Robby,
The base is pine picture frame that stained, then coated with spray can polyeurathane I then covered the finished edges with blue painter's tape.
The cork for the street is 1mm thick sheet cork. I cut it into strips, cross-cut 1cm long pieces from those and attatched them to the base with Titebond wood glue. The Titebond glue is amazing. The easiest way for me to cut it was with scissors. It ripped real easy with a scalpel blade. For the side walk, i just aded a layer of the sheet cork under the pavers to create some elevation.
The missing pavers and the small crater were create by gauging out the wood with a high spee cuttter in my Dremel Tool. In the pics above, I have started to make a space for the storm sewer drain which I am gonna scratch build from styrene. The small crater will have a busted cast iron rain pipe made from a drinking straw, styrene, and bolts from a scrap kit sticking out of it as well. .
The builing's center is foam board and the bricks are cut from 5mm cork tiles that I found in the arts & crafts section of Walmart. Again, I cut the cork into strips (with a knife this time), cross-cut those, and attached with Woodland Scenics PVA. Used strips of styrene as spacers between the rows of bricks. These will be hidden by the "grout" later. The space between the brick's left and right, I just eyeballed.
A word about cuttting cork; Have plenty of spare knive blades! I don't know why but, the stuff really dulls blades out quickly.
Dan
