asphalt roads

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I know I made this thread in layouts and layout building, but I wanted to see i’d get more replys here.

Materials: sheet of styrene (not too thick), sand (not to fine), black of grey acrylic paint (either a spray or for airbrush), wet water, dullcote, and WS scenic glue.

Step 1: Spread sand evenly over styrene so it’s a tiny bit less than an eighth of an inch

Step 2: mist wet water till the sand is soaked with it, but becareful not to make craters. Next sray with WS scenic glue. Let it dry overnight.

Step 3:Spray on black or grey acrylic paint. Spray it on evenly, but make sure the can or airbrush isn’t spray droplets too big. Make sure the paint soaks into it, but dont spray so much it’s dripping. The sand will get wet again just like when you sprayed on the wet water. Let it completely dry. I’d say two days.

Step four: spray a little bit of dullcote on. Not enough to make it wet, just to get on the surface and dry. Let dry.

I finally have a photo of it! Although I broke it cause I didn’t really have for it. But
hopefully these fotos are good enough to see the final product.

Have fun.

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do you have pictures of the finished asphalt?

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I’ll try and get some pictures posted.

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A tiny bit less than an eighth what?

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an eighth of an inch I would logically presume… [;)]

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Here is another way of doing roads. http://home.cablerocket.com/~crowley/ashphalt_roads.htm

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Nevermind. How come nobody likes my method? GOd! This is what I come to after I almost I had heat stroke?

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Hey I for one appreciate your efforts to share a technique with us. It would help however if we had some pics to look at showing the final product and maybe the process.
Terry[8D]

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Hard to evaluate the method without photos. Of interest, I did something similar by spreading sand over wet black paint to create a parking lot. I was looking for a “gravel lot” look, but it ended up looking more like asphalt than some of my deliberate asphalt efforts.

I would recommend trying different shades of grey instead of just flat black though - very few asphalt roads are black very long.