I’ve completed around 99% of the ground cover for the first 80″ long piece, leaving out the area where the parking lot and road will go.

It’s turning out a lot better than I imagined it would. I picked up some Evergreen Scale Models 0.020″ Thick sheet styrene which comes with 3 sheets of 6″x12″.

This is extremely easy to cut with a sharp Xacto blade. Use a straight edge otherwise it’s very likely you will get an undesired cut.

I used regular loose leaf paper to get a general thought of what shapes I would need to cut the styrene in order to fill in the desired spaces. In hindsight it would have been better to use a ruler to measure but I could not locate mine at the time. Here are the pieces cut out and being test fit. On to paint after this.

Once the styrene is painted and glued in place I plan to use putty in order to make it a realistic looking grade crossing. We will cross that bridge when we come to it.

I used Polly Scale CP Gray to pain the road pieces. I will go back over them with Matte clear coat after they have dried.

You don’t have to use model paint, but I chose to. You can easily go with a can of gray primer for a few bucks.

The next step is gluing the road in and filling in the ground cover gaps after that. It may be a while before I am able to update again as I have to go to a funeral next weekend but I will try to get some work done next week after I get home from work.