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I was building streets for wh40k lately, but I sumbelled on a problem I want to have sidewalks.
But how can I glue them on without the street bending? ( I'm making them from cardboard that was cut from cereal boxes.
I was thinking abbout adding four edges below the street segment preventing it from bending but I'm not sure if it will work.

That bending you're referring to is probably the glue warping the material. I would use a glue stick instead of white glue in this case.

Rubber cement should work, as well.

Apply it to both surfaces to be glued, allow to dry until it's sticky but not slimy (technical terms, there) and then position them together and rub to eliminate any air bubbles.

And the clean-up of overflow glues is easy. Let dry, roll with your fingers and you've got little glue boogers ... and those are always fun !!

Myrthe wrote:Rubber cement should work, as well.

Apply it to both surfaces to be glued, allow to dry until it's sticky but not slimy (technical terms, there) and then position them together and rub to eliminate any air bubbles.

And the clean-up of overflow glues is easy. Let dry, roll with your fingers and you've got little glue boogers ... and those are always fun !!

Dry mounting is fun!

I have started work recently on some roads for a modular city fight table mbf for the back, some black foam stuff found in the felt section of my local dollar store, and some bricks from Hirst arts as sidewalks. I will try and snag a photo tonight of some WIPS and get them up here

Build your buildings (assuming this is cityfight) on a material that is thicker than your streets, and leave a sidewalk around the buildings, by making your thick base extend a couple inches out from the building (and painting it gray or whatever). Then, when you put the building next to the road it will look like you have a sidewalk. For this to work you have to have buildings all down your road, of course, but it would look cool if you did.

All of my cityfight buildings and ruins are on placemats (8"x10" usually) made from 3mm mdf. This gives the sidewalk effect around them without much effort.

We have a few charcoal grey boards we use for cityfights at my club, and they go well together. If we want to alter the pattern of roads, we just change the terrain layout a bit.

Plasticard, anyone?

Though it's a bit more expensive than extra cereal boxes, building your streets out of sheet styrene will make them much more durable, and they won't warp when you try to glue on sidewalks.

I've used textured/patterned plasticard for bases before, and Evergreen's stuff (manufacturer) has "Sidewalk" as one of its patterns available (in at least two sizes). There are also a variety of textured sheeting available for model railroads.

Very thin foam (say, camping underlay) would work too.

I have seen it done with sandpaper. Or as said, use textured plasticard.