Chevron_GATX
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I live in Los Angeles, the land of freeways! In the past, I've used #400-grit black waterproof sandpaper for asphalt. To me, it looks and feels just like the real thing. Although I just made a $99 investment in a fairly large Kato Unitram street scenery piece, I would like to eventually build more prototypical-looking highways. I found this blog which details one technique. I've included a photo from the blog below:
[Not my photo: Photo by Jamie of http://csxdixieline.blogspot.com/2010/03/howto-build-modern-highway.html]
He is modeling in N-scale. This is great since I was wondering how I would apply road markings to the sandpaper. The author of the above blog stated he used:
• Woodland Scenics MG760 dry-transfer stripes (white).
• Woodland Scenics MG763 dry-transfer stripes (yellow).
Here's another excellent freeway build with signage that really impressed me:
[Not my photo: Screen-grab from a video by model-builder, Nils J. Mohberg]
This is from a 2012 YouTube video. The author indicates that the overhead freeway sign was completely scratch-built and lit with 5mm LEDs. Detail was enhanced using some etched open-grate the builder bought at a local hobby shop. The outdoor display advertising is a BLMA billboard with added custom detailing and lighting. As I mentioned in another thread, I have some now-discontinued Alps heat-transfer printers which produce excellent, offset-quality graphics, capable of printing on a variety of substrates. I hope to use that to produce similar types of signage (hopefully a working driver still exists for OS X).
[Not my photo: Photo by Jamie of http://csxdixieline.blogspot.com/2010/03/howto-build-modern-highway.html]
He is modeling in N-scale. This is great since I was wondering how I would apply road markings to the sandpaper. The author of the above blog stated he used:
• Woodland Scenics MG760 dry-transfer stripes (white).
• Woodland Scenics MG763 dry-transfer stripes (yellow).
Here's another excellent freeway build with signage that really impressed me:
[Not my photo: Screen-grab from a video by model-builder, Nils J. Mohberg]
This is from a 2012 YouTube video. The author indicates that the overhead freeway sign was completely scratch-built and lit with 5mm LEDs. Detail was enhanced using some etched open-grate the builder bought at a local hobby shop. The outdoor display advertising is a BLMA billboard with added custom detailing and lighting. As I mentioned in another thread, I have some now-discontinued Alps heat-transfer printers which produce excellent, offset-quality graphics, capable of printing on a variety of substrates. I hope to use that to produce similar types of signage (hopefully a working driver still exists for OS X).
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