Hey Mike. As a former proponent of cheap cat litter on this list, and now an admitted user of Woodland Scenics products, I take no offense from your remarks <g>. My days of buying brass are long past, due to the performance of my IRA! And now that I’m building a large layout, I try to cut costs wherever I can.
But cost is not the main reason that I use these materials: WS medium gray blend ballast is the closest match that I have found to the Monon’s main line, and cat litter replicates broken limestone from the southern Indiana stone quarries better than any other product. What’s more, both materials take water based paint and stain quite well: more realistically than real stone. See: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/photos/album/135944245/pic/700718699/view?picmode=&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&count=20&dir=asc To each his own. Roger Nulton From: Michael & Linda Marmer Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 4:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Rock Ballast Article (was I'm "s"old!) Hi Ed, I am not saying that Smith & Sons is not a good ballast, as my comments where not directed at that company. I do not know their product, never heard of them until today. My comment was mainly gear to the comments I hear all the time, “I use this because of the cost” and that is not directed at Roger in anyway. I just hear that all the time. People may have reasons on why they choose a lower cost product, but when I see or hear of one spending 1000s on track, engines, buildings, rolling stock, I do not understand that route. I [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
