I making a new diio and i desperately need sidewalk help. how would i just make a standard sidewalk.THANK YOU

ummm theres a brand of sheet steyrene called evergreen and they make sheets of white plastic with petterns engraved on them, like corrugates iron, roofing, sidine and sidewalk i believe...or else its just large tiles. look up their website or someting,.
i'm sure u can get that at your local hobby shop, or wherever you buy your supplies

good luck!

Matt
check out the Gotcha covered feature I mentioned also the Gerdas Distraction. Both sidwalk sections in them.
Cork or foam board or pieces of dry wall all can be used to make sidewalks.
There are lots of AM product that you can buy if you want a quick way to it.
You can get cork sheets rolled at Target or Wallmark or Michaels

Matt, one more idea to kick aroud. pour a plaster slab of the desired thickness, cut to length and width. scribe in curb and stone or concrete patterns,glue down and paint. sidewalk done and one of a kind.

I use a piece of foam board ( these are 5mm thick) cut to the shape on the base, some balsa wood strip can be used to create the kerb stone and cork cut into squares can be used to create the paving slabs.

simple, cheap and effective i will try and post a couple of pictures later so you can see the effect

HTH

Keith

A lot of model railroaders use the same method concrete guys do. Make your route with strips of plastic, use hydrocal and pour into the route, smooth, cut expansion joints, let dry and remove the side-strips, paint and, Voila! Sidewalk.

Cuhail

If it's a finish you are looking for, Woodland Scenics makes concrete and asphalt finish products that are very realistic looking when dry, durable, easy to apply, and not too costly. The concrete is called Road System Top Coat Concrete, p/n 1454 and the asphalt is Road System Top Coat Asphalt, p/n ST1453.

Both come in 4 oz bottles, are water soluable and non-toxic. I first used it on a garage diorama that was 24" X 18" on a sheet of styrene for the floor. It took 3 coats to completely cover the red primer I prepared the material with. (Putting it on directly over the plastic didn't cover well and fisheyes and streaks appeared. It covered the primed surface wonderfully.) I used a sponge type brush to apply it. When it dried it looked very realistic in both color and texture. After screwing up my first attempt, I used 3 coats for the second effort to get a nice, uniform coating. In all, I had used about 3/4 of the bottle. I also added side walks which were squares of plastic I cut out scaled to the correct size. I laid them on my workbench and covered them with a piece of 220 grit sand paper, laid a hard rubber mallet on top, and then whacked the mallet with a heavy hammer several times. It transferred enough of the grit from the paper into the plastic to give a bit of texture. I tried it with finer paper, but after priming and using the top coat it filled in the detail. Once done, it looked quite good. I used the asphalt for adding an inch or so of parking lot along the front of the building and I couldn't have been happier with the end result.