How to Make a Cobblestone Path

Hello and welcome to a model railroad Academy video. In this video, we will model a kind of park city park path pathway. So it, you know, you can put gravel on your path or asphalt which is maybe not so exciting in this video we're going for a cobblestone pathway. This is a separate corner module which I will be building for my model railroad. It will host a park and in this pork, it will be a pathway. It's a kind of cobblestone pathway, but with cuff stones, the foundation which will fall hold up this pathway is made from styrofoam. I glue the styrofoam foundation in place using PVA glue or Elmer multipurpose may work as well. On top of that, I glue the pathway. The pathway has been cut so the pathway is more narrow the further up you get on the Hill that way we will get some forced perspective into the scene as well. I use a wrinkled newspaper as a spacer to hold up the ground surface. The base in the ground layer is a bath tissue or household paper. I mix PVA glue or Elmo multipurpose glue with water. The mix of glue and water is about 50 50. I start by fixing the edges of the bath tissue using this glue water mix. Then I continue to add sheets of paper until I cover the entire park. Then wet on the entire surface of both tissue with this glue water mix, leave it to dry overnight and it will get really hard on this hard surface it's easy to add a layer of gypsum or paris plastic trim away the gypsum from the pathway that then paint the ground next to the pathway in Brown, the surface of the cobblestone pathway is made from clay. This is an air hardening clay which means it cures in room temperature and does not need to be oven heated shape the clay to a worm and then flatten it using a roller pin or in this case, I'm just using a can of paint trim the edges straight using a steel scale and a knife apply a thin layer of PVA glue or Elmer multipurpose over the pathway and then position the strip of clay onto the pathway. The surface pattern will be engraved using a roller. This roller has item number H 95 31 and is supplied from model bond union.DE I have also found similar tools in sets for cake decorations. It can also be 3D printed with a pattern in place. I add glue on the edges of the pathway and then sprinkle on Woodlands and the medium buff. Leave the clay to dry overnight. We will now color the pathway with wash. This wash contains from burnt umber and black plus a lot of water. I apply this wash quite richly over the pathway using a paintbrush again leave this to dry now properly for a few hours. Once dry, we will apply a layer of white. This white paint will be dry brushed on to the just the top surface of the cobblestones. Static grass is applied in between the rows of stone to give her aged impression. For this I use a 2.5 millimeter tall meadow grass spring. I hope you liked this video about how to model cobblestone pathways. If you did, please level up and gain access to the premium content here on a model railroad Academy, see you in there.