Anyone made a stone wall?

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I'm thinking of building a stone wall on my small layout. This stone wall will divide a field in two in order to give a rationale as to way the ground cover is so different. The real reason for this difference in ground cover is 4 ½ years old and helped me with the ground turf.

I imagine that a stone wall in N ought to consist of small sand grains or pebbles about 1 - 3mm (0.04-0.12 inch). I have been thinking of making two mixes of glue and sand particles. One with grains approx 3 mm and another with grains approx. 1mm. Then pouring the first mix in a mould, letting it set and then pouring the second glue/sand mix on top.

Anyway, the question is if anyone has made a stone wall and has any hints.

/Peter

Edit: When I think about it, perhaps ballast would be a good material.




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stone wall

Hi Peter, The size is about 1 to 2.5 mm equivalent to stones between 16 and 40 cm, and the width of the wall would be about 50 cm (that is approximately the size of the one around my house). I haven't actually used the pebbles for a wall, but as filling under tracks, to give the tracks a solid structure under the ballast. I used small pebbles from sifted dirt, dropped them through the track to pile up and after wetting them with a water alcohol mixture, used a 50% mixture of water and glue to bind them; your idea of placing the glue-pebble mixture in a mold sounds good, maybe directly on the scene, but the question would be, what to use as a mold to avoid the glue sticking to it.




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stone wall printable from PC
Does anyone know a website with downloadable brick and stone textures that one could print?  I raised the back eight inches of my westside part of town back of the diesel servicing area (got the idea from Kalmbach's Builidng City Scenery book).  I plan to put in a retaining wall, and the easiest (and cheapest) method I could think of was using simple cardboard with stonework printed on paper.  The author of the Kalmbach book did the same, although he used commercial paper, plus he uses HO scale.  I would prefer to find something I can print for just the cost of ink and paper.  This hobby is ghastly spendy in the areas we can't skimp, so I am always looking for areas where I can get good results to next to zero dollars.
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Ron, try this link. There

Ron, try this link. There may be more on our link section at the top of the nScale.net page.  This is a link I use a lot.

http://www.cgtextures.com/


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Jimmi:

 Wow, that is outstanding!  Not just brick and stone, but wood, water, skies, buildings, etc.  Thanks a ton for pointing me in the right direction.


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what to use as a mold to avoid the glue sticking to it.

Lego blocks work well for all kinds of casting mold forms.

A thin coat of petrolium jelly (Vasoline?) works well for a release agent and it it is easy to remove with soap and water or alcohol.




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Take a look at these.........

....molds at:

http://www.bragdonent.com/smpic/item2.htm

 

Have fun.

Moose




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The scratchbuildersguild

The scratchbuildersguild website has a nice article on creating a stone foundation - a technique that could be modified to suit - best of luck!

http://www.scratchbuildersguild.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22:greeley-bab-dormitory&catid=19:scratch-builds&Itemid=114 




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Thanks Jimmi & Michael.Two

Thanks Jimmi & Michael.

Two excellent links.

Jimmi, I'll make use of the textures on some of my ramps.

Michael, I'll spend a good bit of time pursuing the scratch-builders site.

See ya

Ron


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I'd just like to reiterate

I'd just like to reiterate the thanks for Jimmi and Michael. Those two sites are pure gold.

And I'm not even the one building a stone wall!

 If you are planning on casting, I'd suggest using a silcone mold.  There's a wide variety available, depending on your needs, etc. Not much sticks to silcone, save silicone itself.

I usually use Smooth-on products -- they're high quality and available locally for me:

http://www.smooth-on.com/liqrubr.htm

 


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