Ideas on plaining a town.

[IVRW]

I would say don't make things too cramped. It looks unrealistic and calls for more buildings. Make substantial gaps inbetween buildings.

[cudaken]

 For years my town of Kingsdown has sat on green outdoor carpet. Yesterday Jeremy came by and kept telling me how great my layout looked. Well the K-10 mining section does look good, not great but good. He all so he liked the town of Kingsdown?

 Now I do have some well made DMP, cornerstone and Kirby kits and they are sitting on outdoor carpet and the only road was HO slot car track!

 So today, I pulled all the buildings, tress, lights and cut out the carpet. Filled the gaps between the plywood sections with paper then drywall compound. Here is picture of what I have, this is from when I was building the layout with the carpet in places. God, that been 5 years ago.

 

 Spaces is about 4 foot by 7 foot and I have around 25 buildings. There will be a team track running toward the camera with to two different companies.

 Any tips of plaining a town? Pictures would help as well! In my mind town has around 20,000 residents.

 Any tips on making very affordable roads, I think I still have some plaster. Drywall compound has way to many lumps in it.

 Thanks for the coming pictures and tips.

                     Ken