It seems as though the choice of ballast is much like the choice of cars--some cost more, some have many colors but certainly most will get us there.
My first experience in junior high was with bird gravel, Weldwood powdered glue and some gray powdered paint. I wet it in place and it worked for that time period. When I started my present layout, I bought some long forgotten brand of ballast in a medium gray. After wetting much of the color left the product. Before it was completely dry, I tried to remove it--man what a mess. It sort of all balled up like a popcorn ball, so I finally let it dry and then scrapped it out and overlaid it with something else. And talk about cheap. My wife and I were once given a "mad ball" with some company logo on it. I finally got tired of it and cut it open to see what it was made of--looked like Woodland Scenics medium brown, so I used it. So I stole my wife's and ballasted about 6' of track. So that's what guys who don't have IRA's do to save money! Bob Werre PhotoTraxx.com > Hey Mike. > > As a former proponent of cheap cat litter on this list, and now an > admitted user of Woodland Scenics products, I take no offense from > your remarks <g>. My days of buying brass are long past, due to the > performance of my IRA! And now that I’m building a large layout, I try > to cut costs wherever I can. > > But cost is not the main reason that I use these materials: WS medium > gray blend ballast is the closest match that I have found to the > Monon’s main line, and cat litter replicates broken limestone from the > southern Indiana stone quarries better than any other product. What’s > more, both materials take water based paint and stain quite well: more > realistically than real stone. > > See: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/photos/album/135944245/pic/700718699/view?picmode=&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&count=20&dir=asc > > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/photos/album/135944245/pic/700718699/view?picmode=&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&count=20&dir=asc> > > To each his own. > > Roger Nulton > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
