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Very slow progress on the last bits and pieces
Hi Joshua and John, thanks for your responses. You are both right, my intention is to make a reasonably realistic stretch of tracks, using the materials and examples I have, and that's fine with me.
Joshua, in the picture you referred to the ballast bed had not been placed yet! I've been using sand to this extent as you can see in the pictures. Put acetate glue in between and alongside the sleepers and sprinkled sand on top of it, that's basically the process. Then the rails. Like the sleepers, this has been borrowed from the F7A kit. To reinforce the bars, a core of thick cardboard has been added. Last thing to be done is to add a bit of grass and scrub effects, and paint the edges brown, similar to the stretch of tracks I built for the F7A. And then, time to shoot a few concluding pictures of the engine-sleeper combination. Won't take long....
Cheers,
Erik
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