How to Model Tarmac Roads
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- Опубліковано 12 лип 2016
- How to Model Tarmac Roads
This is the first instalment in how to model a tarmac or asphalt road.
Roads are everywhere so it's vital to get them right. They are in every country (well maybe not Antarctica) and there is every colour of tarmac under the sun from jet black to almost white. With the advent of cycle lanes and junction markings, there is even green and red.
It is important to look at real photos as the image we have in our mind does not always tie into reality.
My key ingredient is craft foam. It's 2mm thick and easily found in shops like HobbyCraft - generally in the kids' section. It has the perfect texture for tarmac so the key is not to smother it.
Materials
Craft Foam - 2mm in black or grey
Artists' acrylic paints - I used Natural and Payne's grey for the road and Tamiya Rubber Black for the dark patches
Pigments - I used Mig - Industrial City Dirt, Ashes White and Smoke Black
Matt Varnish - I used Vallejo
Scriber but the back of an X-acto knife will do
Masking tape and white PVA glue
Index
00:10 The Real World
00:34 Method
17:54 Final Result
18:44 Mini Kathys
20:46 Close
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love the way you disguised the joint. looking forward to the rest of your build.
Thanks a lot!
Wow, this is awesome! Thanks for sharing you fantastic technique!
+Buddy Long Glad you found it helpful and it is easy.
love the video and details on the road.
Great looking Road Ma'am very cool thanks:) Grey from USA
Watched quite a few of your how to videos now and thanks they are very interesting and informative. I've not done a lot of modeling since I was a kid, now in my 50s, but I'm getting back into it and hope I can get some inspiration from your videos and some of the other youtubers I have been watching.
I’m glad I can encourage you to get back into such a great hobby. You won’t regret it.
Very brave wearing a white top when using shades of black and grey. I'd almost certainly end up with a speckled shirt. I had a modest railway layout when I was a teenager and I am now getting back to some serious modelling. Your videos will be most excellent in helping me to create what I hope will be a reasonable quality layout. Thank you.
Good luck with your new layout.
Google street view is perfect for working out what the road surface is like in your chosen area, especially when the chosen location is several 1000's miles away. I've just been to a small midwest town without leaving my living room in the UK. Just want Google time travel now!
+eeclass20 Google time travel would be excellent! I love street view and it's useful in so many ways.
@@KathyMillatt omg google time travel is the best idea i have heard in awhile
I'm building a Japanese bullet train/mainline station diorama and my entire source of information and inspiration has been from Google Earth and Google Maps. I love the 3D function in particular, its surprising how much detail you can get from it and you can even see the trains, albeit in a weird distorted way, but if you know what to look for you can easily work them out! The user images are also a valuable source of information. The irony is I'll have built the layout even before I finally get to visit Japan!
I'm going to try this method on my new n scale project - where I have a street with a freight branch runs down it. The branch has sidings and the track zigzags to get turnouts properly aligned. This seems a better method than using the usual plaster method. The turnouts will be tricky but I'm up for the challenge! Love the level of detail you demonstrate with colours, washes etc. and repairs. Another advanced technique to try.
Good luck. I hope it goes well for you.
Great technique...I will try it on our layout. I was able to find some similar foam at a Hobby Lobby. Doing things on an layout is often a bit trickier than on a small diorama, but I appreciate the ideas I am getting from your videos. Keep up the great work!
Stephen Bennett I've used this technique on my own layout and it's easy to use on large spaces too. Let me know how it turns out for you.
Love this. I’m going to try this. Thanks for sharing. David
Glad you enjoyed it and good luck with it.
Awesome tutorial - thanks!
Thanks Mark, glad you liked it.
I found this channel recently and I'm happy I did. I'm a 1/35 scale armour builder and I've been wanting to improve my groundwork and I'm finding these videos very interesting.
I'm actually planning a scene with a tank on a asphalt road but I don't think I've seen these rubber mats in art shops here in New Zealand but I hope to find some.
CursedMonkey hi, glad you found the video useful. The mats are called art foam and they are in the children's section. They can easily cut them up to make shapes etc. Hope you find something similar.
