Cinders Coarse Ballast Shaker

Clinker in a coarse grain

What is left after burning never breaks down into an even powder. Pieces of various sizes remain of it, fused into irregular lumps, and a coarse grade captures this character better than any fine material.

What it is suited to

• The dark shade of cooled clinker, markedly darker than crushed stone
• A coarse grain with an irregular shape to the individual pieces
• A package with a volume of 945 cm³, a dispensing sieve in the lid
• Intended for spoil heaps, ash pits and the fill by furnaces
• Combinable with a finer material of the same shade

It looks best where nobody would tidy up. By a boiler house, behind the wall of an engine room, around a siding into a cement works or in a place where a steam engine waited to leave for longer than was healthy. Pieces thrown about at the edge of the area round the impression off.

It pays off to do the shaping in parts. Pour out a little heap, work it into the profile you want and fix it straight away, and only then go on. A large area worked all at once usually ends up with edges that slid down before the glue got to them.

Add contrast at the end. A few lighter grains scattered among the dark stone suggest a piece of limestone or rock that got here along with the waste, and the surface stops looking artificially uniform.

The material holds dust, so do not blow it off with compressed air before fixing. The fine particles would settle on the models around and could be removed only with difficulty.