How to Model Tarmac using Metcalfe Tarmac Sheets or Printed Paper
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- Опубліковано 7 бер 2017
- Tarmac or asphalt is used all over the world for everything from car parks and roads to yards and docks. There are a multitude of different modelling techniques and over the next few videos I'll look at some of them. This video is looking at Metcalfe Tarmac Sheets and how easy it is to use them.
Materials
Metcalfe Models Tarmac Builder Sheet MOO56 OR any printed paper with a tarmac pattern on. Textures.com is a good place to start.
Grey pens to hide the edges and underneath where the paper butts up.
Pritt or Glue Stick
Woodland Scenics Ground Foam - Blended Turf - Earth Blend - T1350
White Glue
Static Grass (I used WWS/Peco Spring 2mm
Static Grass glue and applicator
Pigments such as Mig Pigments Industrial City Dirt P039 (now discontinued)
Pigment Fixer
Index
00:13 Real World
00:59 Method
14:56 Final Result
15:19 Mini Kathys
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Thank you so much for this, i’m not quite that far ahead yet, but i have been worrying about the roads and how real they look
also subbed to your channel
Glad it was helpful!
Love your channel Kathy! I don't do much scenery myself, but I really appreciate learning about how to do it once I take the dive. Keep up the good work, you are really great!
+Kyle Wilson Thanks! I love scenery and seeing how other people do it.
Quick tip if you don't have a straight edge to work with Kathy.....overlap the sheets and then make a cut and voila you will have two adjoining sheets that marry up perfectly!
+Tase What a great tip! I'm cutting on the floor now which is carpet so not the best base!
Absolutely brilliant, will definitely have a go when I get to that part of my layout...Simon
+Simon -Liverton Central Glad you liked it.
Kathy, you have answered some questions I had and asked in your last video. Thank you, I think I might use the same method you have just shown on parts of my layout. Thank you so much!! Cheers
Thanks David, glad I could help! Good luck with your layout and a few more ways to do tarmac coming up.
Okay, I will be watching!! Thank you
Hi Kathy,
I've only just found your channel and I'm really glad I have, I've been working my way through your videos and not only am I really enjoying them (especially the Mini's), but I am also learning so much, thank you so very much for taking the time and effort to make them...
I'm just trying to make a diorama for my model cars and for the road surface I am using the underside of some shed roofing felt which looks a lot like some of the roads in my area and the printed sheets you have used, plus, if you use the topside of the felt, it looks like the cheap surface repairs they do just using tar and those stones that just love windscreens 😉, I just thought I'd let you know incase you needed a road surface outside...
Many thanks...
John...
JOHN. That’s an interesting idea, thank you. Good luck with your roads, they sound really fascinating.
Mini Kathy was wondering nice park to do a rock show!
Another great video thanks Kathy.
+Al Wood's Modelling Mayhem Thanks!
Look good on layout keep safe keep posting videos up
Just finishing off the diorama for my next video.
Nice job Kathy .....thanks for showing........fred
+Fre'd Shedding Thanks!
Great video. I have been steering clear of paper/card products due to the wide temperature differences in my loft, but I think I'll definitely be giving this one a go. I have been using emery paper, but I don't really need texture, just the "look"!
+davie maclean This product is card so seems quite robust.
Love the mini Kathy love your videos
Nice job Kathy 👍
Thanks!
You have a layout!! Never knew!
Beautiful hands!❤
Good skills - thanks!
Thanks!
i have been experimenting with some things and discovered that gesso+baking soda makes for a structure that imo resembles asphalt roads quite well.
those same experiments also yielded a recipe for crackle paint: gesso + corn starch (to a consistency of heavy latex)
Thanks. Sounds like interesting experiments.
Thanks for sharing .
Thanks!
Great video Kathy. Quick tip, I find the cheap glue sticks from the pound shops are better as they provide a very flat even surface. Pritt Stick can be quite lumpy.
Also I also find it better to glue the entire surface as card can lift in the middle if it gets damp.
I just grabbed what was in my box but you're right, pritt stick can be lumpy. It ran out half way through and I ended up with an expensive acid free one that I'd bought when framing some paper cut pictures.
The card is quite thick but anything can rise with damp (even inch thick wood as I found out on a diorama base once).
