Ballasting and painting track
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#32
I really would advise against it. You think women get mad when we 'borrow' a kitchen utensil to use for some purpose on the layout... Play it safe, get your own. Icon_lol

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#33
A Kitchen Utensil?

... in the UNMENTIONABLES drawer?


KINKY!
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tetters Wrote:I don't even want to know how you got the notion to try that one out!! Icon_lol Icon_lol Icon_lol

I have to admit, that I have seen a demonstration of this technique years ago in a video on a german modelrailroad forum. But as you said, the prototype uses a similar technique to make the ballast settle.

Ok, I still have to laught when I remember seen this vid the first time. Icon_lol
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#35
You know what? I would love to see this technique demonstrated. Any chance you can provide us with a link SP1? Misngth Misngth Misngth
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#36
No way Tetters.
Must have been in the late 90`s, when I was new to modelrailroading - long before YouTube. I doubt the video still exists.
Jens
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SP1 Wrote:No way Tetters.
Must have been in the late 90`s, when I was new to modelrailroading - long before YouTube. I doubt the video still exists.

Ahh... and so the quest begins. I'm going to hunt around the net and see if I can find it. I imagine I'll end up in some pretty dark and nefarious places as a result of my adventure, however I am determined to seek out this Excalibur of model rail road enlightenment. I will not rest until I find it and firmly plant it deep within the fertile minds of model railroaders everywhere!
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tetters Wrote:Ahh... and so the quest begins. I'm going to hunt around the net and see if I can find it. I imagine I'll end up in some pretty dark and nefarious places as a result of my adventure, however I am determined to seek out this Excalibur of model rail road enlightenment. I will not rest until I find it and firmly plant it deep within the fertile minds of model railroaders everywhere!

I am sorry, but your adventure is already over now. Got it Wink

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3di9d_...stopf_tech

Wait until the advertisement is over..
Jens
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#39
DAMMIT!!!! Icon_lol


Worship

Holy mackeral!!! That actually works really good too! 357 357 357
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#40
Yeah... guess I have to try it now.
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#41
Well, finally managed to hit up the craft store and get some larger size paintbrushes - HUGE difference. I got the 'rust' coast on another large chunk of track in a fraction of the time it was taking me before AND there are fewer shiny spots where the paint didn't cover - on the part I already did I'm just taking extra care with the grimy black so as to leave no shiny spots.
According to the article in the new issue of MRH, I'm doing it backwards, there they say to do the ground cover first and then ballast. I figure it would be easier to get the ground cover where I need it after the balalst is in place - particularly ont he sidings where there will be some weeds even in the middle. I haven't even figured out where I'm putting structures, let along plot what sort of ground cover goes where. As a lightly used branch line, I'm expecting to sprinkle plenty of weeds and so forth along the ballast, this wouldn;t have been impeccibly maintained like a premier main line.

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#42
I'm doing ballast first also. Seems to be the way to go, especially for branchlines and shortlines that are not meticulously maintained.
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#43
On a more budget-minded note, one may be able to salvage a vibration motor from an old cell phone or pager.
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I'm wondering it the vibrator motor from an old cell phone or pager can be fit into one of the Bachmann MOW machines. They're pretty small little motors. Then you'd have functioning MOW equipment that does for your railroad construction what the real ones do. Goldth

One from the sex shop? Eh...not so much. Those things are expensive. And borrowing one? Wouldn't dare even ask, I get in enough trouble here at home as it is. 790_smiley_picking_a_fight
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I have one of those heat and massage car seat things, I actually find it uncomfortable as all heck in the car, however it does have essentially 6 small vibrating motors in it. Conveniently that run on 12V DC, too.

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