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Thursday, April 23, 2020 Shelton-Mason County Journal — Page A—1 9 107 The masking tape worked great. Once the glue Why Sand? It‘fills the gaps on the edges of the Here, the sand is sprinkled along the glue line, is dry, carefully pull it off. It’s only cardboard curbs, looks great, and strengthens the road. with the road piece tipped. Sand that does not underneath, so don't worry too much about Run glue along both sides of all of your curbs, stick will fall right back to the work area. ripping some of the tOp layer off, because you then add sprinkle or dump sand onto the wet will be painting it later anyway. glue. Tip the rest back into your work area and keep going. This technique is called flocking. This is a great photo of how sand and glue will Here, we are getting the basecoats of paint Now you can see why we left that gap on the finish the sides of the curb lines The tough part underway. Use acrylic paint, a nice big brush. outside of the curbs. A nice dark green basecoat is waiting for the glue to dry! 3 Have water and a paper towel handy. Black is really pops. You can always add more detail and only needed for the road itself, and you've got touch things up later. ready-made borders on the sides with those wonderful curbs. I like to have everything ready at this point so I can just go and go with the paint. / Concrete is grey (or you can spell it gray) so it's fine if basecoat is a bit sloppy. This second After the black paint is dry, with 2 pieces of that's what I did here. You could add yellow or a . coat is your chance to go back and fix all of masking tape, leave an even,.narrow strip down red areas, especially on the main street curbs. Do those spots. You know where they are. It is the middle of the highway pieces. Press the s that later. This is a base coat, so if the yellow or worth the time. . tape down a bit to keep the paint from getting ‘ red does not cover well or chips - it will look like underneath it. concrete underneath! So altogether we now have: 2 Highway pieces 2 Main street pieces 2 Residential road pieces 4 Intersection pieces 1 Roundabout It looks nice, and you know how to touch up, replace, or add as many. pieces as you want! You can also protect it from wear and tear with 2 coats of a clear matt finish spray paint on both sides. Along with the cardboard buildings we created last week, this is a great start for a "Wot Heels" or other scale-model figures. The stripes are that one bit of white. Try to paint evenly and not too heavy. Use a couple of thinner coats rather than one heavy one, before you pull the masking tape off. 20. White paint touchup. Use black paint to What would you like to see in touch up any areas where the masking tape did the next Crafty Time? I'm thinking not cover, or you did not want white paint. A trees would be a good addition. flat brush works great for this, and the black can Email me at dave@masoncounty.com even add a touch of realistic road wear and tear with your comments, project photos and if some of it goes over the stripes. suggestions. Until then, have fun!