A few photos showing my work in progress for my roads.  One road crossing tracks coming into town and another heading out to a more rural area with a transfer warehouse, houses, and eventually out of town to a siding for unloading freight cars.

This was my first attempt at making roads for my model railroad.  After considerable research and a failed attempt or two, I found a system that works for me. You will need the following supplies: 1/8″ masonite or 1/8″ foam core, Gesso canvas primer, heavy body acrylic paints in yellow and gray, 1/8″ art tape…

Applied fine green and coarse green turf, clump foliage, trees, and blended all with burnt grass fine turf. Put medium dirt at bottom of cliff, put medium and coarse talus, and flyspecked fine soil turf onto cliff and rock faces. Put on tunnel portals, and pulled up masking tape. Had to run some trains after…

Spray-painted inside of tunnel, casted and attached rock outcroppings, stained rocks and flyspecking with fine soil turf, painted mountain with earthcoat pigment, sealed all with scenic cement

This is 100% Woodland Scenics technique. Foam profile boards and foam sheet goods hot glued. Pillow shaped newspaper wads stacked and taped, covered with plaster cloth and smoothed with an old brush. Next come rock outcroppings, staining/painting, and turf/ground cover. The control panel is a re-work of my original panel from 10+ years ago. The…