12-13-2012, 10:52 AM
Thanks Reinhard. I still have some cleaning up of the ballast to do, I want it to look a little better maintained, eventhough the track and ties are looking old. The 'green' I've used is Humbrol Acrylic Olive Drab number 155. It's a 'green' suitable for military models , I think it comes from that range, but works well as a base coat, provided several other washes go over the top of it.
As for the ballast, I generally find the appearance of ballast much to coarse in a model, so I have used Z scale ballast from Busch, on this HO module. To be exact Busch Z 7125 .
To me, this ballast is much closer to 'scale size' in HO than N or HO scale offerings. On top of that this has a nice brown and grey blend, and it's fairly cheap too as ballast goes, I paid less than 2 Euro per bag, or about £1.30 each, probably usd $2.50 or so.
Koos
As for the ballast, I generally find the appearance of ballast much to coarse in a model, so I have used Z scale ballast from Busch, on this HO module. To be exact Busch Z 7125 .
To me, this ballast is much closer to 'scale size' in HO than N or HO scale offerings. On top of that this has a nice brown and grey blend, and it's fairly cheap too as ballast goes, I paid less than 2 Euro per bag, or about £1.30 each, probably usd $2.50 or so.
Koos
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