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For a "typical" town in Normandy, how would the streets have been paved? Black asphalt? Concrete? Cobblestones? Want to make some village bases and just don't want to do a paving type that was incredibly rare...

If you did cobblestone how would you do it - what materials would you use?

I'm not sure what the scale is but you could try this

http://www.greenstuffworld.com/en/textu ... ement.html

If the link isn't allowed google green stuff world, then look under textured rolling pins and find rolling pin pavement. You could use sculpey clay or green stuff and roll it out, cut to fit whatever space you need.

On second thought I see the block size is 4mm x 4mm which would make them almost 4ft in scale. Probably not the best choice after all.

You could try checking out some model railroad supplie sites where I know they carry plastic patterned sheets. Some sheets are brick, fieldstone, maybe even cobblestone. I know I've used a small piece of I think it was fieldstone plastic patterned sheet to simulate cobblestone roads on a small diorama I made a few years ago. You could try n scale or better yet z scale. Hope this helps.

I found some pictures I posted back in this forum here is the link. My pictures are about half way down on page 2
http://www.ghqmodels.com/forum/viewtopi ... ght=soviet
There's 4 pictures about Soviet and us armor. You can make out the road texture in a couple of those. I'm pretty sure I used fieldstone plastic or styrene sheets...

If streets were usually cobbles I will print them on cardstock. They would be smooth "in scale" anyway. If asphalt I will use paint.

Check out Toshach Miniatures road pack. they sell printable road templates in 1/285 scale roadway patterns in paved, cobble, & dirt. They include straight, intersections and curves. And what wasnt provided for my needs I was able to easily make using their files and power point as a graphics editing program.

its worth a look anyway.

regards

Yup. I won those and a whole host of others!