12-18-2008, 04:39 PM
I often use Woodland Scenics light grey ballast. It is too uniform for my taste (I think any given color ballast would be) Rather than mix multiple colors of ballast, which can look kind of salt and pepperish, I add color (usually black, but you may want to see what could get you closer to your brown/pink) to the alcohol I wet the applied ballast with in preparation of glueing. I consider it weathering. In order to avoid possible confusion, my method of fastening ballast to the tracks is to put in in place using a teaspoon, fingers and a small brush. I then soak it with alcohol sprayed in a very fine mist. Then I use diluted white glue (somwhere in the area of 50/50) dribbled on. I use an empty glue bottle, put the 50/50 mix in it, shake well, open the twist top and just let it drip/pour out.