I forgot to paint the rails of the concrete sleepered section of track, and doing it after ballasting isn't easy - especially when you have to practically do a back-flip-hand-stand to get to the backs of the rails, which can be seen from the other end of the layout unfortunately. I've decided I don't like concrete sleepered track, one miss with the brush and it's there forever. With wooden sleepered track it doesn't matter! I used sleeper grime again, the various shades of rust would only look right on very new track. The ballast will get a shading down too, along with that trail of oil in the 4ft, with a bit on the end of the sleepers on the inside of the curve that you get with a cant (not that there is one).

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