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Re: ballast
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 23 Jan 2001 17:24:33 GMT
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When I first read this, before seeing the pic, I thought you "sprinkled" the
1x1's between and around the ties like little rocks (real ballast). That
would look cool! And I can't imagian how much that would cost! BTW I recall
older catalogs with ballast but I think they used raw ABS pellets. I wonder
if we can get Brad to sell us 3 variations of gray colored ABS pellets by
the pound! Messy but very cool at a train show. I guess we could vacuum it
up into a clean vac bag. Add dirt devil on the tool list for the next show ;D
SteveB
PNLTC
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.
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| (...) I actually tried that- my wife was watching and said NO! :) -chris (23 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| 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 (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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