Thank you! Just what I needed for my road projekt =)
Peter, glad you find it useful. Good luck with your project.
Hi Kathy. Great videos and I'm learning a lot from them.
When you were pairing the foam for joining the road together, I would think putting double sided tape down below the lower piece so there is less chance of it moving, with it being so flexible. Maybe adding tape between the pieces as well prior to cutting a wavy edge
That’s a great idea. They do move a little over time and with temperature changes so that would help.
Kathy, this is a great "how-to" video - thanks for posting!! I have used foam sheets a little in the past but have not "weathered" them. I need to try this on my new layout. Have you modeled concrete roads with expansion joints? I'd be interested to see your techniques for concrete as I have a large intermodal yard to "pave". Take care, Brian.
Hi Brian, concrete sidewalks are up next week but I have to admit, I would sand more than I did and it's still bugging me. One to fix before the following video.
Thanks for all you do!!
Thanks a lot!
Thanks also for taking the time to reply to everyone's posts!
Hi enjoyed yr video clip. As I am a newer builder I need all the info I can store in my head.
PS- its good to see another builder use there sharp scissors oooppss... i should say
" teeth" to do there tape cutting 😀. Cheerz for now. Denise .W.A.
Thank you!
You mentioned using a dental pick for making cracks in the surface. Here's a tip to save money on these picks: while I was at the dentist office getting my teeth cleaned one day, I mentioned to my dental technician that I used similar tools for claymation/stop motion work. We talked about it a bit, and then she volunteered to give me some of her worn out picks, and gave me about 15 different types - free. I now have a life-time supply, so don't be afraid to ask your dental tech next time you pay her/him a visit. It can take some of the pain out of the experience. Thanks for the tarmac tips.
Great advice. My sister was there on Monday so I’ve just missed a trick!
THANK YOU DETAIL VIDEO AS GREAT JOY
Thanks a lot.
hmm hmm my hobbies and buld ups have exploded with detail since ive been watching your tutorial videos , so yeah im very thankful.:)
Glad I could help!
@@KathyMillatt lol its like 5 am on this side of the atlantic lol that was a fast reply
It's nearly lunchtime here!
@@KathyMillatt yeah i was up pretty late removing paint from and old old old resin kit that i had for many years , i want to re- paint it and bulid it up with a diorama. it was a real crappy paint job from back when i was less than an amateur hobbyist. anyhoot sorry so many replies have a nice lunch and G nit.
Martha Stewart "ROAD MAKING CREW"- EXCELLENT INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO.... Very noce,,,
LEBIII
+Zen Modeling Thanks! Glad you liked it.
Whoa wait a minute here... Your Funny TOO!!!!! DOPE!!!!😎👍👍LEBIII
+Zen Modeling I try but I’m not sure I always succeed.
In the UK a standard 2-lane road is almost 17.5 foot wide and will get the standard white lines down the centre (the type and size of line depends on the nature of the road and what it's top surface is). Roads narrower than this don'tget the centre lines.
+Neil Dahlgaard-Sigsworth This is the US but I guess they have similar rules.
A really cheap way to make long straight roads and large car parks is to use cheap sanding belts that are generally about 100mm wide and 900mm long. You can hide any gaps with road markings etc. The good thing about sanding belts and sandpaper in general is the texture that looks like a real road and they can easily be painted too. The sanding belts I used were a dark red colour which is pretty close to the red type roads that bus lanes and such use.
Great tip, thanks!
@@KathyMillatt Woohoo, my first celebrity reply lol btw in the next series of The Great Model Railway Challenge can you persuade them to do a Japanese theme pleeease (bearing in mind how hugely fanatical about trains the Japanese are and the huge variety of (and often bizzare looking) trains they have? Go on, you know you want to (well I do anyway!)
Tsu 800 I never think of myself as a celebrity! I’m not sure yet if there’ll be another series but anything is possible.
@@KathyMillatt Well please try and persuade them to make it because it is absolutely fascinating viewing! If they do make a new series how about including a Kathy's tips section?
