After a great absence from the blogosphere, I wanted to show how I made roads for tiny terrain. I came up with sprinkling hobby store railroad ballast onto the felt. The key to making this work is having a custom-made template. The template is 2 u-shaped channels separated by 2 plastic beads (one each glued at both ends of the paired channels). The channels capture "oversprinkle" which can be reused and also keep the roads straight. This is not an exact precision approach though. There will still be oversprinkle or wide spots here and there but that's just what roads look like from the air! (I rationalize.)
The key issues is that they look good, it's cheap and fast to make lots of roads. At the end of the game you just suck'em with a Dustbuster or similar small vacuum to be re-used.
You can see the whole terrain-building approach here ...note that the camera washes out some of the blue glitter rivers and over-exposes on road scatter--the effect is better when viewing with "Mark One" eyeballs. The step-by-step terrain-building pictures run as a slide show but it's probably better to click the "Next" button so you can see a larger edition of each picture and underneath it text detailing the process.
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