Generic earth ground cover
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I used to be indecisive but now I'm not sure.
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it was already on fire when I got here, honest!
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I used to be indecisive but now I'm not sure.
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I'm a fan of using different colours of earth (soil) on layouts. I too slow cook the soil then sieve it to a very fine dust, through a fine tea strainer. I use my 'soil' as a base for other scenic scatters to go on top. In the link below, you will see that a differnt colour is used for the road. This is the fine dust that is sieved out of crusher dust or road base.
See here : http://yourmodelrailway.net/view_topic.php?id=12116&forum_id=21&page=2#p213052
Cheers, Gary.
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Have you tried Chinchilla dust which, is available in two colours, Grey/Brown and Sand from most pet stores. It's fine, weed and vermin free, ideal for road, path or platform surfaces and looks very effective. An added bonus is that a small bag goes a very long way!
John.
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PS Gary, run a magnet through your road dust, you may be surprised just how much metallic 'muck' there is in there…
Doug
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