Here we go, image dump
This is what happened when I applied Mr. Surfacer to the light blue foam. Maybe someone can ID this stuff and tell me why it reacted and not the more dense dark blue stuff for the side walks. I was able to salvage the sidewalks for the redux..
Not a bad effect if I could control it better, washed out mortar anyone?
Thanks to my lovely Bride and assistant for her help with photography
Mixed up some drywall patch stuff and slopped it over the blueboard base. Guess I could have put it directly on the wood but I din't.
Used my hand to smooth out the drywall gunk as you can see in this action shot!
I cut out the manhole cover from the Miniart street set I had and embedded in the drywalk gunk.
Another action shot of placing the salvaged sidewalk and Well.
More covering and smoothing keeping my hand moist. hindsight, I could have used a sponge to get some texture on there.
used a scrap piece of laminate to flatten out the drywall gunk
Thinking of how some of my own hometown mainstreet has some of the old pavers visible, I again cut from the Miniart base and embedded it in the drywall stuff.
Trying to overlap the pavement and pavers.
A little sculpting in the gutters...
A wet brush washes away the drywall junk from the manhole cover and pavers I want exposed. Keeping this stuff moist gives me time to keep working it, once it drys out it's done. After it dried some I took some low grit count sandpaper and tried to press it into the drywall stuff to give it texture, didn't work as well as I thought. I'll get the texture I want with Mr. Surfacer.
What I really needed was a 1:35 scale Paving Machine!
And this is what I intend to do..again..
Hopefully I'll be painting tomorrow.