The Master Scenery Builder, Luke Towanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD-Fba0NJYQ&list=PLNjcB9F-Rr5cIJl5By8gH93VdMLynUx6v Mel My Model Railroad http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/ Bakersfield, California I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.
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
A pessimist sees a dark tunnel
An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel
A realist sees a frieght train
An engineer sees three idiots standing on the tracks stairing blankly in space
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
Cheers from Australia, Merry Xmas and Stay Safe
Trevor
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.
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
Bump Someone should know.
In the mean time check out Mel's dirt roads
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
What recent issues of MR had stories about how to model dirt roads?