I finally got enough done that I was willing to share what I have to this point. I created a road and garage area with thinset mortar after seeing some discussion about this on a train board. I really couldn't be happier with the results. I'll say it was fairly easy to do and it was but it took about 2 1/2 hours to complete the area in the linked pics. It did not seem like it took that long. I was a bit surprised when I came upstairs and it was 1:30 AM!

http://s255.photobucket.com/albums/hh130/rm_warlock/?action=view&current=trackroad001.jpg

http://s255.photobucket.com/albums/hh130/rm_warlock/?action=view&current=trackroad004.jpg

That looks great!:thumbsup:

That does a good job of tying it all together. Looks great

:thumbsup: Excellent use of non-standard materials too. I have always said that a local home center can provide tons of budget minded track building and scenery materials if you look hard enough. The thinset should hold up real well too ( I was a tile setter/mason for 10 years ). nd

I had never worked with anything like that before so I had a raised eyebrow after it was completely set. It's like concrete!! I had a few ridges I wanted to smooth out and it absolutely ate the 150 grit I had laying around! LOL

Very nice, LR......you've got me thinking now :thumbsup:

Oh yeah, looking real good! Whatta ya' know, that stuff really works and looks natural. Nice clean and crisp lines. I really like how you did the inner crash walls and structures. Nice car collection too. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Nice job on the concrete. But tell us about your garages.

:thumbsup::thumbsup: rr

Thanks everyone for the kind comments. I was really happy regarding how it dried to a fairly realistic pavement look. It's not perfect but I'm not a "go for ultra-realism" kind of guy. I just want it to look good.

The garages are actually two truck terminal building kits from Pikestuff. I enlarged the door openings and tried spacing them appropriately. I recently got some Plastruct angle pieces to cut and glue into place around the door openings to give the doors a more finished look. I'm still debating whether or not to give the garage floors the IMS treatment and put down the checkered flag motif. Yesterday I finally got around to painting gray the styrene pieces on which they will sit.

Lots more planned but I'm going to give the detailing/scenery thing a slight rest and run some cars. Those Mega G Champ cars calling my name.

Very nice. What did you use for the grass. Some of the best looking grass ive seen.

The pictures probably make the grass look better than it really does. It's simply the grass mats you can buy in rolls. I think it was made by Life-Like. If I had to do it again, I would go with the velour they make and add ground covering as needed and whatnot.

Nicely done:thumbsup:, all it needs now is some activity.