@@tsu8003 That's in the hands of Channel 5 I'm afraid. I don't think the show is about me but the awesome teams so the tips will have to stay on YT...
Great! What foam is that? I can't find it here (Italy)
It’s just 1mm craft foam but if you google EVA foam then it’s the same stuff.
Kathy: love your work with this craft foam. I do have one question: there are some pencils from Woodland Scenics to paint the center lines and other horizontal markings, BUT these are pretty expensive and often you receive a faulty one. Is there an easy way to do these markings?
Thanks in advance for any tips!....BTW: love your channel.
Rolando
Thanks a lot. I’ve used the WS pens for doing markings and you can buy similar through art shops. They do clog easily don’t they! Other than that, you can create stencils and spray/stipple the markings. They need a steady hand cutting them or a cutting machine like scanncut or cricut.
@@KathyMillatt : thanks a bunch!.....
Hi there. I have just recently been looking through your channel and I must say, you do some amazing tutorials. Excellent!!! Now, this material you are using for the tarmac, is there another name for it? I don't believe I have seen it before here in Sweden. I usually use sandpaper which gives excellent results, but my issue has been the glue. I get lots of trapped air bubbles, which are a nuisance. Is there a type of glue you would recommend in gluing them down? I use wood glue or carpenters glue. I use this to glue the sandpaper unto the formboard. I am sure this has to do with the wood glue as it as too much moisture. Thanks for a great channel Kathy. BTW, your railroad looks awesome. I've always wanted to do a railroad layout but no space. So I opted for model making instead.
BTW, do you peel off the backing of the formboard?
+tikingful Thanks! There's a lot of questions there so hopefully I can answer them all. The foam is craft foam. It's aimed at kids so you can often find it in that section of hobby shops.
If you are having problems with water in your glues then Deluxe Materials make a card glue but it is a contact adhesive so you only get one go at lining things up.
I use plain white glue for almost everything and just use bricks as weights to flatten everything out.
Model railroads take up a lot of space and I like doing dioramas too for the variety and ease as you can do them on your work bench.
Thanks for the comments!
Kathy Millatt thank you for your response. I will do a check up on that special glue you mentioned. Once again, great channel. Do you have a somewhat date that you are aiming for to complete your layout? Byw, you can check out my models/ dioramas on Facebook if you like. Just type in Charles king II models or trucks or dioramas and you should see some of my work.
+tikingful I'll look you up. I have no date in mind as this is a hobby and I don't want deadlines in it. I get those at work. However, 2022 is looming so that's almost a date for some bits to be finished. I don't want it all finished as I enjoy building it.
hi Kathy love the videos can you tell me where i can get the thick blue foam from
I buy mine from Amazon. It’s now black mind.
I'm using a framed cork board for a road Diorama (have u used this surface before)??
+Zen Modeling Not specifically for roads but I’ve used it a lot under track etc.
Kathy Millatt on a tip I read that it looked exactly like our blacktop here in Texas (after painted black that is) I was A Texas State Trooper for years on that stuff & after I tried it the tip was "Spot On" (I'm making a Diorama of a crash my partner had in 1987 - I'll send u a link of it when completed... LEBIII
Hi Kathy, where do you buy your Mig pigments through? Thank you in advance.
+David King Hi, I've stockpiled them over the years but now, sadly, they are out of production. Try Ammo by Mig or AJ Interactive instead.
Nuts. They are hard to find here in Canada. Any suggestions on alternatives?
+David King Just the Ammo by Mig or AK Interactive.
I like this idea but the wind blew some felt of the shed roof so I'm gona try that 1st
Thanks and good luck when you do get around to it.
Hi Kathy have you ever did a video showing your layout??
Hi Curtis, I'm planning to do a new one over the summer once I've pulled the plastic sheeting up that's protecting against upper level scenery accidents.
Very nice video would thus work for N scale
+Doug McKay It should work as well for N-scale. Thanks.
OMG your British AMAZING
I would so merry you lol