Stone walls

Stone walls were very prevelant throughout the Balkans and I've seen pics of them in Italy too.  When you start your construction, perhaps this will help -

http://modelgeek.kitmaker.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=2183

 

razorboy

razorboy wrote:

Stone walls were very prevelant throughout the Balkans and I've seen pics of them in Italy too.  When you start your construction, perhaps this will help - http://modelgeek.kitmaker.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=2183   razorboy

razorbot, that is a brilliant method! The only thing I would say to improve it maybe a little but would be to use thicker craft glue--white glue--to help fill in some of the larger spaces between the rocks. If you look at some rock walls, they have earth and dirt between them, especially at the lower levels, where they catch leaves, litter, and whatnot that the wind blows up against it. You can even push little balls of tinted Cellucaly into the bottom peices and give it a somewhat more robust character.

Having traveled Europe extensively, I'll see if I can get some photos of fields and walls up here in a little bit...I've got some photos, I believe? 

Here's my method... I use pebbles that I sweep up in the street (not too many round ones there)... I glue a section together with CA (the tedious part), making it about 1 1/2" high x 4" long (measuring with the Mk I Eyeball) to make a master.  Then I fill the spaces with white glue, or sometimes automotive body filler (i.e. Bondo).  I press the master into a block of modeling clay, that I've rolled and flattened with a 2-inch dowel-section, 1/2 way to make the female mold and do the same thing with the other side. and fill it with plaster.   The clay makes several sections before it needs to be rolled out and flattened again, and you can cast as many sections as you want.   If you wanted to, you could get some oven-bake clay for a more permanent mold set, but for me, modeling clay works just fine, and is cheaper.