Adding a sand tower to the yard of my N scale layout. Question: what passes as sand in N Scale?
Thx.
In scale, or something you can still see as gritty…but it will be about four or five times too large?
I would seriously look at making up a wood surface repair putty, which is about the right colour for some applications as a stand-in for sand, and glop it into place, smooth it, and let it dry. It should be pretty good, and it’ll take some tinting if it doesn’t look quite right when it dries.
-Crandell
JGray.
I work for a sand and gravel producer and can size material as needed. On my HO scale gravel plant and open hopper loads I used silt from our pond. Looks just about right in HO scale. For N scale I would just paint spots of spilled sand. For piles you can mound some plaster mixed with some sand colored paint. When it sets it will be the color of your sand.
The Buffalo Creek open hopper has the silt load. The Alcoa cars have 1/6 inch stone that sizes out to about 6 to 8 inch rip rap.
Pete
Tile grout with a coat of weathering powder is about the best I’ve seen.
There are some textured paints in rattle cans from Krylon and Rust-o-lem that might work. There is one that if I remember correctly is called “sand” but I can’t remember which one makes it.
Good luck,
Richard
Rustoleum makes a number of these. If they don’t have one specifically called “Sand,” they’ve got one that will work. Do not get the “multicolor” or “speckled” ones for this application, though. They have a coarse grain that would not look right in N scale.