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Hi folks....

I have read your ideas about roadways for battle arenas, and the need to use  them in order to reduce grass damage to the wheel and track mechanisms on the tanks....so here is an idea.....

I often make toyboxes in the shape of Thomas the Tank Engine.....

To make the boiler section I buy plywood or hardboard that has cuts across the full width of the rear side of the sheet, these cuts penetrate half wway through the thickness of the sheet.

So I have a sheet that is smooth on one side, but looks like corrugated cardboard on the reverse side. This makes the board very flexible.

If you cut the sheet to make your road way shapes, coat  the corrugated side with a good varnish, and the smoot side is coated with stone paint, you have a good road that will follow ground contours. The varnish will prevent moisture ingress distorting the sheet permanently.

The sections can be held/joined with velcro strips. I make small road sections like this for my grandchildren to run their cars on in my garden.

Worth a thought eh???

Mike

I have never seen this board, do B&Q sell it?

don,t think that Homebase sell it but i will have a look when i go to work tonight........
Fleshy..........................
if they do, i can get 20% off ..................

Yup....I buy my sheets from B&Q, 1/2 and 1/4 sheets.

I am trying to think where I have seen large sheets of conveyor belt material. That is rubberised canvas, 1/4 inch thick and ribbed both sides. I have seen it somewhere near where I work. I wish I had a fully operational brain........

Mike

What about roofing felt? You know the stuff they cover shed roofs with. Comes on a large roll, is flexible, cheap, mostly black with a sandy finish. Unrolled it'll allow lots of different road junctions to be cut out and follow the contours of the ground.

Hi Crispy,

I never thought of that...industrial felt is more cloth than pitch so that is probably even better. I will start to check out road surfaces next week.

Mike