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I am in the fortunate position of having delegated ornamental ballasting to my wife who has done a really good job, but we are not into realism more iinto decorative effects. We use crusher fines initially, then when we get it nearly right thence a thin layer of 75 % fines and 25 % cement, we then lay the track down inits correct position. We then place into position some decorative pebbles; then using a tupperware container with holes drilled in the bottom we dust the whole thing with cement. We then lightly but throughly water the whole thing in. Within a day it is all set and looks great. Not prtotypical at all but pleasant to look at and with interesting themes. We get a lot of different types of gravel and pebbles around here and they are very cheap. The cost of crusher is beyond me we buy it in 20 litre bags 5 at a time the price started off at A$9.60 for the lot and the last lot cost A$ 3.60 all up? hard to undrstand. Our layout has now been hit twice by monsoonal depressions and we didn't sustain any real damage to speak of so I guess we must have done something ok to suit our climatic conditions and area. I solder all my rail except at the points and have not had any prolems with expansion and believe me its hot enough. here as it is virtually in the tropics. Regards Ian
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