To make ballasting less painful, use a small cough syrup portion cup to pour the ballast and do the sides of the track first while lightly tapping the cup to distribute the ballast. Then take a dry paintbrush and brush the ballast up toward the track sides. Then pour more directly in the center of the track with the small cup. With a dry square brush brush lightly till the tops of the ties show. Also I always spray paint my tracks beforehand with flat brown to simulate rusted rail sides. Then scrape the paint off the top easliy after it's dry. With a fine spray bottle with water and a few drops of jet dry mist the ballast before drizzling the watered down PVA glue. Bing o bango.

Hi Luke , like how the rocks turned out mate ,hey a tip for you with the ballast if you uses a foam brush that is wider than the track and sleepers and you just cut 2 groves for the track rail and you find it spreads it nicely cheers Ron.B

Really been enjoying this series, can't wait to try and make some 40k tunnels with this technique, keep up the good work!

Hey way to go Luke the Railway modeller 👌😉.........regards fred

Thank you for going into details of the rocks again. You look tired mate, get some rest!

What a load of ballast!

Glad there's a video that goes through it in depth, looks awesome and I'm glad you put it all in one ;)

1st...some how it feel good to be first poster...i follow always 10/10

Looking good, can't wait to see some green on it!! :D

Nice one I do the track ballast in the same way luke

Nice effect, I may give this a go Cheers

very amazing, loving it... but yeah you need to work on your ballasting just a bit but other then that can't wait to see the next video...

Very Beautiful "Muito Bonito" Super Legal

Why do you seal the rock face with PVA glue before applying the black wash?

From Belgium, gonna wait for your site abit more. Can't make it the 3rd tho. But have fun!

What were the three crafters choice paint colours called that you used for the rocks?

Thanks Luke .

Speaking as a model railroader, doing ballast just plan sucks. It's tedious and time consuming. I do know a few people that find it relaxing. But the vast majority of people agree with me.

Does everything have to be fully dry in order to work for this technique?

Hi, is your products a limited run series? I wanted to make a big order at geek gaming to save on P&P but most things are out of stock. Are those thing coming back sometime this year or am I too late?

Why do you always bring the new stuff out after i have ordered loads 😂, can’t wait for part 4 mate

CSX3026 is right. Ballasting track is a pain in the nethers.

How much did that all cost

Can i paint the rocks with oil paints? 3:45

us full pva for your small rocks

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