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Good day,

I'm looking for ideas on how to make 10mm paved roads for WWII Europe or alternatively purchase. Probably most secondary roads did not have lines on them. Cobble roads would only be in towns not between towns.

I am currently testing 2mm foam sheets with Liquitex brand Ceramic Stucco.

Schlesien,

I have no photos that give clear impressions of what types of road existed 'between towns' in different European war zones between 1939 and 1945.

So home made ones would need to begin with a goal in mind.

Cobbles? Paved? - various wallpapers with different texture effects, cut to length and width required and stuck to mdf, or plastic card etc may give you a surface that could be coloured to a desired effect?

Rutted roads may be a winter / spring sight? So corregated cardboard may give a basis attached to base material and painted either for snow or mud?

I guess many secondary roads would simply be compressed earth, possibly with wheeled sections clear of vegetation while central spine may have grasses from lack of wheel contact? So could use sand glued straight over base material of card, mdf or plasticard? If central spine wanted could simply add strip of raised ground first from ready mixed filler let it dry then sand all using pva coating and sand sprinkled over then paint to desired earth colour (which must vary from region to region) and add static grass to central spine and possibly edges of road.

Carl

eric

try roofing tar paper cut into strips, spray paint black. work great. you can pick up a giant roll at home depot for about 24.00. you'll have enough roads to pave a scale america.