Another glue that I would recommend trying is a good bookbinder's glue (like Yes! Paste) or a wallpaper border paste. I do dollhouse miniatures and those are my go to glues for attaching wallpaper to wooden dollhouse walls. It lasts a lot longer than a glues stick and shouldn't buckle the papers.
+joannesminis Thanks, that's really good to know. Finding the right glue is so important.
Hi Kathy I use sandpaper for my asphalt roads and parking lots it works great and if you just fold the paper up it gives you some of the best looking cracks in the world worn out sand paper with cloth backing works the best and it's very easy to weather and get all the techniques you want without having to go through a lot of trouble literally it allows you to cut every corner of modeling a beautiful Road the hard way and doing it in just a few minutes
+CSX2586 Rail Rider Raby It sounds like a great technique. What “roughness” do you use?
Im not shur im away for holiday i will be home Saturday and will find out but i can tell you the used stuff is already the best texture and will normally have a weathered road look to it i have a video of a diaraamia i did if you want to see the finished product plus a giveaway hint T1000
If you go to my channel it will be titled( test vid repaired camera )
+CSX2586 Rail Rider Raby Thanks!
I'm home I'm going to try to make you a short video on my road and parking lot techniques in a little bit
Thank you for introducing the Metcalfe tarmac product and for sharing your techniques to transform it into what one would see in a parking lot or similar "paved" area. In the US, I found a dense foam product called Funky Foam or Silly Winks that comes in sheets of various thickness. I like the black version which I use for asphalt roads and parking areas. Because it is a foam, it can be painted and weathered with acrylic paints. Because I model n-scale, I find creating cracks in the surface looks out of scale, I simply paint the surface in a rather sloppy manner with a grimy black paint to get a grey hue. Thanks again.
I love using foam and that's in a video coming up. It's one of my favourite things to use for modelling! N-scale is a challenge for adding details and I love the way that you've approached it. Sometimes it's just the suggestion of cracks rather than cracks itself isn't it.
Nice vid. Thanks for sharing the technique. Personally, I still prefer to use sandpaper. Laying, shaping, etc., is much the same and application of some pigments can really make it pop.
+amy Hennessey I've never really used sand paper but I do use the grit which is coming up soon. I still struggle fitting any paper product around complex track work as cutting it to fit is a nightmare.
Have you tried opaque black hot glue? It looks a lot like the seams you get where they repair asphalt by covering up cracks, with a similar dull shine.
Sounds interesting but just wondering how you got it to workin HO or small scales? Even my hot glue pen is far too large to do anything that precise.
Sanding belts are good for car parks and long straight roads.
Good tip, thank you.
I just join up tarmac sheets using road markings and darker and lighter patches were workers have repaired the road, you can also make them straight across as if water or cable has been dug up, basically I try and make my road look more natural and dishevelled and this really does hide that damn dirty lines...
Great ideas for hiding the lines!
great job Kathy, the edges look fantastic. but how do you hide the straight seem between the 2 sheets.. nothing in the world would ever be that straight, just a thought but what if you took the 2 sheets and cut them together,, making curved lines, high light with marker,, and one big crack???
+sparky107107 Hi, that's a great solution and I've used it successfully with foam. Here, I just accepted that there was a seam and tarmac often has square sections as they lay the tarmac in batches. Plus, I've a building going on top eventually which will hide it even further.
spring is almost here in hartford!
+Tony Fleetwood Wonderful! It's sunny here today, the daffs are nearly out, the grass is green... and tomorrow it will be raining again!
Kathy Millatt its still pretty chilly here as well! took a few days for my recent scene to dry too haha. my basements nice in the summer though 😊
I've been using Bragdon powders and find they don't need to be "fixed" they seem to mostly stay where you put them. My problem is that if I ever spray over them with something like dullcote they become quite dark, and seem to stay dark unlike yours that lightened up over the weeks. What exactly is this pigment fixer ? Would it help "set" bragdon powders?
Fixing pigments can be a real pain can't it! Pigment fixer is just a solvent but I've no idea what it is. I've actually just used isopropyl alcohol in the past and pigments become tough enough for scenery. Some people swear by Tamiya X20-A thinner. If you are doing well handled rolling stock or models then it may not be strong enough but for this kind of use, it would be fine.
