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Easy Highway Striping ...
paint the road in Oakhill with a single, solid, center stripe. Five scale inches is a good width for my stripes – in HO scale that works out to .057”. I set a pair of dial calipers to this distance.
by Charlie Comstock
I use an Iwata Eclipse double-action gravity feed airbrush to paint stripes but a paint brush can be used in a pinch. To get my stripes to have clean edges I cut blue painters tape into strips about 1/4” wide (figure 2). I carefully stuck the tape to the road surface using a dial-caliper to
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f you are modeling a paved road chances are you’ll need to be painting stripes on it. I model the early ‘50s in the Oregon Cascades where many roads weren’t paved (except with gravel). Here’s how I painted the center stripe on a road in Oakhill that is paved.
Figure 1: The finished road with stripe and weathering. Figure 2: Using a NEW blade and straight-edge to make 1/4” masking tape. Figure 3: Masking the stripe. Figure 4: Double checking the stripe width. Figure 5: My paint color. Figure 6: Using my double-action airbrush to paint the stripes.
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In modern times roads are striped down the middle, along the edges, or even to create a left turn lane in the center of a highway. Paint colors are white and yellow. Reflectors are used to make the striping more visible at night. In older times stripes were often yellow and were much simpler. I elected to Figure 1 Page 58 • Issue 10 • Nov/Dec 2010 • The Scenery Scene - Easy Highway Striping, page 1
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