Kathy knows: grout is the answer

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Saw this on YouTube, told Terri: "I bet it's grout".

Three seconds in and I had to do an impression of the MLG air horn.

Anyway, a pro knows what's up. Check it out.

[Maletrain]

Ed, what do you do if you use tile grout for ballast and then find that you need to take up the track for some reason?

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Dynamite.

[Chris333]

I would think grout would be much better if you mixed 2 or 3 very similar colors so it wasn't all one tone. Maybe drybrush it later to add some high lights. I like finding spots with very fine dirt and collecting a bunch.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I would think grout would be much better if you mixed 2 or 3 very similar colors so it wasn't all one tone. Maybe drybrush it later to add some high lights. I like finding spots with very fine dirt and collecting a bunch.

Blending works well. I've done that a bunch.
I think about the individual colors as pigments.