Have You Seen This Ballasting Tool?

[nachoman]

Not just like that one, but I have seen and used one similar for HO scale. I was a little disappointed in the results, but most of that was because I expected too much and that my gluing technique was faulty. It's main usefulness was evenly spreading ballast - especially along the sides of the track. I thought it would greatly speed up ballasting and make the whole process fun, but I had not yet learned how to glue without disturbing the ballast, so in reality no time or headaches were saved. If you haven't mastered the standard ballasting technique, this device will not make things easier or faster. It likely won't spread ballast perfect, so you will still have some "touch up" areas to fix. Now that I know how to glue ballast without disturbing it, I would definitely consider one of these things if I had a large layout and lots of ballasting to do.