| chalkboy8 | 21 Sep 2010 11:15 p.m. PST |
I need to make an airport runway in 15mm. Does anybody have any suggestions? thanks! |
| TheCaptainGeneral | 21 Sep 2010 11:56 p.m. PST |
Super fine grit sandpaper. Cut to shape, paint markings and voila! I have been meaning to do this for a while now. If you spray it with sealer it should take away some of the gritiness so you don't hurt your models! TheCG |
| AndrewGPaul | 22 Sep 2010 2:32 a.m. PST |
Print out a screenshot from Google Maps? There should be some decent hi-res images of airports somewhere in the world.  |
| GeoffQRF | 22 Sep 2010 2:50 a.m. PST |
The fun part is scrolling around looking for those airports in out-of-the-way places, particularly military ones ;-) |
 Doms Decals  | 22 Sep 2010 4:24 a.m. PST |
I lost a day once on Google Earth with just that sort of frivolity…. |
| tuscaloosa | 22 Sep 2010 11:42 a.m. PST |
Hobby crafts stores now sell sheets of a thin, light kind of rubbery material in a wide variety of colors. I find that a few sheets of their black (it's flat, matte black) cut into strips works well, then I lay down two parallel lines of masking tape with a 1mm gap between them and paint white stripes for the taxiways, etc. Let the paint dry, peel off the masking tape, then line up the strips next to each other, and you have a perfectly fine runway. |
| Top Gun Ace | 22 Sep 2010 5:21 p.m. PST |
I'd use concrete colored mat board, and the doctor it up from there. |
| CAG 19 | 23 Sep 2010 1:42 p.m. PST |
Not a great deal of help on actual runways but you want some airport buildings to go with. link Been a while since I've done any AA stuff but this guy is pretty spectacular. Runways in 15mm probably need to be a little smoother than sand paper. You haven't said what area they are for. Loose pack dirt in Oman or Properly laid concrete? Colour is your next thing to look at. Si |
| Jemima Fawr | 28 Sep 2010 12:02 p.m. PST |
Use strips of anti-slip flooring material – available from any builders' merchant or DIY store. It's cheap, much finer than sandpaper and comes in large sheets. For the layout of airfields and airfield markings, there is no better guide than the Air Cadet training manuals: PDF link PDF link |
| CAPTAIN BEEFHEART | 10 Oct 2010 7:35 p.m. PST |
concrete-paint medium grey.
Tarred road-paint paynes gry with lighter and darker highlights.
easy. |
| Dave Crowell | 01 Dec 2010 5:09 a.m. PST |
I think one of the model railroad scenic companies sells sheets of airstrip material. I have been using sheet styrene painted with some sort of woodland scenics gel then painted for roads etc. |
experiments with using recessed bases for figures with cast-on bases.