Some Roadwork

Did a little work on the layout this week, making repairs on the South Industrial roadway.  You can see how it's become rather scraped up over time, mostly from cleaning the rails, which can scrape off the paint and leave the raw plaster and plastic exposed.The "before" picture of the way the roadway appeared 

I never really liked the way that dark section of the road looked, so I started there. It's a piece of styrene, so I popped it out and filled the opening with AK Interactive "Concrete".

I've got the "Asphalt" too, but haven't tried it out yet.

This picture's a little blurry (sorry) but I've lifted out that piece of styrene, and this is the area to be filled with the Concrete.

Masked the area around it, and filled the space in with the AK Concrete.  It was quite runny, and the space was of course fairly deep, so I gave it a full 24 hours to dry.

Well, cutting a long story short, 24 hours was nowhere near enough time for it to dry. So 2 days later it was dry, but had sagged down a bit and formed a few cracks as well.  This picture is better, one small crack has formed though, and I might just live with it like that.

Here's the area as it stands now.  I've painted most of the sections to cover over the white plaster.  Still further to go, but that's what I've gotten accomplished on this so far.

I might try out some of that AK Asphalt product in the area too.

This is a view of what I'd kind of like the roadway to look like.  I don't know where this photo was taken or who the photographer was.

That's about it for this time.  Have a good week.