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    Ballasting!

    By lapford34102,

    Never my favourite job, a bit like patio laying I never seem to get it quite right. Tried a method new to me which was to put the glue down then add the the ballast. Used a small syringe with some thinned PVA and it seemed to work quite well. Ballast is fine Woodland scenics and looks OK.
    On the sidings tried the method the Chris Nevard used and filled in the gaps with modelling clay. It does seem to be a lot less messy than plaster though my application was considerably more heavy handed than the maestro's.
    Apologies for the useless photo's but it's cold in the garage and I simply popped out for a look and a couple of hasty shots.


    he track has been given and overall dusting with the airbrush and doesn't look too bad. The sidings were a disaster. I'd used a a selection of matchpots, again something suggested by Mr Nevard, and that was ok though it did seem to go on a bit thickly. Anyhow I left it and came back later to spray some darkish grey on the track and found the spray paint, Tamiya acrylic, reacted with the matchpot paint and went distinctly 'orrible. Should show a bit more patience...........!
    Bits of one siding do look like the finish I'm aiming for so all is not lost.
    Cheers
     
    Stu
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    Getting going

    By lapford34102,

    Hi,
     
    Although St Jude still has a couple more shows to go to I had more or less decided it was time to retire it. However it was invited back to a local show where it had been shown a couple of times before. Going back a third time seemed to me to be a bit much for the paying public so I declined but had not really considered a replacement. That was until I found all sorts of useful stuff in the builders skip at work. MDF sheeting and timber in largish quantities. I asked if I could have some and was told to take what I wanted.
    A 5' by 1' piece was framed up and I was away. In keeping with my eco-friendly side the track came out of a box of salvaged and unused stuff in the garage so it's becoming something of a recycling effort.
     
     

     

     
    The track is code 100 Peco with electrofrog points. The plan is all my own and any similarity between any trackplan, prototypical or model, is purely coincidental. I can cock things up quite well on my own thank you!.
    The fiddle yard (!) is off to the right. It'll be fine for an 08/04/03/Pannier/0-4-2 and a few wagons with something larger putting in the occasional appearance. While the trackplan is pure tosh the idea is based on somewhere that did exist. One important thing I do hope to get from doing this is trying out some techniques I haven't used before such as using cheap Maplins switches to both physically change the points and do the frog polarity. So far I've been impressed with this. However if it all goes runny then I haven't lost much. It'll be DCC by the way. The name is a bit of a skit on such worthies as Napier Road and Deltic Avenue though I doubt it'll be anything like those.
    Cheers
    Stu
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