which highway fits inside o36?

anyone have some thoughts to offer?  thanks

Are you looking for highway pieces with rails on which to run motorized highway vehicles, or just highway pieces without rails?

If it’s the former, the readily-available option would be the Williams by Bachmann E-Z streets, the replacement for the K-Line/Lionel Superstreets.  Even the wider E-Z streets curves would easily fit inside an O36 FasTrack curve.  But although they fit, they are probably too small as they would leave too much space between the loops.  A full circle of E-Z Streets D-21 curves measures 21½” outside edge to outside edge.  The inside diameter (inside edge to inside edge) of O36 FasTrack is 34 3/8”

Re roadway pieces without rails, it looks like Forum sponsor Scenery Sheets sells them.

HTH,

Bill 

Good question.  I was thinking of flat material to be scenery underneath 1/43 vehicles.  Thanks

Craft stores have black and grey foam sheets. Not sure of the exact size, but I think it is 12" x 12" squares or maybe a little larger. You can lay pinstripes or paint pens to mark roadway. I'm going to Hobby Lobby later and I'll check exact size and shape.

Bob

The foam board comes in 22 x 36 inch pieces (I'm pretty sure).

I do agree you are better off making your own using foam board or particle board.  I prefer foam board as you can place sewers and man-hole covers pretty easily.  You can draw your own lines with a colored pencil or there's a vendor on ebay which sells peel and stick lines.   Just google "how to make roads for model trains" and you'll come up with many articles and You Tube videos.

--Greg

Thanks.  I was wondering if there is a high quality rolled product.  I will consider making my own, but am open to an off the shelf product as well.

The foam boards at Hobby Lobby are 30" by 20".  I'm using them for retaining walls.

Bill

You could fit one of these inside that:

Harbor Freight sells rolls of black shelf or tool box liner that could be used for roads. I am not sure about adding white/yellow road lines to it though. Other materials include roofing tar paper, roofing shingles/rolls, joint compound, masonite, MDF, foam board, or paint/texture paint on the plywood table top. There must be dozens of other things folks have used.

Paul Goodness

The peel and stick material is all straight. The curve would require cutting slits along the edges to permit the curving. Then patching those.

Scenic express highways

Woodland Scenics system uses edge tape to create the road area, which is then filled with a plaster type road. They have nice dry transfer roadmarkings.

Many I have seen here use mdf cut to shape then color, weather and stripe.

I think you are out of luck for a plug'n'play product. Roads are like mountains, it's your own artwork with several ways to achieve the result.

Here is the EZ-Streets inside of a FasTrack 036 half-circle. When one considers the time and materials cost to model a road, this product will look good and you can run stuff on it. Thanks to Mixy for including this library in the 9.30 release of SCARM.

I second the foam board idea. Several local dollar stores near me sell them, 24' x 36"/48", in every color imaginable for under $2.00 (not $1.00 as the dollar store would imply) about half the price of the local crafts stores. As for striping, auto parts stores like Advance Auto Parts sell auto pin striping tape in white and yellow that you can use for the road lines.

Mike