John,
As far as I know AR&M is still in business; it is just up for sale.
http://rrscenery.com/
I can get it locally at our full-service MRR hobby store, and it is
regularly re-stocked.
As for the art sand, I bought mine at Michaels. They have several
colors. I bought the black to represent coal. It has a slight shimmer to
it, which I think adds to the coal look-alike. If that bothers you, you
can spray it with Testors Dullcoat, for example. You can see the
material on this page (was kind of hard to photograph):
http://pmrr.org/Articles/SScaleEquipment/Loads.htm#coal
I have a bag of AR&M "Earth", part #1090, which is very fine,
medium-brown color. I use it for exposed scenery base areas.
Enjoy,
- Peter.
On 01/05/2012 8:51 am, John Albee wrote:
Beautiful work Koz! Wanta come to IL and install one?
Me? I've been working on the Castle Rock canyon area...trackage to be
about 60ft. aboe the river/road. Gonna be a good looker when it's done.
Hey...I'm looking for sandy soil. The kind you find in the west, dry,
sandy soil. Woodland Scenics "earth" really doesn't do it. I'm kinda
thinking maybe Hobby Lobby or Michaels might have something.
Arizona Rock used to have great stuff but I think they're out of business.
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