Ballasting and painting track

[nachoman]

For the ballasting I've been doing this week, I've actually had better luck using soapy water (as opposed to alcohol) to pre wet the ballast using a pump action hairspray type bottle. The pump action bottles seem to produce a finer mist than the hairspray bottles. I'm using ballast from Arizona Rock and Mineral, and prewetting with soapy water and using dilute white glue is working perfectly.