Tween the Tracks Magnets

[Jetrock]

One common solution is to put them in places where you're going to have a grade crossing anyway--cover them with .020" styrene and paint it to match your street surface.

[MisterBeasley]

Paint shouldn't bother them. There isn't much clearance between the top of the magnet and the coupler pins themselves, so you really don't want to ballast on top of them, and there isn't much room twixt the magnet and rails on the sides, either. I'm referring to the Kadee magnets mounted according to the Kadee guide.

Has anybody painted an alternating tie-and-ballast pattern on a magnet to make it blend in better?

[SpaceMouse]

I have EZ Track so between is the way I have to go. After I cut the track and glue them in place. What can I do to make them blend in. Are the affected by paint of ballast?