 Now you can have great-looking ballasted track that you can finish in record time. Ballast Bond liquid adhesive. It works for any scale. The traditional method is to use white glue diluted with water. You generally will find that the PVA water mix will ball up the dry ballast, creating an awful mess. To solve this, you need to pre-wet the dry ballast. Furthermore, it takes some skill to avoid getting everything wet or to not disturb your carefully manicured dry ballast while pre-wetting. So why take the risk? Now Ballast Bond from Deluxe Materials rewrites the rulebook and offers a rapid solution with convincing and reliable results time after time with all types of ballast. Ballast Bond is a super-thin, free-flowing liquid adhesive that bonds ballast and other ground cover materials. Ballast Bond is safe and non-harmful. It comes ready mixed and ready to use straight out of the bottle. And what's more, it comes with this handy applicator that allows you to apply it just where you want it. Ballast Bond is designed specifically for bonding ballast material, unlike PVA, which is designed for gluing wood. And above all, the free-flowing capillary action means it will bond granular materials without disturbing your careful placement. Now let's see Ballast Bond in action with two types of ballast. You can quickly ballast your track in a few simple steps without the need for any pre-wetting. First, on ballast made from crushed stone, such as sifted paversand, or ballast from Arizona rock and mineral, you don't need to pre-wet. Ballast Bond just wicks right into the dry ballast. Woodland Cinex Ballast, a lightweight nutshell-based material, tends to ball up or float when using any water-based adhesive. But we have a way to solve this with Ballast Bond. The trick is to mix Ballast Bond in a ratio of two parts Ballast Bond to one part 70% isopropyl alcohol, or IPA. Now apply this custom Ballast Bond IPA mixture to the dry Woodland Cinex Ballast. As you can see, it wicks in the way Ballast Bond wicks into conventional ballast made from real stone. Now just to be sure, we checked that there was no loss of adhesion after a few hours with the set-up ballast. The Woodland Cinex Ballast set-up just as well as the Stone Ballast. Ballast Bond comes in a three and a half ounce bottle, or in a 17 and a half ounce refill bottle. The three and a half ounce bottle will bond three and a half square feet of ballast. The 17 and a half ounce bottle will bond one and a half to two and a half square yards of ballast. Deluxe Materials Rocket Applicator Glue Tip Part Number AC-20 is also available separately to aid pinpoint application. Ballast Bond is distributed to all good hobby shops through our international distributed network, including Horizon Hobby, Walters, and Hobby Time in North America. Ask for Deluxe Materials Ballast Bond by name in your local hobby shop. Deluxe Materials Limited, the strength inside your model. Passionate about finding new and better solutions to modeling tasks. Deluxe Materials would like to give a special thanks to Joe Fugate of MRH Media.