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Rattle can of rustoleum camoflauge brown.   I stole the idea from Ken Patterson on youtube.  Looks great when done, hides the feeder wires pretty well.  YMMV I painted the subroadbed after the roadbed was in place.  I picked a "dirt color" from the local homedepot, and got the cheapest indoor flat latex paint (low voc).  I also used the latex paint to adhere the base coat of ground foam on a section.  This is actually seems to work pretty well, and saves a whole step of putting down a layer of white glue (the paint becomes the glue). The poor guy at the paint counter was trying to sell me the expensive stuff, and couldnt fathom why I wanted the cheapest paint possible...until I explained why... [quote user="richhotrain"]Never having painted rail, I just assumed that the most common approach was to spray everything at once, rail, roadbed and subroadbed, and all one color. I like the idea of painting the subroadbed (the plywood surface) first, then laying the cork and painting it the color of the eventual ballast, then lay down rail and hand brush paint it.[/quote] IMO Hand painting the rail is a huge pain, and takes a really long time. (Ive done this).  Painting the ballast has little to no benefit, since you are covering it with ballast.   Most recently when I handlaid some code 100 track, I rattlecanned my recycled flex track with the rustoleum paint, then stripped the liquid nails filled ties off and spiked the rail down.
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