Car Chase Game - road pieces - Updated 13/12 - Board Pieces finished

[Rabbitz]

      My Gob is most defiantly smacked

[joroas]

When I fist saw this, i expected it be the usual stuff we see, but this is a whole new level of detail and accuracy.  Well done! 

[Marine0846]

Beautiful, beautiful.
Such attention to detail.
               

[white knight]

Looks very realistic. Excellent work. The matte varnish on the cars also works very well to make them look less like toys, I will have to try that.

[Mr.Dodo]

Brilliant, thankyou!

[Hawkeye]

I'm speechless - this is absolutely stunning! The attention to detail, the final look of it, everything. Brilliant!

[Daeothar]

Cheers; glad it is still well received, even when raised from the dead...

As it is though, I plan to use these again in the near future, and by then hope to have finished some of the additional features, such as the mailbox, maybe even a phone booth, the phonelines, hedges, traffic signs etc.

I'm actually even contemplating building another section, but with a bridge crossing over it. The road will narrow under the bridge (which will be brickwork I think), adding an extra hazard for the speeding cars...

[Hawkeye]

Sounds excellent, Daeothar - sorry about the threadomancy. I'm not certain what came over me!

Love the idea of the road narrowing under a bridge - very hazardous!

[Argonor]

I was just pointed here by a more recent thread on roads - and I must say, this little project is quite jaw-dropping! 

I have to ask, though, as I've at some point considered using sandpaper for another purpose, but dismissed it because of the, well, sanding effect: Does painting the sandpaper make it less 'grinding', so it wouldn't be 'dangerous' to lay a model on its side on it, or should this kind of solution be reserved for rubber tyres?

[Daeothar]

IT LIVES!!




Still; thanks Argonor; much appreciated.

As for the sanding paper; I've used a relatively small grain type to start with. And you are absolutely right in thinking that the paint takes away a lot of the abbrasiveness of the sanding paper.

I still would not like to rub a painted mini on the road surface, as it does remain course (obviously), but it's quite safe to roll wheels across it. Now, if you have models with fixed/glued wheels and you slide them over the roads, I'm pretty sure there'll be skid marks on the tarmac and the bottom of your wheels will be blank eventually.

But since I am using 1/43 die-cast models with rubber tires anyway, it is not an issue for me.

However, I've not used them for anything else but the chase game. As someone in my thread suggested though, they'd be pretty nice for use as terrain on a full gaming table, with some nice outside edges. I would have to build those first, before using the roads on the table. But I do think that using them in such a capacity would increase the risk of damaging paintjobs (for instance because models need to be placed on their sides to indicate being knocked out etc).

Then again; I also have a much older scratchbuilt bunker on which I used the exact same method, and I've never had issues with that...

[Argonor]

Thanks, much appreciated! 

[FramFramson]

Bumping this again for a wee bit of a question: Sorry if I missed it, but how did you apply and paint the tar snakes?

Also, do you know what grit sandpaper it was you used? I suspect it may have been 100-200 or so, but I'm curious if you recall.

Thanks!

[Daeothar]

No problem; after all, this project is directly related to the one in the threadomancy project.

The tar is simply pva glue, slightly thinned with water, and applied with a cocktail stick. I found the end result to be too wide though, so I will probably not thin the glue when doing this again.

I painted and weathered right over it, and in the end I believe I picked out the tarmac patch with another wash of thinned black paint (to make it look younger/newer) and simply painted the tar itself with straight black paint when almost all the weathering was done.

As for the grit of the paper; I remember going to the DIY store and just feeling the different sanding papers till I found one that I liked. The packaging is long gone, but I have some left from this project, so maybe there's something printed on the back.

I will check and let you know...

[FramFramson]

Fantastique! Thanks!

[roadskare63]

I don't game, but I build sets and terrains and whatnots...really a brilliant build I must say!!