 |
| My order of HO scale ballast looked too coarse for me so I smashed it down to size. |
I recently got my order of ballast from Arizona Rock & Mineral. My order was for yard mix and cinders in HO scale. They offer ballast in all scales and more tones than one can think of. I found the ballast to be a bit large although my test ballasting on Gatorfoam revealed it to be suitable. I just like mine to be finer looking ballast. So I did to what I have done to some larger ballast in the past...I smashed it with a auto body hammer on a piece of steel. The size looks a lot better now, at least to me. More testing is required...George Dutka
and%20590.jpg) |
| The smashed ballast on the left. In future I probably will purchase N scale ballast to mix in with the HO scale ballast. Maybe a mix of 2 parts N to 1 HO. Some experimenting will be required. |
%20590.jpg)
Many modelers mix Woodlands Scenic's HO and N scale ballast for the same effect. Nice.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ben for your input I think that is always a good approach. I did that with hi-ball ballast when building my layout. The ballast was a mix of the two sizes and coloring black and cinders. I also mixed in a bit of Vermont soil into the mix. George
ReplyDelete