The level crossing is finally open to traffic, albeit without barriers. The bus in front of the station is an Ikarus 66, not 166 as I mistakenly say in the video.
Looks good Patrick. If you brush in some tyre marks on the road way with some light weathering powders it will give a convincing look of regular use. I remember some of the railway crossings growing up in Queensland used to keep the tyre companies in business. They weren't so much crossings but corrugated ramps with strategically placed potholes to make sure the struts in the front end bent and twisted. Your citizens do not have these concerns. Steven.
I made some kind of "sidewalks" for the rail bridges on my layout from 3 mm polystyrene, it doesn't look bad, but it wouldn't be very practical for figurines, with or without a transparent base, so some cardboard would be better - or other more solid material. So I made such sidewalks in the "town" from styrene plastic, paint them grey, kerbs with a pointy metal rod then painted white etc. I had the advantage, though, of straight street, so was much easier to make straight sidewalks, it would be more difficult to do circular such things. A hard cardboard I guess would be very good (I save washing powder empty boxes for such an use). Nice day, Patrick, cheers!
@@Cristake1974 thanks for the tips. I also keep all sorts of light cardboard boxes....too many of them in fact. I'll make a video showed the material I intend to use, which I have already employed for the pavement around the two historical buildings in Brunel's Station Square.
@@Imieitrenimodello yes, it does. I bought an assortment of second hand fences on Vinted. I'll add some sections around the sides of the level crossing once I install the barriers.
@@railway187 thanks, I'm very pleased with the result also because I've managed to use only recycled materials or material I already had in stock and that was just sitting around gathering dust. The only purchase I made was two tubes of white poster paint.
