Hi does anybody know if the old Revell sand house had a prototype? Thanks in advance. Geoff building the Blue Hill and Eastern in Blue Hill Maine 

After reading a lot of different forum posts here and on other forums about the "chipping" method of weathering I'm curious if anyone on this forum has experience using any of the commercial products vs using hairspray. I know of two companies that make a "chipping solution" (Ak Interactive and Vallejo).

To me $5 or 6 for a 2 oz or so bottle of chipping fluid seems a bit high, when I can buy hairspray for about the same price and get more volume.

However, I'm willing to spend the money if someone can convince me that using these commercial products will be better than hairspray.

In the attached image, I have mocked out a road shape from my ice house across the tracks to the "outside". As you can see, it crosses two industry spurs. They are more than a standard double track distance apart. What I need to know is - would there be crossbucks at both tracks or just one pair with - maybe - "Two Tracks" on the posts? Or, maybe as they are industry spurs, no crossbucks at all?

I have managed to get quite a few little tasks done on the layout over the last few days. I painted all the ties, cut out and painted the paved areas for the Latex and Lumber Distributors, painted the road surface, and made some lumber loads.  More details and pictures in a following post.

Craig