What is the best way to paint lane diividing lines on your roads and streets?

I prefer to use one of these. However it's pretty hard to find one in N scale. Here in Kansas City, there's a local shop that selss lines pre-printed on dry transfer paper. If you have a good printer, that may be an option.

If you need dimensions for the lanes, here's a good resource from the Oklahoma Dept. of Transportation. In fact, there are a bunch of great diagrams here for marking crossings, etc.

Using these, you may even be able to make a stencil out of transparency paper. Be sure to post what you decide to do, and how it works out for you.

Tom

For what it's worth:

I used an ordinary ruler to draw two straight lines, the appropriate scale distance apart, and filled in the space in between with as near to the correct colour as I could get.

While I laid the ruler on the outside of the line when painting to ensure that the line was straight, this is entirely optional and masking tape might be a better alternative - if only to avoid 'creep' as the paint can sometimes ooze under the ruler and consequently need to be covered-up with the 'background' ashphalt (blacktop) colour.

It works for me, but I would suggest that you experiment to see if what I have described is what you are looking for.

Komata

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Tom,

I've had some luck with Elmer's Paint Pens.  The picture below shows the stripes on a bridge.  Works really well on a straight stretch of road, where you can use a straight edge.  I find it pretty hard to do curves although I might try using a French curve for a guide.