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[MountainMan]

Aha! The edit button is back today - I've either recovered my eyesight, or I've been removed from some moderated status or other.

In any case, I have some additional tie detailing that I've been experimenting with on the shelf (the following, and a few additional, were posted in the Distressed Ties thread in the weathering forum). These were formed by cutting various notches out of the ties using a hobby knife, then airbrushing some white over the tie to give it an aged look (I need to fix the overspray in the first). The CVT ties are especially good for this because they're hollow, making a deep split relatively easy to reproduce.


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Next is the final tie work for two turnouts that have gone tieless for far too long...

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Those weathered ties look terrific, but I would comment that you might not want to have one in the middle of a stretch of "good" ties as maintenance would have caught that, and not on a mainline, either. On a seldom used and/or semi-abandoned spurline...outstanding~!

Meanwhile, I would be remiss if I did not compliment you on your use of your track gang to showcase your progress!