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What is chipping medium?
Posted in: Painting
22nd January 2020
Chipping medium is a weathering agent that creates chipped surfaces to give a more realistic look to your models. It...
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What is the smallest radius Peco curve for N gauge?
Posted in: Tracks
27th May 2022
The tightest N gauge Setrack curve presently produced by Peco is a first radius curve (228 mm radius).Getting to...
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How to safely strip enamel paint from a model?
Posted in: Painting
14th January 2025
Stripping enamel paint from a model can seem like a delicate process, but with the right tools and techniques, it's...
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What is a pin vice?
Posted in: Assembling and gluing
19th April 2019
A pin vice is a small hand held twist drill with a number of uses. Mainly used for drilling small holes, it can hold...
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What is an electrical relay?
Posted in: Power and control
14th December 2020
Electrical relays perform so many different tasks that it would be very difficult to definitively say that a relay...
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What coarseness of ballast should I use for an O gauge layout?

For O gauge the best ballast would have to be coarse as this has much larger stone chips than fine or medium grade ballast and would be more in keeping with the scale of your layout.

Keep in mind that O gauge is 1/43 scale in the UK and 1/48 outside the UK. So if you were to measure the size of a ballast stone from the real thing, you would have to reduce the size by 48 to have the scale size.

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