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What is the difference between a train set and a layout?
Posted in: Model Railway
21st February 2020
The knowledge that we acquire when building our model railway layouts leaves us with no doubt about the difference...
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What is a fiddle yard?
Posted in: Model Railway, Tracks
3rd March 2020
We often hear modellers refer to their "fiddle yard", but unless you already know what one is, the name doesn't...
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How to make realistic trees?
Posted in: Design and Planning, Scenery
31st October 2019
If you do not want to buy pre-made trees, which these days look very realistic, you can get tree armatures which are...
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How do I clean brushes used with enamel paint?
Posted in: Painting
3rd April 2019
Enamel paint is solvent based, so trying to wash in water will not work, you need to use white spirit. It is...
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What is the Great Western Railway Roundel?
Posted in: Model Railway
10th August 2021
The Great Western Railway Roundel is a logo used by the GWR on locomotives and rolling stock between 1934 and 1942....
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What coarseness ballast should I use for my OO scale railway?

Ballast comes in varying degrees in coarseness, fine medium and coarse.

For OO scale the most realistic would have to be medium. OO gauge is 1/76 scale so measure a few ballast stones and multiply the size by 76 to check whether it would be correct in real life.

Although there is nothing to say that you cannot use any of the others on your layout.

You could use coarse ballast in your quarry scene to represent ballast to be broken down and fine ballast on the quarry floor to represent fragments.

Use all three types of ballast to create wagon loads.

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