- Member since
April 2004
- From: Boston MA
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Posted by vespa boy
on Wednesday, November 7, 2007 9:04 AM
 IanIsBored2000 wrote: | | Vespa, I can't get enough of thes street dios. Sorry if it's already been asked, but how do you make the pavement texture, and the cracks? Is the texture just some sort of sand or small pebbles glued on? Last, how do you get the tiny specks of color in the pavement? You seem to get every last detail covered. |
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The asphalt is made using silicon carbide glued in place using white glue and rollered. I add a little bit of fine model railroad ballast to give the added colour to the gravel aggregate. I make thin sections of this when I want to make a crack, put it in the freezer and then it snaps and I can glue it in place on the base. The texture on the concrete pavers is made by casting cardboard that has a slight texture, then I use that mould to cast individual pavers that get glued in place. I make the underlying base a little uneven where I want a crack and after the glue is dry, I apply some pressure and it cracks, just like the real thing. And then a lot of it is just using washes from oil paints, drybrushing and graphite pwder. I hope that helps.
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