ROADS
It has come to my attention that some people buy their roads from Forge World. A foolish course of action. Consider this: a road is basically a flat, textured surface you place upon your table. It's literally the easiest thing to build! Follow along as I illuminate.

MATERIALS:

  • 3mm or 6mm thick MDF (craft wood)
  • Gaffer tape
  • Plaster
  • Textured paint
  • PVA glue
  • Static Grass

First, cut your MDF into 30cm by 13cm sections, and bevel the edges.

TIP: Since the road sections are straight, you can bevel the edges easily with a wood working plane.

Now, apply plaster to the middle of each section. This will represent the road surface. Let the plaster dry for a few minutes, and then roll a wheel along the surface to create ruts. You needn't use a Warhammer wheel, I used one from a WWII armored car model.
When the plaster is dry, paint the road surface with textured paint, and leave to dry.

Now, paint the road surface black, drybrush with brown (such as burnt umber or Scorched Brown), then drybrush again with beige or bleached bone.
Paint the verges green, and sprinkle with static grass.
Paint a little PVA glue into the ruts to form puddles.

TIP: A gravestone from the Skeleton regiment makes a good mile stone. I find Nuln a convenient destination for these markers, as it's the shortest place name in the Empire!

Now why would you bother buying them from forge world?

About a week and a half later, while I was waiting for the modeling clay sand bags on my gothic ruins to dry I decided it was time to make some curves in the roads. This is simple using the pizza slice method. What you do it make little triangular wedges of road, and lay them down as corners.
You can lay different numbers down for different radius curves, and by flipping them round make snaking roads. Mine are 9cm along the straight edges simply cause that was the widest bit of MDF I could find easily in the shed. All you need to do is find the mid point, and line one of your road sections up against the piece so one corner is at the mid point, and the other is at the edge of the wood. Mark this out, and you know you've got the angle right.