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?
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.
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:
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(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3CESM3Olw-4/T9-EGqXlXMI/AAAAAAAAANU/mKi9lXEd8BI/s400/Via+Dolorosa+012.jpg)
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:
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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
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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
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?
Craig, your method 2 walls are fabulous
Bob
Stick with no2 . Even if it takes longer it will make your table look ace and worth the grind.
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
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