Mosslanda: Defiance - Road surfacing…

Well that turned out better than I hoped - not that this method ever really disappoints - just you’re not always sure if what will happen - and with that we have a road surface…The 1mm Daler mount board was small enough in area not to worry about sealing (to slow the drying if the road paint and improve adherence if the talc) but I did paint the edges and the rails in a Humbrol 62/33 mix before hand - I didn’t want any white or shiny bits afterwards!The technique from one of Gordon Gravett’s books is rather magical. Paint the road in gloss paint and liberally dose the lot with talc… that’s it. You can tamp the talc after which changes the appeaece, you can mix in other shades whilst painting to suggest patched repairs or different surfaces - but the basic process never changes and always delivers.In this case I’d used a pencil to sketch out where a patch had been made and a concrete section I wanted to represent and mixed in some 72 and 28 for this variation. However, once dry and…

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