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Silver Sidelines

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Longsheds layout started life around 2005. Base board construction and track laying is complete but as a number of observers have noted the track is unballasted and the scenery is lacking. This blog will detail progress with these tasks.

 

Last week saw completion of the ballasting to the mid level junction station:

 

 

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This week has seen a start to ballasting at the branch terminus:

 

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Ballast is blue poppy seed otherwise known as maw seed and it is mixed with wallpaper paste. It will be interesting to see just how durable the 'product' is.

 

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Did you have any trouble buying it in that quantity? Over here it was under threat of mild sales restrictions owing to people making "interesting" tea out ot it...

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I spent many hours trawling the internet and telephoning shops to see if they stocked the seeds. If you look around it is available but carriage was always going to be expensive. Then by chance when I was in our local health food shop buying a beer kit I noticed that they had a bottle of seeds - which are used for coating bread. I asked if they would supply me with 1Kg - no problem that was how they bought it. So I put my order in for 4Kg and waited for the weekly delivery from the wholesaler. I have used nearly 1kg in just a month, so I guess I will be back to buy some more!

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