Monday, May 30, 2016

Layout Update Mondays: Pavement Markings

Masking for lane lines and stop bars.
One of the big tasks remaining for the model of Memorial Avenue was to complete the numerous pavement markings needed on the road surface.  There are a total of four lanes in this area with a double yellow center line and white dashed markings for the two travel lanes in each direction.  These were masked off and then hand painted in the appropriate color.  In addition, a set of railroad crossing pavement markings was added to each lane along with a stop bar in front of the railroad tracks.  The railroad crossing pavement marking was painted with the aid of a template which I created and is available here at Shapeways.  Everything came out fairly nice and the last step will be to weather the road surface and add some vehicles and barrels.

Painting the double yellow center line of Memorial Avenue.

The finished pavement markings.