... 57 from: Andrew Duncan Hello everyone Here's a bit more detail of the ballasting I did whilst at Missenden. This is the sort of effect that I'm after generally within the station limits. So the line in the middle with dark we'll kept ballast is the main up line and from photographs appears reasonably well looked after. The coach siding( above it in the photo) and the goods yard are just ash by the look of it, up to sleeper top level and this I've found quite hard to achieve as yet. 2787_081711_350000000.jpg The photo below shows some progress since being back, with the walk way beside the carriage siding under construction made simply from Evergreen strip chopped up in my Northwest Shortlines chopper( a great tool for this sort of repetitive work). Next I need to work out how to do the road surfaces between the sidings in the goods yard which, in this scale, needs the barest minimum of texture to suggest what would have been a pretty smooth surface. Gloss paint and talcum powder have been suggested to me, so that's ...