Was at my favorite lawn and tractor company…
Saw a tub of crack stopper drive patch – used to repair asphalt driveways. About $7 for 2Q (I forget…too lazy to go upstairs).
Anybody ever used this for roads on a layout? If so - what were the results?
If not…I’ll let you know in 24 hours. I tested in tonight…will see how it looks / holds up.
That’ll be good to know. Inquiring minds want to know.
So far, looks fantastic. Dried last night - and looks very realistic!
Here’s the product information:
http://www.gardner-gibson.com/linedetails.aspx?id=20
The tub is 10lbs actually - so it will be awhile before I use it all! Either need one heck of a layout…or shift from trains to cars, and model the interstate highway system 
Yeah, I’ve seen that stuff at lowe’s. Can you put up pics of your work?
It may be worth my while to snag a bucket of this stuff.
Can you use this stuff indoors without incurring the wrath of your significant other? I’d imagine that some of these products give off a lot of petro-chemical smells.
I think you should tell us the results in 6 months and a year also. That stuff does not set up hard and is designed to expand and contract with temperature differences. It may stay gooey.
Just make sure you have a few tacos and beers before you do the roads and she’ll never notice the petro-chemical smells. [(-D]
There was basically no smell – no worse or better than spackel. (Ok, if I get up REAL close now and stick my nose on it, I can smell asphalt-y. But, not from a distance. Test will be over time…)
I’m in more trouble with the other half re: using airbursh to weather my track…that and I feel REALLY good afterwards
It’s firmed up hard - very much like a plaster or spackel. I’ll get some pics up.
T
HERE ARE SOME PICS (haven’t finished the groundcover/edging, or line painting…day one!)
Good pics! I’m gonna have to snag a bucket of that stuff.
At first I was thinking…no, not what I’m looking for. Then I looked at the pics and Wow! JUST what I was looking for! I am also doing a slot car track and wanted some non-slot car roads that crossed the train track. Here it is! The right color and everything. I don’t know why I thought it was going to be a concrete color…
What did you use for the forms to get such nice edges?
Mike/Nightshade
Put down masking tape…spread the filler on with a spackling / putty knife…and gently pulled the tape up (whilst the filler was still wet).
Hate to be negative but the pics make the surface look a bit too grainy… I realise that this may be the pics and they are close ups… BUT then it occured to me that that surface might be just the right thing for weathering dirt in with powders etc to get a really good impression of an asphalt road… which never stays nice and black from the moment the people laying it down walk on it in their muddy boots.
The other thing that occrs to me is “How sticky is it”? Does it stay on and does it cope with moving the layout? TIA … and thanks for telling us [^]
Jeffrey,
You better get over there and “snag a bucket” quick smart. There’s a lot of readers here and demand for that gear could go through the roof.
In the latest Australian Model Railway Magazine there is a comment on modeller power. Someone wrote a piece on how to use a certain cloth to make cheap grass mats. Now the cloth is sold out of the supermarkets![:D]
Here is another thought I remember doing this once as a kid in the sand pile. what about black or grey latex paint mixed with fine sifted sand. then spackle that down. It would stay in place, but easy to remove, and would not stink much Reeves