"How Do You Do Your Roads?" Topic

Which type of roads do you use?

Either Kallistra plastic flocked modular roads for their hex system

Or

MDF covered with paste as sold by The Last Valley (UK). For open tables.

I also have a reserve of roads in texted felt manufactured by S&A Scenics.

Felt or bird-cage sanded sheets

Felt with textured surface and track markings. Since my gaming boards or mats have very tiny rocks in the terrain flock glued mixture, the road felt tends to stick with a light "Velcro like" effect. For rivers and streams I use a printed fleece material, again textured on the edge for the banks.

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Felt or masking tape.

What kind of road?

For dirt roads I use…..dirt. Nothing looks better, is more flexible and you can't beat the price.

For paved roads, printed card stock held down with painter's tape. This allows me to make custom roads for every game (though now I have quite a lot of ready printed pieces).

Felt tan or gray

All kinds: felt, printed on a terrain map, foam board, carved into a base board, various commercial roads, construction paper, the area between two strings, a foamboard highway cloverleaf, and a stream of ballast. I think that's it.

Basically, whatever I think will work with the rest of the scenery.

For micro scale, masking tape, but it looks awful in photos -- that is, it looks like masking tape. It is within budget, however.

I like Extra Crispy's approach and his solution of clean up with a portable vacuum.

The vacuum is used with gravel roads when we use Woodland Scenics railroad ballast. the club has several different mixes – grayish, brownish, etc. When using dirt I just roll up the mats and shake them off outside!

Instead of masking tape, get images from Google earth. Print on cardstock. You'd be amazed how far a little color ink will go! And if you're careful with them, they will last a while.

We always use pre-made roads (and rivers) from Last Valley…

I uae latex roads from Miniature World Maker. Failing that, tape or felt is fine with me.

Masking tape. Infinitely flexible and cheap.

For roads I like the stuff offered by Battlefield Terrain Concepts. Great stuff and a great price. Every Nashcon I load up on it.

Asphalt roof shingles.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

I use homemade roads.

Take care

Andy

Roofing felt

Andrew Doyle's excellent terrained versions. I wish he was still with us.

Pat Condray's rubber roads. I wish he was still with us.

Felt sprayed with Rustoleum stone-texture paint.

Andrew Doyle of 3-D Terrain Contours (or something like that)? I bought quite a lot of fences and rivers from him.

My dirt roads are Battlefield Terrain Concepts, I'm thinking about getting some paved roads soon.

Brown foam sheets for dirt roads, black or dark grey for asphalt. But mostly I play ancients – no roads t all !

Baggage Train roads, rivers and streams.

I mostly use my old Geo-hex cloth roads and cobblestone roads I get from the model railroad companies. I will be a cold day in hell before I start using masking tape.

I made these roads with textured paper glued to foam.

Here is La Haye Sainte by Hovels in 28mm

I use the roads on my Geohex hexes.

I make my own out of pieces of thin utility carpeting. I also do river sections the same way. The nice thing about utility carpeting is that buying one chunk at a DIY store is enough that you can do tens of feet of roads and rivers.

Another advantage is that the thin carpeting is flexible and soft enough that it can be placed on gentle slopes and ridges and it will conform to them really naturally.

I paint the back side(vinyl side) of the carpet and then for the roads I add some static grass to complete the effect.

Here's the results of the technique:

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I have a good number of resin roads from Foxhole Terrain. They are nice pieces and the customer service is quite good.

Strips of cork, textured and painted with some light flocking. 15mm.