What recent issues of MR had stories about how to model dirt roads?
Bump Someone should know.
In the mean time check out Mel's dirt roads
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
The archives search for "dirt road" brings up 103 results, in MR issues from 1965 to 2020.
Maybe Google Modeling a dirt road, as I just did, and see all of the videos and articles that show up.
Mike.
My You Tube
Yes, I would suggest reading about it or watching online. I did that. I then get some sand that I used on wet brown paint. It seems with dirt road that they don't need to be arrow straight.
I posted this about 36 hours ago in a thread further down... similar question
You could also check http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/scenery/clods/ which shows old dirt roads.
On an On30 layout I did here in Australia for an exhibiton layout with a club, I copied a friends idea of squashing and sieving a yellowish clay cat litter ... Looked very effective in my view but I would say that.
The layout is show on these pages
http://yourmodelrailway.net/view_topic.php?id=12657&forum_id=65
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Trevor
If you want to go the video route, Paul scoles did a video on that. Also see YouTube Luke Towan who has a couple different dirt roads on moduals. Marklinofsweden did one using tile grout. Nice effect. Kathy millet I do believe did one to one one of her modals. Shane
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