How to Build a Realistic Model Highway

In this video I show you how to build a realistic model highway. I am working on the North Texas scene on my layout and needed a two lane model highway. I used some techniques that I have never demonstrated before to build this realistic model highway on my model railroad layout. ✅ Want to get more RTNT? Consider becoming a channel member. Click the “Join” button or use this link to learn more: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDIjWTVFM8adgHWDPwjrY0Q/join ✅ Visit our sponsor, Midwest Model Railroad: https://www.midwestmodelrr.com 17331 E US Highway 40, Suite 107 Independence, MO 64055 (816) 399-5226 ✅ Keep up to date in the world of model railroading with Model Railroad News: www.modelrailroadnews.com ✅ Get to know the fascinating people of model railroading. Listen to A Modeler's Life: https://www.amodelerslife.com 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽 ✅ RTNT Amazon Page: https://www.amazon.com/shop/ronstrainsnthings ✅ Amazon Pick of the Week: Pumice Gel: https://amzn.to/3b3wKqV Artist's Masking Tape: https://amzn.to/3PD8TNL (NOTE: The above are Amazon affiliate links: I make a small commission from any purchased made through these links.) ✅ Save 10% on all regularly priced items from Micro-Mark: The Small Tool Specialists. Use promo code RTRAINS upon checkout. https://www.micromark.com/ (NOTE: The above link is an affiliate link. I receive a commission from all purchases made through this link. Exclusions: This offer cannot be combined with any other offers, not applicable to Pre-Orders, Digitrax, SoundTraxx, or 3D items, applicable to merchandise price only, shipping and handling fees not included, gift cards, or eGift certificates.) ✅ Find fantastic foam cutting tools and adhesives from Hot Wire Foam Factory at: https://hotwirefoamfactory.com/home.php?bid=4&partner=35706 (NOTE: The above link is an affiliate link. I make a small commission from any purchases made through this link.) ✅ Get RTNT merch--branded products, fun T-shirts, and more--at my Spreadshop store: https://ronstrainsnthings.myspreadshop.com/ 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽 Contents: 0:00 Intro 1:07 Mock Up and Template 1:36 Laying Out the Highway on Styrene 2:05 Cutting Styrene 3:15 Texturing the Highway 5:31 Joining Styrene Sections 6:10 Painting the Highway 6:40 Masking and Painting Highway Stripes 8:55 Applying RR Crossing Decals 10:06 Weathering the Highway 11:33 Modeling Cracks in the Highway 12:00 Completed Highway 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽 🔸 Contact me via email: [email protected] 🔸 Join the Ron's Railfans community on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ronsrailfans 🔸 Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/RTRAINS 🔸 For more about my layout, the Texas Colorado & Western Railway, check out https://www.facebook.com/TCWRy 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽 Credits: 🤘 Theme Song: "Extremes" by the Lemming Shepherds Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/