I just finished ballasting about 10 feet of mainline today. The hardest part...was getting off my butt and doing it!
I cleaned off the areas I was going to do, sprayed a 50-50 mix of water-isopropyl alcohol along both sides of the track, then used a 3oz measuring cup to pour the ballast down the sides (not putting it in between the rails), followed by a swipe of a brush to tidy it up.
I repeated the spraying of the alcohol/water mix to hold the ballast in place, then I coated the ballast with a 50-50 mix of Matte Medium-Water, poured from a squeeze bottle.
It'll probably take 2 days to dry and I ran out of ballast so I need to get to the LHS to get more.
It's not as bad as I remembered, just need to make sure everything I don't want to get glue on is out of the way cause it's going to get messy anyway.
