stripes.  Put a piece of striping tape over where you want the color to remain and then color your road, pull the tape off and you have your colored stripes.  Striping tape can be used or you can cut painters tape into narrow strips with the tape on a piece of glass, a metal straight edge and a sharp hobby knife, pull it up off the glass and apply to road. 

Just the way some folks have said they did it.

Good luck,

 

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Posted by Archer1 on Monday, May 3, 2010 4:43 PM

 Haz -

I've done it the same way that Cowman describes, and it works pretty well. But I'm the lazy type. For my last layout, I just bought a few rolls of Pactra Trim tape (the one in the canister with a number of widths) in white and yellow and just used that. A coat of flat clear acrylic takes care of the gloss and it has a raised look that seems to work. Sorry, not into it being period or prototypically correct, it just has to "look" good.

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Posted by GARYIG on Monday, May 3, 2010 7:52 PM

I used paint markers form Sharpie and made the white line 1/2 inch seperations.   I searched for the stencils or guides but settled on this approach after walking ouside and looking at the streets nearby.

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Posted by camaro on Monday, May 3, 2010 7:57 PM

Haz,

I used a pin stripe tape and used 2mm as the width in the photo below for both the yellow and white striping.

 

Larry

 

 

 

 

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Posted by GARYIG on Monday, May 3, 2010 8:03 PM

Larry what did you use for the turn arrows?

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Posted by camaro on Monday, May 3, 2010 8:51 PM

GARYIG

Larry what did you use for the turn arrows?

 

Gary,

 This is a prototypical intersection (54th Street and 35th Avenue) in Hialeah, FL.  The photo was a Bing "Birds Eye" close up.  I looked at the aerial photos and then traced the arrow out on white construction paper.  After tracing, I cut the inside portion of the arrow and then placed on the road where I want it. I then taped it in place and airbrushed the center (similar to how they normally do real arrows).  The striping has been weathered even more since this photo was taken.

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Posted by jmbjmb on Monday, May 3, 2010 8:54 PM

Funny how things go -- I was looking into stripe and sign colors just a couple weeks ago.  Should be pretty straight forward to do up a stencil in powerpoint and cut one out.  Then dry brush or airbrush in the lines.  Unless you are doing a newly striped road, dry brushing would probably do a pretty good job of matching the poor condition the lines get into after a couple of years.

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Posted by willy6 on Monday, May 3, 2010 11:49 PM

I found a place that has pin striping in all widths and colors and farily reasonable. It is line-o-tape.com. I think they are in Ohio.

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Posted by HAZMAT9 on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 9:20 AM

Many thanks to everyone for the great input!  I do have some of the Chartmark (I think it's called) striping used for mapping and I may use that for the solid lines while making a stencil to paint on the dashes. 

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Posted by GARYIG on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 6:12 PM

Larry you in Hialeah?, me too lol

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Posted by BATMAN on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 7:58 PM

 And don't forget the spots where people have driven over the fresh paint. It sure ads a touch of realism. I seen it on a couple of layouts at train shows.

 

                                                                          Brent

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Posted by CSXDixieLine on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 8:04 PM

I used Woodland Scenics dry transfer striping for this highway on my N-scale layout:

Complete details can be found on my blog at http://csxdixieline.blogspot.com/2010/03/howto-build-modern-highway.html if you want to see all of the materials I used and steps I followed.

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Posted by camaro on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 8:33 PM

GARYIG

Larry you in Hialeah?, me too lol

 

Actually no.  I'm in Michigan.

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Posted by HAZMAT9 on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 10:11 AM

Jamie:

 I like your blog on how to do the roadways.  I may have to look into WS for doing my striping, it looks pretty easy and realistic.  Great job and great pics!

Steve "SP Lives On " (UP is just hiding their cars) 2007 Tank Car Specialist Graduate

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