Ken, I really like the darker ‘weathering’ areas in the traffic lanes on your streets, nice and subtle, just right. Is that chalk or airbrush?
Jarrell
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Horn, nice work - wish I would known about that fun foam stuff before I started on my town scene. I like how you have that spur track going across the street.
I have a few pics of the town scene on my previous layout. Since it was an ‘island’ type rather than around-the-walls, I was able to get photos of both the front and rear walls of the shop buildings. This represented a steel mill town, so my scene wasn’t very “gentrified” - no monuments or manicured city parks. Instead, it was more like a hardscrabble “strip” with bars and cheap restauants, plus a barber shop, drug store and union hall. The streets are the Walthers cornerstone ‘concrete’ sections (including sidewalks), spraypainted with a flat beige-colored paint from Wally World. I wanted to replicate the residue of exhaust carbon and tire rubber left by vehicles to make the road surfaces look more believable.
Here is a view of River Ave. (main street) showing all the taverns and food joints where the mill workers liked to hang out after the end of each 8-hour shift. The street ends at a gate into the steel mill (blue shacks). The areas without weathering represent recently-poured concrete. The surface in the left corner that looks like a parking lot is actually a temporary cover over the aisle, placed there for the duration of the photo shoot.
