Following on my spring cleaning and some ballast issues, I decided to fix those as well as finishing up on ballasting around the double-slip switch D2. As of now, all painted tracks have been ballasted!
Ok, I still need to finishing the center of the double slip ....
Slow progress, but progress ...
I've done the below in small sections over several days ...
I went back the next day and everything dried up nicely. Once weathered and ballasted, it'll be hardly visible.
I'm continuing my journey on adding missing sleepers. Here's the previous post with more explanations. And here's what I've done today on the layout:
We keep going at it!
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| The red lines mark where I stopped before the vacations 😊 |
Continuing on that section, I focused on this session on painting in rust color the side tracks for the switches. It is quite tedious, but once you know where to be careful not to paint for electric contact, it can be done rather quickly.
Once dry, I will have to clean the top rail and test to make sure I'm correct in my assumption before going around the layout 😁
Continuing on the same tracks ... 😁 I covered the critical areas of the switch points and ran the airbrush to paint the sleepers.
I then used a small brush to manually paint the sleepers in those covered areas:
I then started painted the sides of the tracks with the rust paint:
