08-06-2021, 11:39 AM
I prefer "wet" water for ballasting (and all ground cover scenery work, too). If I'm ballasting 20' of double track, the alcohol would be evapourated before I get even halfway-done. I use a fairly large sprayer that somehow followed me home from work, many years ago. It has an adjustable nozzle that offers everything from a concentrated stream like that from a water pistol, to a very fine mist. In many places, the ballast might be a half-inch deep where the trackside land forms drop considerably...
Those locations may take several days before the glue mixture fully hardens.
The jug of white glue offers a good comparison of the size of the sprayer...
...and the bottle beside the jug, which originally held matte medium, is filled from the jug, then used to fill the little dropper-type bottle....
Ballasting (along with painting the rails... and sometimes also the ties) is actually one of my favourite parts of model railroading, as it lifts the bare track from a piece of model equipment to a stage on which the trains look so much more realistic.
Wayne
Those locations may take several days before the glue mixture fully hardens.
The jug of white glue offers a good comparison of the size of the sprayer...
...and the bottle beside the jug, which originally held matte medium, is filled from the jug, then used to fill the little dropper-type bottle....
Ballasting (along with painting the rails... and sometimes also the ties) is actually one of my favourite parts of model railroading, as it lifts the bare track from a piece of model equipment to a stage on which the trains look so much more realistic.
Wayne