How has those tarmac sheet held up over the past 10 months?
Great but there’s no reason for it not to. It’s at the back of the layout and nothing touches it.
Nope - Much better. Thanks!
Very good idea using this type of glue! Would it work for fixing backdrops too?
I understand the Metcalfe sheets are not structured, just printed? I use dark grey sanding paper for building roads and I lightly weather it to get slight colour differences. I make cracks with a knife and then paint them and wipe them off again.
Backdrops are often thick enough that wallpaper paste is an option. Do a test first! Sand paper is great for small areas as it has textures. Metcalfe is just printed.
@@KathyMillatt I adore the style of these Metcalfe buildings (I have ordered some and will soon add them to the layout), but it's a pitty the cardboard is not embossed, such as buildings by Umbum (Clever Paper) or wall sheets by Noch. Thanks for your advice on the backdrop. I ruined my first backdrop by using wood glue...
@@railway187 That's a shame!
Are the sheets strong enough to make a crown in a road like you can do with foam?
They are fairly tough card so I am going to say a provisional yes. I haven't experimented but I think it would work.
Thanks! I think I'm going to print a page on my inkjet printer and see if I can laminate it to 2mm foam.
Where are you taking from 0.0 it looks like a control station. Also, for the glue, try sanding the shiny surface with very fine sand paper, it'll help increase the grip
+Stargate404 hiya, sorry, what do you mean about 0.0? I do need to sand that styrene, you're right.
Kathy Millatt, hello! Sorry I meant to say "where are you taping from 0.0 it looks like a control station" if you're asking what 0.0 means it's like a wide-eyed emoji haha sorry for the confusion!
NiG Productions have returned to the market. so now we have 3- brands to choose from
Yes, so exciting. Their neutral wash is my favourite for buildings etc.
Could you use “wet & dry” paper as tarmac?
Yes, some people do. I’ve not done it myself but you can crack it realistically too.
That's what I use and it looks fine. You can paint it too. Sanding belts work well for long straights and car parks too.
Could not decipher the website quoted for downloading tarmac sheets
All materials are listed in the video description
How about using Loctite Gel super glue?
My favourite at the moment is Gorilla but I haven’t used Loctite in decades so I don’t know how they compare.
I loved the way the grassy patches turned out.
Shame about the mini Kathy complaining about the temperature range. I guess in a couple of months she'll be complaining it's too hot with the layout lights turned on. Just tell her to get a sun dress and quit whining ... oh wait, I just remembered, she doesn't listen to you. :)
+mpeterll So true! I keep meaning to sort out air conditioning to stop her whining!
Christ, Kathy! Run a furnace duct up there! Or use a portable electric heater until you get it done! 8-)
Why would either of those help?
@@KathyMillatt Sorry Kathy; I was under the impression you were freezing in what looks like an attic layout room. Perhaps I misunderstood. Trying to work when it's cold is frustrating at the least!
Keep on trucking with those informative and enjoyable videos!
@@carmium it’s the opposite. It’s like an oven in the summer getting up to nearly 40. I just don’t go up there!
@@KathyMillatt Good reason NOT to run a duct up there! X-D
I am having a problem understanding your audio because it seems to come to me muffled lacking the mid and high range frequencies. I hate to complain because I love your videos but I can't hear all of what you say. Is there anything you can do to improve your audio quality?
This video is years old. Do you have the same problem with any videos from the last year?
for car park when there be like mud and mukund oil stains on the tarmac, what would be a good way to make that love? I'm sorry you're so cold perhaps you could relocate to blood tropics and model Saint Kitt railway in the Caribbean or somethiing, love you wouldn't need your sweatshirts and stuff so I could do your videos in your bikini LOL
Ok I made a video just for you head over and check it out. Video titled as(A short video for Kathy Millatt) thanks and hope you find it useful
+CSX2586 Rail Rider Raby Thanks! I’ll check it out.
I hope you found it and it helps let me know
Mig , sorry, cannot type .
Sorry but you can easily see the bulk of the join........may be OK for a railway but it's not a diorama standard ......its rubbish
I don’t think I said it was diorama standard. If you don’t like this method then I’ve done a number of other methods which I think are more suitable for close up work.