STEP 7: PAVING ROADS AND CITIES:
320 grit sandpaper has been stuck down to provide 'pavement' for the city
area, again using purple gluestick. My initial intention was to cover this
with a grid of little cubes of white styrene, but I didn't have time to
before Bay Area Games Day. The bridge here is an N-guage railroad bridge
which has been carefully truncated (it was originally about an inch
longer) and the ramps supporting it are pretty obvious at this angle. At
the con, Mark Biggar came up with the brilliant field expedient of putting
the little foam cubes from the OGRE miniatures video cases onto the
'pavement' as buildings, and this worked really well. I am considering
going with this or something similar instead of doing all of the gridding
I was thinking about previously.
The lower right quarter of the board. River, roads, bridge, cities. It's
difficult to see from this angle, but I used shavings of blue-foam to
build up the road-bed where it crossed the contours of hills, so the road
isn't canted at a weird angle anywhere. Foamcore is also good for this,
peel the sheet of paper off the bottom surface, then slope it with a
breakaway blade or hot foam cutter to match the contour of the ground
surface the roadway must cover, and trim away excess after gluing the road
down on top of it.
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