Ballasting and painting track

[rrinker]

No, I did not pre-wet, because when I tested this out in the past there was no need, not with alcohol. I tried the drop of detergent method and it fails utterly - the water here is too hard. That's when I hit on mixing elmer's and 70% alcohol and using that - it worked perfectly. No 'floating' ballast and it soaked right in like pouring pure alcohol on the ballast. I did some more today and added more alcohol, works better. The difference is matte medium instead of white glue this time. I'll be switchign back to white glue, matte medium is FAR too expensive.

--Randy