It's back to ballast this past W/E. Two things I have discovered when gluing ballast -
1. I am using matte medium as the glue and was using wet water as the wetting agent. I found that I needed to go back over the same area more than once for the ballast to harden. I decided to try 90% isopropyl alcohol. It worked much better. The ballast cured rock hard overnight.
2. For large turnouts like the Ross 4-way I ended up buying sheet cork from a local crafts store. I trimmed the cork a little bit and glued it down with white glue. Saturday I started to glue ballast. I covered the area with alcohol and glue. Sunday morning the sheet had puckered up like it had swollen. I spent some time cutting excess sheet away from the turnout and am hoping the track screws will hold the rest in place.
