This TTCombat Highway is the last major piece for my “Gotham City” that I have decided to complete for Dave Stones “Apocalypse Me” October challenge. My fellow P.I.G.S. are well aware that this has been “on the go” for over twelve months, so it is good to have an incentive to complete it. There will still be things like a car park, and railway carriages and the like, but this is the last major individual piece I need to do.

Highway slip road by two

As I said before the highway has been on the back burner for a long time with just the individual pieces glued together. I would just do a few minutes here and a few minutes there so I do not have a detailed photographic history of the project.

Highway turn on by two

After finishing the individual pieces I quickly realised they they would not work on a games table without major support so I decided to glue all the pieces together and then to glue them on a base. This has made them “wargaming friendly” (Code for Geoff proof)!

Highway straights by two

After gluing together, the the individual pieces were spray canned with a grey primer and then dry brushed with a commercial water based grey house paint. They were then glued together and mounted on a piece of wood particle board. I would normally have used mdf but this was all I had available.

The two story carpark that is another project.

The roads were then painted with wood glue and then covered with a layer of very fine sand. I used this technique for the asphalt roads on the other Gotham city bases and this worked out well. Sheets of sand paper is other another alternative, but more expensive. Sand is free when you live on an island!

When this had dried I shaked of the excess sand, and sprayed the sand with a very cheap matt varnish spray can to “fix” the sand.

The next process was to paint the “asphalt” a matt black. Again I used the same cheap matt black blackboard paint that I had used for the other roads.

The same process was then completed with the base underneath the raised highway as I planned to use this as the “homeless village” with shanty houses, tents and sleeping bags, underneath, but this is another project!

I painted the gaps in between the sand covering with a metal primer flat grey to give a more derelict look.

I am now coming to the stage where I have to actually start painting the project, rather than just spraying and splashing on paint with a 50mm brush willy-nilly (a quaint saying from the Old English word “nyllan” combining the word for no and the word will – another course at University that I have had very little use for!).

The finished project:

The start of the homeless village:

And now, what you have been waiting for – THE LAST STAND

With She-Hulk completed yesterday this is my second item for Dave Stone’s “Apocalypse Me” challenge! I will work on some zombies and the zombie hulk over the next week.