Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Road / Street Line Painting in G-Scale Garden Train Railroad Land - 06-17-14

Blog Entry By Bob


Back in August of last year, in our Blog Entry:   
Continuing Fight Against Weeds , we introduced rubber roads to our layout.  At the very end of that entry, I stated that I was performing line painting tests using different materials. 

After keeping the test strips out all winter, I decided that acrylic paint from our local art store was the easiest to apply and looked the best.

I first started off easy, with one yellow line down the middle of a street.

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I then created a big white stop bar.

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Using a metal ruler and a thin brush, I became
proficient and making neat straight lines.

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I painted parking spaces in the brewery parking lot.

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I created railroad crossing markings.

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I created turning lane arrows.

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I finished off with parking spaces downtown.

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While I was working on the roads, the dam wall collasped
making the road unstable.

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I removed a section of the dirt behind the dam and
inserted a couple of cinder blocks the stabilize the
slope

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