In the world of scale modelling, greeblies (or "greebles") refer to small, intricate details you add to your models...
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What coarseness of ballast should I use for an O gauge layout?
For O gauge the best ballast would have to be coarse as this has much larger stone chips than fine or medium grade ballast and would be more in keeping with the scale of your layout.
Keep in mind that O gauge is 1/43 scale in the UK and 1/48 outside the UK. So if you were to measure the size of a ballast stone from the real thing, you would have to reduce the size by 48 to have the scale size.
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