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Originally Posted by Hagen

Hi Dave

Italeri is putting out some pretty good buildings and building ruins in 1/72, the only paper buildings I have are from the time I dabbled in 6mm wargaming. Pine trees I make from old artificial Christmas trees and deciduous trees I make from wire and clump foliage from Woodland Scenics.


I would like to find a way to make convincing roads and small streams. If you have any suggestions on 'How-To' make these up with materials I can find around the house I'ld appreciate it.

Thanks

Roads and streams. Usually best on stock card or hard type card of some sort. For roads - light grey paint as a base and sprinkle on sifted gravel. It looks really good in the smaller scales.

For creeks or rivers, same base type with a brown paint for the water covered with a gloss varnish for a bit of depth. Use some paper mache or scrunched alfoil to make the banks and paint / flock them as needed. Shapes are easy to make with the card - crossroads - T roads etc. Lengths of each are usually best at 6 to 8 inches but a couple of longer straight bits on thinner backing for flexibility are good when you need to go up a hill or similar.