BosKonay

Me neither I've decided on Gaugemaster ballast for the trackwork, it looks most like the wet, dark grey stuff I see on the tracks. I'll then use woodlands grey and brown for gravel (like the patch above between the tracks (which will later be filthied up, dead bushes, some brown grass, etc) and unused sidings, etc.

Playing with Gravel and Ballast

Just Wow!

http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/491-Bachmann-Midland-Pullman

Can't find any pricing anywhere as yet!

Great vid Anthony - thanks a mil - looks brilliant!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj1Yww_y3Ok

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Cheers Anthony - will check that out!

Top / left is Gaugemaster Bottom / right is Woodlands. Any opinions (bear in mind the woodlands is wet, I assume it will dry a little darker)

Here is a photo of the Gaugemaster covered siding

Having a little bit of track to ballast, I've been experimenting with a few options, and would be grateful for the insight of fellow members! Initially, I did a siding with Gaugemaster http://www.gaugemaster.com/item_details.asp?code=GM114&style=&strType=&Mcode=Gaugemaster%20GM114 It went down well, looks like irish ballast (being multi coloured natural granite) and took the glue from the dropper without movement, bubbling, etc. Next, I tried Woodlands Scenic's Grey Blend. This went down ok, but didn't cover as well as the Gaugemaster, and trying to dropper glue resulted in bubbles and the gluw rolling off the ballast. I next tried to spray the ballast with 'wet' water, which resulted in clumping and the whole thing looking like muck a little I droppered the glue in anyway, and will photo both sidings once everything is dry in 24 hours. Just wondering what other's ballast experience has been - from my tests, I think I'll be going with the gaugemaster for the rest...

Amen Master!

Exactly

Yea, but looking at the videos and photos, you'd -have- to have the pullman too!!! Maybe we need to start a lotto syndicate

That the Dapol little hoover - does it work?

The layman's version is 'It should now be a wee bit faster and able to handle more people at once'

There's no amount of technical wizardry will fix that I'm 'fraid

No one counting

Ok all done For those technically minded, the server is now running NGINX to handle all the PHP and dynamic stuff, and Varnish CACHE on the server also. Based on third party tests, the home page load time has gone from an average of 3 seconds to 1.2 seconds, and the cpu and ram usage has dropped by half If you spot anything banjaxed, let me know Otherwise, hopefully, things should be a little nippier from now on.