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Base Board
Either spray a dark brown or dab paint on with a fine grained sponge.
This eliminates tell-tale brush strokes, and if the paint is thick, the sponge will leave a slightly textured soil effect.
You could scatter some similar coloured sand on the wet paint to enhance the effect.
Dirt Roads
Lay a bed of aquadhere where you want the tracks to be.
Scatter a heavy load of sand over the glue.
Run a HO car over sand to produce wheel ruts/ tyre tracks.
Allow glue to dry and brush off residual sand.
Between the tyre tracks add a little green scatter to simulate weeds.
Roadways
Mask the road edges.
Choose a water based paint that simulates the colour of concrete or bitumen.
Dab paint onto road way with a fine grained sponge. This eliminates tell-tale brush strokes. Alternative is to airbrush.
For curves, make a template from fine card. Use a compass to define the inner and outer circumferences.
Grasses and shrubs
A combination of colour and texture is important.
Dyed saw dust, coarse turf, dyed moss/lichen are effective.
Consider where water runoff would occur and make the grass and shrubs greener there eg the verge of a road, the dip of a valley.
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