Tired of trying your patience with roofing, tarring and paving. The blobs of paint and the sand you may spread over the wet paint before it dries.
Well, go to your local hardware store and to the sand paper supply and there you will finde every imaginable type of roof, pavement and sidewalk assortment of sandpaper !! I choose the varied packages, and go from there, the fine grain sandpaper is great for concrete paving and with the right weathering and blackening from tire marks ( skid and accelaration ) it looks very convincing. Sidewalks are worked into the layout as easily.
The tarpaper rooftops are the same principle, glue the sandpaper directly onto the kit’s roof. Any color from sand to black is acceptable and then just add details as you feel, i.e. smokestacks, vent pipes, chimmeys and whatever you decide. The sandpaper concept will save hours of work and then can be given various washes of color to extend the details.
The sandpaper as a product appears to fit HO scale well and would seem to work for any scale. Give it a try and get back with me…I also have military and aircraft models from the WW 2 era and with about 50 years of modeling in general I still look for ideas and share mine alike.
I’m a retired Navy Chief and reside in Deming New Mexico with lots of reference subjects for railroading as we have a lot of history in the subject around here.
Thanks for reading this bit of hopefully helpful info…
Faithfully,
Yard-dog ( that’s from having two dogs that have a blast at watching my train yard [8D]
I have a structure right now that I am getting ready to roof, so I will have a look in my woodwork shop and see if I have any suitable sand paper. Thanks for the suggestion.
I have an 8 year old son who had become obsessed with WW2 aircraft. His favorite movie is the Battle of Britain. For his birthday tomorrow, he is going to get a pair of really nice models, one an ME109 and the other a Hawker Hurricaine (A replica of Douglas Baders plane) My hope is that this will become a life long love of History for him, and that he will develop an understanding of the part that the men that flew these machines have in where we are today.
I’ve done it, and it works good. Normal wood sand paper for gravel roofs… Black wet/dry sand paper for tar paper. You can slice the black stuff up and create strips, then brush paint along the seams like tar. That spray glue stuff that comes in cans works good for fixing it down.
Well, the sand-paper roll-roofing I’ve heard of for ages (and indeed, have a building from the 1980s with K&S sanding film…
But roads and sidewalks? I don’t know…