Model Railway 09 A Paint Job & Turnout Servo Drive
40We experimented with several rail bed and ballast options. We don’t plan to ballast the tracks 100%, which we know looks best, but we’re not that much into scenery and 100% ballasting is going to be a whole lot of work. We think we found a reasonable good looking compromise that’s a lot less work and which also doesn’t require a second layer of cork under the tracks to elevate it.
The only thing needed is to paint the cork in a dark brown / rusty color, to which later maybe some spots and streaks of a darker almost black color can be added to taste. So … that’s what has been done past week, the cork has been painted with a Palissander stain.
The first track pieces and turnouts have been placed too, accurate to the mm. The video shows how we drive the turnouts with a servo motor mounted on an aluminium U profile.