Painting both sides of a sheet of Homasote before cutting helps to avoid
warping as Billy Wade described. I went Billy one better. Like him, I first
painted the sheets as obtained from the lumber yard with an earth colored
paint, but when the "up" side was painted I used an excess of paint and while
it was still wet I sprinkled a layer of real dirt over the entire surface.
Thus when it was dry I had a very realistic soil-surfaced sheet. Now and then
I had to go back and over-spray a sheet with flat clear acrylic to fix places
where the dirt was not adequately held by the paint. Moreover, since my
railroad imagines it is in Central California, I used real Central Califonia
soil! I had a relative send me a box of soil taken from a site fairly close
to a rail head on the edge of Fresno. Ya can't get more prototypical than that!
Bob Jackson
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