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Good morning all, Managed to get some more ballasting done last night & early this morning. I think I'm starting to hit my stride - I'm doing smaller (1ft), more manageable chunks of track at a time than the long stretches I tried to do before. Thanx Paul, Inch, ChuckNKathy, and Fergie for all your various formulas. I used straight alcohol and found that works quite well![:D] (Except when I used it to thin my Elmers - that made it 'curdle' like milk and lemon juice...![xx(][B)]) I'll pass on the india ink though - the prototype I'm modeling (both current and predecessor) used ballast that is very light-colored, and I'm already having a problem with it darkening too much when I cement it. Trent - What era is the OJ tank car model your producing? If it's 1950's (like 90% of modelers I know) I'm afraid I can't use it on my pike... Scott - Easy does it on the suntanning[:O]! If you're fair-skinned like me, your risk of skin cancer is much greater - don't make the same mistake of many in my generation. But aside from that, have fun in OC! Fergie - sorry to hear about the 2-10-2 problems - hope you don't need to widen any of your curves to accommodate it...[:O] Steve - I see you haven't posted over here in awhile. Hope you get that addition finished soon so you can get back to some serious train-runnin'! . . . I'm outta here, time to take my son to school!
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