I am now at a stage where I am satisfied with the track layout. I have begun ballasting the yard. I have used Woodland Scenics very fine grey ballast (code is B75) to depict the ballast used at yards. I will be airbrushing the ballast with a rusty colour as currently the ballast looks too "new".
I am pretty happy how it has come out, especially the rust of the rails against the grey ballast. I think I will also use the air-brush to do the rail sides and at the same time the ballast.
With the points, the modification I made previously unfortunately caused more issues than anything else, especially for my small wheel base locos, such as the Y and T. I have now gone back and re-soldered the jumper wires as was provided by Peco. I am not sure how secure the soldering is straight out of the factory, so anyhow I have re-soldered the jumpers under the frog to the four points that I stuffed.
I am pretty happy how it has come out, especially the rust of the rails against the grey ballast. I think I will also use the air-brush to do the rail sides and at the same time the ballast.
With the points, the modification I made previously unfortunately caused more issues than anything else, especially for my small wheel base locos, such as the Y and T. I have now gone back and re-soldered the jumper wires as was provided by Peco. I am not sure how secure the soldering is straight out of the factory, so anyhow I have re-soldered the jumpers under the frog to the four points that I stuffed.
