Prairie Tank
Western Thunderer
I am very fortunate to be part of the Heyside Group, which consists of extremally talented, highly knowledgeable people and me. If I have any problems or need a little help I am only to ask and it is there for me.
I was unsure (read did not have a clue) of how to signal my lay out so needed a little advise from Roger. I have fitted the first of the ground signals this weekend.
I have also been weathering some of the track and ballast. I gave up looking at photo's to find the correct type of ballast, there are lots of different colours/shades of the stuff and goodness knows how many variations of weathering!
I settled on grey ballast which I have washed with a 5 parts water/1 part Humbrol Rail Match Sleeper Grime. Once dried this was dry brushed with ash grey paint along with the sleepers, my lay out is set in summer time and I wanted to give the track work a dry dusty look.
Rails are painted in Panzer Ace Dark Rust and then dry brushed with Humbrol Rail Match dry rust.
The first photo shows the original ballast colour surrounded by the 'washed'.
John
I was unsure (read did not have a clue) of how to signal my lay out so needed a little advise from Roger. I have fitted the first of the ground signals this weekend.
I have also been weathering some of the track and ballast. I gave up looking at photo's to find the correct type of ballast, there are lots of different colours/shades of the stuff and goodness knows how many variations of weathering!
I settled on grey ballast which I have washed with a 5 parts water/1 part Humbrol Rail Match Sleeper Grime. Once dried this was dry brushed with ash grey paint along with the sleepers, my lay out is set in summer time and I wanted to give the track work a dry dusty look.
Rails are painted in Panzer Ace Dark Rust and then dry brushed with Humbrol Rail Match dry rust.
The first photo shows the original ballast colour surrounded by the 'washed'.
John