Steve24944 posted:WM fan posted:WM fan posted:Steve24944 posted:I dug a 5 gallon bucket of sand out of a creek bed. ( western Colorado ) Let it dry and ran it through a cheap kitchen sieve. The top of my benchwork is covered with celotex painted earth brown. Brush on a white glue / water mix, sprinkle on the sand. On top of that Woodland Scenics turf.
Steve
Looks great, thanks for the information..
What did you use for ballast? Thanks..
My ballast comes from nature. Here in western Colorado we have these large ant hills, like 2-3 feet in diameter. The ants are great sorters, and bring up these large grains, pebbles. I scoop up the material into buckets ( sorry ants ) bring it home, run it through a sieve. After track is laid, I add the wood ties, then apply my ballast. I use tweezers to pick out the junk and oversized grains, then apply white glue/water mix.
Steve
OK, well that`s out, we have a lot of ants in Florida, but they only bring up sand, and i can get sand anywhere here. My other layout i used chicken grit, comes in three different sizes, kind of hard to find here, when i lived in Delaware [ chicken country ] it was no problem.
Thank you for your reply..
Hearl
