This is an excellent topic, years ago there was a layout in MR mag that had an abandoned narrow gauge RR. Just enough modeled to show there was one. I was fascinated by the presentation and still remember it to this day. I hope you'll post your work when you start on it.
May be you could use a kind of filler( car industry or from "Revell" ..put a thin layer, almost a film, over the "bricks" let it dry and make it flat/smooth with very fine sandingpaper or even beter waterproofsandingpaper...give it a color with some deluted alkyde paint just like you do with watercolors/aquarel building up the intensity of colors...
Hmmm... all this talk of abandoned lines gves me an idea. Those of you who've seen pictures of layout know I have street running through my downtown to a couple of industries. It's a concrete strip in brick streets. I would be neat to have a abandoned, paved over spur to another business which now uses trucks. I'm trying to come up with an easy way to simulate this without tearing up part of the brick street for a concrete strip. If I just use paint, it won't look very good since it will look like concrete painted brick. I was thinking about something like electician's tape painted concrete. Do you all this would look good or is the tape too thick and then I'd have what looked like concrete piece of tape running down the street?
This is a picture of a portion of the current street trackage:
Jos, using some kind of putty might work if I get it thin enough and sraight enough so it looks like where the tracks ran.
B&S, I'm out of commision with a badly infected left hand and I have a hard enough time taking a decent picture when both hands are working.
I'd like to model a spur running off to the right down Central Avenue that would have served a warehouse down there but it's no longer in use. What I envision is the same type of concrete strip in the middle of the street but with the tracks paved over with asphalt. I'm just trying to figure out a way to do this without tearing up the existing brick steet but still make it look like an old street running spur.
Take care of that most important modeler's tool ! Now if I understand you collectly, there would have been a diamond at that intersection. A discoloration of concrete would show where the newer concrete was filled in where the rails used to be. That would take care of the diamond. Now the street would have to show that concrete strip with the rail gaps filled in just as it would have been at the diamond. Am I right so far ?
