Thats a shame Missy, could you not weather the track and ballast to match?

Graham.

Hi Missy.

How much have you done on this particular board?

I had a similar situation once but found repeated washes of light grey/ brown just about saved the day. Though I doubt you will get it quite as nice looking as the top picture, you don't lose anything by trying first, if you are taking it off anyway.

I know you are something of a perfectionist, but to chip off all that ballast would surely be a spirit draining task?

Regards,

Chris

The top looks a bit yellow (probably the lighting). My experience is that ballast is always darker once laid. I'd definitely try to go about re-colouring by flooding the ballast with watered down paint.

Surely there must be a solution, how would you remove the ballast from between the sleepers let alone in between the pointwork without damaging or lifting the trackwork and we are talking 2mm here . Wish I could come up with some answers for you missy, I think you have to try the touch up with paint idea first.

Martyn.

cannot you use the excuse that, as with the prototype, the track has been re-ballasted ?

Hi Guys

Thank you for the useful advice. As Chris said I am a bit of a perfectionist and at the moment the only way I will be happy is if I strip it off and start again, painful I know but it will be worth it. I just thought it was worthwhile posting something about it so hopefully people will remember it in the future and not make the same mistake.

Missy

Forget about lifting the track- that would disturb your electrics - not exactly your favorite job I believe.

You could grind up a bit of brass to make a chisel just the right size to go between the sleepers and under the rail. Clearance would be tight.

Donw

Hello Don

That is pretty much what I have planned to do to tackle this but the idea was to use a flat screwdriver instead. I am still not looking forward to doing it but I know that its really the only thing I can do to be happy with it.

Missy