Dry Stone Walls

[robert]

advice and guidance please:

10 mm scale low dry stone walling

I need quite a lot of it to model areas of Northumberland - full of the stuff!

Is cat litter any good or is it too big? - don't want to buy a bag of it and find it is not suitable as I have no other use for it - unless someone knows better.

If not cat litter than any tips on how to model the walling would be greatly appreciated - unless it would be best to simply acquire several yards of the resin product from Pendraken -

LEON - any chance of a photo of your walling packs?

[Sandinista]

Try your local model railway shop, I bought a load of resin N gauge walling from the one nearest to me and even got a 10% discount as I bought all his stock.

[TinyTerrain]

Apologies to leon in advance..............

Guys no need to buy this stuff, really easy to make.

1) Cut a strip io cork tile and tear the top edge to get a ragged look.
2) Rough up all faces with sandpaper and occasionally pick chunks out using your finger nails.
3) Paint dark grey
4) Drybrush in 1 or 2 lighter colous.

Dead cheap and v easy to do. Stev J's blog has loads of shots of his tables with walls made like this:





Failling that if you want to get stupidfollow the same principle, stick to a lolly stick and then paint the individual stones, like I have here:



Using method 1 you can bang out seveal foot of walls in an evening. method 2 is somewhat slower (and was done as a practice piece as i was going to paint some stone buildings) but it depends on what you need.

Cheers, Craig
Tiny Terrain Models

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Timecast, Range 37 (about half wayto two thirds of the way down):
http://www.timecastmodels.co.uk/range_37/range_37_timecast_scenics.html

Rough stone wall: http://www.timecastmodels.co.uk/range_37/walls_1.jpg
Dressed stone wall: http://www.timecastmodels.co.uk/range_37/walls_1.jpg

[FierceKitty]

I use a card base, coated in resin and then studded with fenugreek seeds; they paint up into convincing stone. Any good Indian grocer, health food shop, or even a decent supermarket, should have them.
No use for cat litter? What about your cats?

[wargamesbob]

Craig, your method 2 walls are fabulous

Bob

[Vulpine]

Stick with no2 . Even if it takes longer it will make your table look ace and worth the grind.

[TinyTerrain]

Thanks for all the positive comments.

I have a similar view to vulpine, and a simple mantra when painting and modelling....."you only do them once, so do them as good as you can"

Cheers

Craig
Tiny Terrain Models