Tutorial! Post-apocalyptic roads!
Ahoy hoy! I’ve been doing some cool terrain with a post apocalypse theme recently and realised I need some cool roads to go with the buildings I’ve bought from TTCombat - I have seen that folks have made roads from cork floor tiles and they look awesome, but unfortunately I haven’t found any good tutorials for making them myself. So I decided it’s time to make a tutorial! Here’s Part 1: Construction!
Ingredients you will need:
* cork floor tiles (I got mine from Wickes nine 12" x 12" tiles for £9.99)
You start with the tiles as they are. The ones I have are rough cork on one side and the other is smooth and treated with some sort of varnish. I will be using the rough surface for the top, as when painted it has a cool asphalt-ey texture.
I decided my basic roads would be straight pieces 12" long and 4" wide. There will be some other shapes (shorter straights, curves, T-junctions etc too). So I cut a few tiles into pieces of 12 x 4 inches:
So that’s a good three foot of road right there, but it’s looking a bit clean and tidy for me. So next, add a bit of a chamfer onto the long edges…
And then it’s time to tear into the cork and add some damage! Avoid damaging the short edges as it’ll look weird having a damaged bit butted up against an undamaged bit when you lay the road out. Just tear a few chunks from the long edges:
This looks good but a bit of extra work is worth it! Just chop into the torn bits with your hobby knife, add a bit of a chamfer to them and just try to make them look as uneven as possible!
And hey presto, some nice damage where the road surface has crumbled away!
The last step in part 1 is to give them a decent primer coat of black. I use Halfords matt black and give the road sections a couple of things coats, waiting for it to dry properly between coats. Make sure you get into all the damaged bits!
Here’s a few examples of the roads I’ve made so far! The pot-holes in the middle of the roads were done by cutting a hole with the hobby knife and then tearing around it. Plus here are some smaller road pieces with very heavy damage at the end, which I’ll mostly be using as ‘dead-ends.’
These are all ready for painting, which I’ll be showing in my next post.
Hope you all like the roads, and found this post helpful! 🙂
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