Looks great It almost fooled

Looks great It almost fooled my friend who says it is fake to everything.

Great Work!

Congratulations on the fine modeling.

I'm some street work myself.

How did you do the letters for the word "STOP" painted on the street? A stencil?

Curious, cuz that's a challenge I'm about to tackle.

EDIT: Oh, I see in your blog link in your text that you used a laser cut stencil. Nice! Who is the supplier?

thanks!

Rich

Stencil

I made the stencil for this project, but I will put them for sale on my website soon.

Bernard Kempinski

Huh?

I didn't know they have tractor trailers and concrete roads in the Civil War?

Horace Fithers

Love the cracks

Don't often see very convincing scale cracks and patches in roads.  This looks fantastic!

STOP!

I always find that the most obvious "tell" that a scene is a model is the text on the roads. Too often modelers simply use a regular font of some sort.

Text and graphics printed on highway surfaces are almost always viewed by drivers at an extremely oblique angle. To compensate for this highway departments almost always stretch out thier lettering from top to bottom.

Just like Bernie did in his picture!

Looks great!

That looks good!

That is a very good looking scene, enough detail to keep it interesting but not so much that it looks forced or overexaggerated.  

Very convincing roadwork!!

Very convincing roadwork!! Nice job Bernard.

Very nice!

That looks terrific Bernard!  The road is pretty much perfect in my view, and I love the weathering on the semi and boxcars.  Well done!

Still a work in progress

This is still a work in progress, but the feedback is encouraging. The techniques I am using will be covered in my next book due in early 2017.

Bernard Kempinski 

"This is still a work in

Looks good to me. Additions I could see might be stop signs and other sign posts/paddle markers perhaps, some road side trash, underground services paint( showing where utilities exist for guidance of contractors who need to dig up an area) ,aerial survey crosses/centerline stations perhaps ,oil drips and other spillage, etc. Unless they are new roads are not usually very clean....DaveB

Something that would also be

Something that would also be interesting relating to the above with marking lines and such would be the orange spray paint and flags, not sure if you could model the flags but the paint could still be done.

Manholes and drains

I love how you countersunk the manhole covers and drains whereas the all knowing Lance Mindheim would just use a photograph of such and glue them to the road.

Great work! 

Re: Looks great it almost fooled...

@ trainmaster247 

Looks great it almost fooled my friend who says it is fake to everything.

Sorry, what do you mean? 

Who likes to say all scenes

Who likes to say all scenes in model railroad do are fake (usually the grass) but the picture fooled him.

Spooky drains....

Looking into the drain grating and seeing a black emptiness underneath was a surprisingly realistic and spooky touch, like a unexpected reward for the inquisitive viewer.

Beautiful - been there - seen that

I have been in the PoLA area often on both sides of the channel and this is very typical. One thing I would mention is that (almost) always a street Stop not only is painted on the pavement but also includes the red octagonal stop sign. That is typical of the SoCal area.

Stop sign in one direction only

There is no stop sign in the direction that I modeled, though I could add one to the foreground if I have room. 

This photo shows the intersection I am modeling.