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Coming on nicely!Comment
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There's quite a bit of work in these Lee, and it shows , looking good .Comment
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Who sez you can't make a silk purse out of a Sheepscot??:tongue-out3::tongue-out2::tongue-out::smiling5::thumb2:
Couldn't help it Lee....just getting my coat....
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I think I see the finish line site. I painted the Body a semi-gloss black and hand painted the wheels with some cheap red craft paint that works very well. Don’t always look over the cheap stuff. I need to add the Decals, Mudflaps and paint the lights on then I’m calling this one done and on to the Autocar to pull it.Comment
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That turned out right nice Lee.....those wheels set it off just right.Comment
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A little bit of weathering might bring out some of the structural outlines and add a little more interest .....wadaya think?
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Interesting that you showed this as I've looking at sites showing methods of adding ballast to wagons using something called Ballast Magic .https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xbcdV-bJwY4.
Have you ever used anything like this Lee.Comment
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Bit of an aside about “ballast magic” here for John.
It is designed for holding ballast in place on trackwork, and will work best in this application on full depth sleepered trains set track such as Peco or Hornby. It’s a very traditional technique that has been around since Pontius was a pilot…..
I used to put the ballast on, get the shoulders right, then glue it in place using dilute PVA with a drop of dish soap to break surface tension. The glue was added to the ballast using a garden mist spray or eye dropper.
The ballast magic product sounds exactly like cascamite, which was another way of doing it……mix cascamite with the ballast, then spray the whole with water, activating the glue.
Trouble is, both of these methods make a very noisy rigid track surface because the track is basically set in concrete. They are also extremely unforgiving if you need to re lay track. They also don’t work so well with hand built track that uses rivet and ply construction because the sleepers are much thinner, making ballast placement harder.
More modern methods, adopted by finescale modellers during the nineties, involved glueing track to a flexible sub support (camping mats were good) using rubber based glue and adding the ballast at the same time….ballast being died cork rather than crushed stone. This was much more compliant, so gave better track holding, and was very quiet in use. It is also much better for those using DCC control as you can actually hear the sound effects made by the kit when the trains are running.
Sorry about the interlude……
Wagon is looking good by the way Lee….Comment
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No John I haven’t. I use “N” scale ballast for my track road bed and roads and driveways. I sometimes mixed it with White sand I got off the beaches of Florida when Carlee played in the Softball World Series when she was young. I kinda got my own method of Ballasting seems to work. Very interesting though. I’ll have more updates soon on the layout.Comment
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