Road markings

Adding road markings is a nice simple job. Armed with a ScaleModelScenery stencil set, I splodged Humbrol 147 though using a sponge. 

For some of the stencils, it's worth placing masking tape over the adjacent holes to ensure paint only goes through the ones you want, but otherwise, the task is easy. Using paint looks better than self-adhesive tape as it becomes part of the road and simulating wear just means putting less 147 down. 

Exactly what the road markings should be is a little tougher to work out. Somewhere I have a 1973 RAC book which I'm sure would help if I could find it. However, even that assumes the markings were up-to date. 

Photos seem to show only a single line down the middle of the road despite there being four lanes. Mind you, a couple of decades earlier, London roundabouts enjoyed no markings on roundabouts, despite there being three of more lanes! Perhaps drivers in the past were considered capable of dodging each other. 

The photo above shows the roads without pavements - those are still to come so don't worry, it's not finished yet. I'm tempted to add some patch repairs, another job for the future.