By a very dedicated 1:500 scale aircraft collector from Rome Italy, Alessandro! His work has amazed thousands of collectors worldwide. Having already built from scratch 5 different airports (among them, Funchal, Dusseldorf and Corfu) he has been an inspiration to hundreds more. Alessandro's drive is unique really, as his endless effort to create, update and photograph his airports have become a daily activity.
Let me guide you through his step by step procedure of completing his task.
DAY 1
In this first batch of photos you can see the wood panels used; Corfu airport is surrounded by various landscapes: water, grass, sand. Half part of the runway (No 35) is on the water with a grass border, so he had to build a wooden runway on top of a wooden base in order to paint the sea and to add some grass on the borders. What the numbered pieces are:
1: Rwy 35 / 2: landscape / 3: Round backtrack at the end of Rwy 35 / 4+5: airport, Rwy 17 & apron.
Stick the upper wood panel (runway 35) with glue and then hammer some small nails.
Paint everything with the white-waterproof-mordant paint. (removeable only with trupentine from surfaces and brushes)Let it rest 24 hours (for the mordant paint to dry).
DAY 2
Again, the runway piece is placed over the landscape-wood and the white mordant waterproof paint is dry (it is important to make the wooden panels wateresist!). Now you can commence starting to paint the runway and the sea around the runway (actually it is an artificial lake around Corfu runway).
Before starting to paint the runway and the water, use masking tape to maintain straight lines on the borders.
The runway asphalt is made of white and gray (with a little quantity of Payne gray); for the water use the blue color of your choice. All colors used are tempera colors! They are diluted with water but, being in fact made by water, they can be removed and corrected with water in case of a mistake NO PROBLEM really! Acrylic colors can not be removed and any misshap is trouble or eternal.
The runway asphalt is made of white and gray (with a little quantity of Payne gray); for the water use the blue color of your choice. All colors used are tempera colors! They are diluted with water but, being in fact made by water, they can be removed and corrected with water in case of a mistake NO PROBLEM really! Acrylic colors can not be removed and any misshap is trouble or eternal.
Now it's time to glue the grass around the runway (using artificial grass, cut very very short) and to paint the ground. To stick the grass, used simple glue. This is the tempera color for the sand.
Quick preview:
To paint the apron use a lighter gray than on the runway.
Apply some grass also around the taxiways...
Corfu used tree trunks for the the landing lights. Later on they were replaced by the metal structures.
To draw the runway lines use marker
colors and rulers while for the 
numbering use ready made adhesive ones.
numbering use ready made adhesive ones. Same goes for the apron taxi ways. Use Uniposca marker colors and round rulers.
And VOILA!! You are ready for takeoff!
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