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[quote]QUOTE: What order do I have to go in , if any, for Ballast , Turf, Small mountain, asphalt road, some trafic lights, crossing gates, and the placing of buildings?[/quote] Hi Mike I highly recommend mounting or painting a backdrop (if you had planned for one) as a first step in scenery. Then work from back to front starting with the land forms (mountian or hills). Place your buildings before applying soil or turf so the buildings look well planted and don't look like they're floating on the ground. As for roads, they are usually higher than the ground next to them for drainage, so they go on top of the turf. A freshly ballasted right of way will cover turf but a old right of way will have weeds growing over it. So it's your call as ballast over turf or turf over ballast. I also recommend this [url="http://store.yahoo.net/kalmbachcatalog/12194.html"]BOOK[/url]. You can find it for less at [url="http://shopping.yahoo.com/b_books_53087558"]Yahoo Books[/url].
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