Side walks for your city streets?

This topic was covered recently....i use paint stir sticks, scribe them each inch with a ballpoint pen, and paint them a concrete color....EZ

I use 1/8" sheets of wood from big box stores, scribe the wood and spray paint it the color of new or aged concrete. I've also painted the same boards and used a pencil or pen to add lines and cracks. 

OGR sells bundles of sidewalks, and I use them and like them very much. I trim the occasional unwanted bit off; then, I paint them concrete color; let them dry well, and then weather them according to the scene.

They are sturdy and do not warp,even lending themselves well to having an edge filed-down to allow for modeling a driveway entrance, or to being reduced in length by hacksawing through them to achieve a desired abbreviated custom-length (observable in the fire-station scene just above, here, and in "The Quilting Circle" more rural vignette, above.

FrankM, Layout Refinements

Frank M...those photos are great!!  Amazing work.....John A

Frank

What are the origins of these buildings?  Can't seem to find them on your website.  You can e-mail me a reply if you wish

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Moonson posted:

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 Nice modeling, by the way!

My walks are also the base for buildings, some panels are 10” deep. ¼ Lauan covered with spackle. Lines & cracks are penciled in and painted FolkArt LINEN color for concrete. Run your finger over the pencil markings to highlight a stone textured concrete surface from the spackle.

Always think backwards, walks or terrain actually define the streets!

OGR's Ameri-Towne series also includes "Stone Wall" pieces embossed with a random stone design. These pieces could be used as laid stone sidewalk segments placed in an older section of town to provide a Colonial or Victorian ambiance or in a new upscale subdivision with laid stone sidewalks. Paint the "sidewalks" a flagstone color and accent the cracks with a wash of diluted black paint wiped away from the raised stone surfaces. Presto!

Mike

John Sethian posted:

Frank

What are the origins of these buildings?  Can't seem to find them on your website.  You can e-mail me a reply if you wish

Thanks

Moonson posted: (See photos above)

 Nice modeling, by the way!

Hi John, Thanks for visiting my website (not updated for some time, however). My website is not intended as a store. Nothing seen there is available for purchase, having long been spoken for. What one sees there are examples of what I have done for sale @ TCA Meets @York, PA, as well as for clients privately . Also, I do not repeat a single vignette, ever. Everything is a one-time-only item and were available solely on a first-come-first-served basis, all along,  since my inception of Layout Refinements in 2005.

I will share with you my source, from several years ago, for the fronts for those brownstone townhouses, which was Valley Model Trains website; the rest of the buildings were cobbled from a wide variety of sources, as were the many details used to complete the edifices as scenes.

FrankM.

I used hardboard with a pencil line at regular intervals to make different slabs.  The hardboard is the base for each block of buildings.

"OGR sells bundles of sidewalks" - where or how can I order the sidewalks? 

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Martin Dougherty posted:

"OGR sells bundles of sidewalks" - where or how can I order the sidewalks? 

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I used to call their office in OHIO directly to place my orders, from time to time. If I wanted to buy more, nowadays, that is what I would try first.

FrankM

Moonson posted:

Martin Dougherty posted:

"OGR sells bundles of sidewalks" - where or how can I order the sidewalks? 

Thanks

I used to call their office in OHIO directly to place my orders, from time to time. If I wanted to buy more, nowadays, that is what I would try first.

FrankM

OR.....you can go to our online store.....either way we appreciate your business!

Alan

I was at Boscov's Dept. store in Shamokin Dam, PA and discovered some LEMAX park sidewalks in boxes. Bought 2 boxes... Not bad, can be cut and assembled in many combinations.

We make 2 types of sidewalks a single wide as well as a double wide in resin very detailed, here is a link:

lhttp://www.scalecitydesigns.com/Sidewalks_c_17.html

Scale City Designs posted:

We make 2 types of sidewalks a single wide as well as a double wide in resin very detailed, here is a link:

lhttp://www.scalecitydesigns.com/Sidewalks_c_17.html

Great looking website. I marked it for a return visit. I like the sidewalk details; but even better are the custom station and tower signs.