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Hi John,
Thanks for spotting my mistake! I painted the whole baseboard and track with brown emulsion paint before ballasting. The underside was covered with thin ply to cover the wiring and then the sides and underside were painted with matt black emulsion. The ballast has not been painted at all (yet!).
The tops of the rails have to be cleaned of paint and I found it better to let it dry first and it chips off easily. If you wipe off whilst it is still wet, I found that a very thin film is left which plays havoc with electrical pick up and this film is quite hard to remove.
Anyway, if you keep checking the electrical supply and point operation at every stage, you won't go far wrong.
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