I am in the process of instlling about 35 ft. of Faller Car System roadway. Warning !! do not use iron wire screening on the embankment! The magnets on the vehicles will be attracted to the iron screening. My first error was to use old slot car track as the base for the road. The two embedded electric conductor wires, also, attract the vehicle magnets. After eliminating these two errors, and using Hydrocal Smooth plaster to just cover the “Faller Guide Wire”, I spray painted the roadway medium gray. My next idea was to add “guard rails” along both sides of the road. I ordered (what I thought was), 20yds of prefab guard rails. What I got was 20 packages of “teensy” sections that one has to cut out with an Exacto knife and glue together, to form 20 yards of “so-so quality” guard rails. I (gr!)did the tedious work of “fabricating” the guard rails. Now, I am about to drill hundreds of shallow holes, spray paint the road side, and then glue the guard rails in place. They may be OK for short sections of roadway, but not for 20 yds. After that, I plan to use the strips of WS “road stripe” decals. Has anyone had experience with applying the decal strips, (especially on curves)? Do they stick to a painted surface? Bob Hahn
I ordered some of the road stripe decals a few weeks ago and gave up after trying a few. One they didn’t stick too well to my road surface (WS road system stained with Apple Barrel dilute black). Two, the overlap showed up pretty obviously so you could see where each decal started and stopped. Removed the decals and just used black chart tape as a mask and hand painted the white and yellow stripes. The paint wicked into the road and gave it nice texture and some of the “bleed” under the tape gives a nice variation like the real deal. May have had better luck had I sealed the road with clear gloss first and the dull coated after but didn’t go that route.