Sorry if this question may have been asked here before; I don’t frequent this particular forum as much as others.
Where does one purchase aircraft tarmac to fashion 1/48 bases? If you make your own, how do you go about it?
Thanks for all the help.[:)]
Gip Winecoff
This is what I use:
http://www.squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=VE1632
Looks pretty good to me. Other people use different techniques; it’s been discussed before, but it never hurts to ask again. [:D]
John,
Thanks for the link!
Gip
Use wet’n’dry paper and spray with a concrete colour…simple to do and somewhat cheeper !!
AJ
I use a sheet of styrene, and scribe in the expansion panels. Then airbrush a mixture of gray and black to make it look like concrete, and accentuate the panels with black, being a bit sloppy so it looks like the asphault filler (at least I think it’s asphault, maybe somebody else out there knows what the black stuff is [:)]). Add some grime with pastel colors, and the occasional oil stain and you’re done. I did the tarmac in the diorama below using this technique.
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AJ, thanks for the advice. Yes, it is quite a bit cheaper!!
Ponch, thanks for the idea and the great visual aid to boot! What a great looking diorama!
Gip Winecoff
i cut sheets of balsa wood (the ones that are about 3"x1/8") into perfect squares, glue them down onto your base, then spray on some of the “stone” finish spray paint, then sand it down so it isn’t so rough. After that i use putty to fill in the cracks and then paint it black (it’s OK if a little runs over the edges–it looks like Tar) After that, i just airbrush a mix of black and some brownish colors onto the cracks to make it look a little more weathered.
Example: 
Note: I made my cracks too big–don’t leave that much space in-between 