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:
Today, I continued on the ballast, just a small section:
A while back I experimented on adding rust weathering to the tracks with the airbrush. Here's the link to the post. Not long after I found this video on Instagram that gives an idea of track rust:
L'am96 n°455 entre en gare de Lille Flandres son terminus. Elle est en provenance de Courtrai. La rame auras desservie les gares de Mouscron, Tourcoing, Roubaix et Lille Flandres avec +3 minute à l'arrivée.
Another nice day to continue on the ballast ...
At some point, I need to do a short post about the various tools available for ballasting. Somehow, a plastic spoon and a tooth pick are still the best things for me ...
An unusually warm day today, so I finished ballasting that small section of the three curves that I started before winter:
We keep going at it!
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| The red lines mark where I stopped before the vacations 😊 |
