Would assume this dirt does wonders to the blades of whatever you use to cut 
it????????

--- In [email protected], Robert Jackson <rwjaxon@...> wrote:
>
>    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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