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Hi all, Just another question concerning using watered-down Copydex for ballasting; I have just laid some granite-based ballast (from Koemo in Germany) on the time-honoured test plank and found it soaked in really well having pre-wetted the ballast first. I wanted to test two sleeper colours at the same time, so half were painted using Vallejo Black-Brown and the others with Revell 84 mixed with a small amount of matt black (Revell 8) Once the glue had dried, I went back to my test plank - as expected, the ballast was all darker than before, which is fine, but the glue had made a right mess of the tops of the sleepers - some seemed fine, others had what looked like a coating on part of the sleeper that completely changed the colours I used into a rubbery light grey. Also, everything looks slightly shiny. The rubbery nature of the glue is fine - seems to hold all the ballast as I want it to - but I guess I'm looking for ways to not get the glue on top of the sleepers. Using a pipette and dripping glue only onto the ballast works really well until it doesn't, and glue floods over the sleepers. Any ideas from anyone? Thanks, Peter

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Hi everyone, Great to read through your reminiscing of that time. I was at school in Germany during the 1980s as my parents were both teachers for British Forces Schools, first in Hamm and then Dortmund. We travelled to Berlin on the military train from Braunschweig twice, the first time I must have been about 5 years old but the impressions and experiences have stuck with me ever since. For those with an interest in the British Military Train, please do have a look at my website www.british-berliner.org, where I have collected together photos and information about the service and its rolling stock in the 1980s. Best Regards, Peter