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For dirt, I like real dirt or sand. I am using river silt collected in the summer when the water line has dropped. I take about a bucket home then sift this through a screen. Rather than painting the ground a ground cover, why not use ground; that way you never have to say "you're sorry." By this I mean, if some ground shows through, people are seeing real ground rather than paint after all the final scenicing is done. <br /> <br />I am now starting collections of different coloured dirt. I find you only need about a large ice cream bucket full of sifted stuff, it goes a long ways, kind of like ballast. My first haul was Fraser River Silt, circa 2003. Very small stones came from the kids school yard play area, circa 2002. I've been told but I haven't found any yet that the red dirt used on pitcher's mound in baseball can be very useful - I have my eyes open for this. <br /> <br />I am protolancing the Fraser/Thompson river on my layout so I decided the lazy thing to do was get some of that dirt, that will be late spring of 2004.
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