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Re: ballast
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 23 Jan 2001 04:09:18 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Christopher Tracey writes:
> A few weeks ago I had this idea for a solution to a problem that had been bothering me for a while. Whenever I see a green baseplate between the ties
> of the train track, it looks really wierd to me. I seen the GMLTC pics where they use a combination of various plates to acheive a ballast effect. I
> thought this was good but I never had enough spare plates to accomplish something like that.
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> Then I thought about the mosiac kit. My kit arrived last week.
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=2934
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> The track is raised up one plate height mainly using dirty, miscolored and broken plates. 1x1 plates in light and medium gray are randomly arranged
> around and between the track. I didn't use the dark gray pieces because they match the track. Two 90-piece bags will cover about 2.2 track sections.
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> -chris
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> ps. sorry for the blurry pics, no enough light in the basement.
An interesting idea; Mosaic kits used solely for ballast. ("Please send me
equal parts of each color.") I wonder how many sections of track you get for
each kit...
Rich
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