Any hints on making cobblestone streets?

try www.digitaldioramas.com seems I saw something on that site where they use cork.Cheers! John.

Have had very good luck using 4 inch wide balsa sheets and drawing out my design and then using a pointed grinding bit in a dremal motor tool. After carving out my design I used craft paint of an earthtone color and gave the whole thing a coat. When that dried I used a lead pencil and shaded each cobblestone and finally used earthtone pastels for some weathering effects. Hope this helps!

Check this out http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=315. I hope this helps.

Great ideas folks , TY! Can always depend on the FSM forum

There are two kinds of cobblestones: round and square. The round is easy if you're doing 1/35 or 1/32 scales. Using white glue, glue dry split peas in a regular pattern (e.g., rows), leaving a small space in between. Paint appropriate color. The square ones are actually stone cubes and they are regularly shaped. I create those cobbles by pressing into soft auto putty a tool that I have made out of square brass tubing (about 3 mm square). Again, I follow regular patterns. If you want to get fancy, you can make semi-circular patterns. Many square cobbles leave no space in-between the cubes. For those, I just draw a grid with a hobby knife on nearly dry auto putty. The little nicks the knife makes give a realistic look.There are also cobblestones that are irregular in size. You'll find those in old medieval streets, castle courtyards,etc. I press a wood tool in soft auto putty making irregular patterns and shapes as well as surfaces. I paint these varying colors, as the stones would be like that.

I've tried the small pea sized HO scale stones that you can get at most hobby stores with actual grout and had excellent results. It's a tedious process like some of the others, but the results are nice.

Stephen

The pour and scribe method is pretty good. Anti skid carpet pad has a texture like cobblestone and once "grouted" is a nice option. Split peas or lentils, tedious but good. And I have used the sculpey or fimo spread thin and cut to make the individual bricks and then assembled to make the patterns. Very tedious but some of the best.

The best though is the commecialy available. It looks good, and someone else did it.

Mike

I did an effective, but very painful and time-consuming process I made up. I took my dio base and covered it with about 2mm of squad putty white. Then after it all dried I sprayed it cement-grayish with black shading and a wash. Then I took a scribing tool and scribed small irregular squares. It smelt bad and took a while, but it looks realistic!

I'd try the Plastruct

I asked the same question a couple of weeks ago....the method that i used was taking tan scupley its kinda like femo clay and rolled it flat as a sheet of construction paper and took a nail and carved out the individual cobbles and then baked it in the oven. Once it was done i sanded and am now in the process of painting so when Im done Ill give you some more info

I've never tried it, but the method using lentils is the only one I've come across - saw it on a website (Doc Dio I think). The lentils had been stuck to double-sided tape and then filled in and primed afterwards. From the photos it looked quite effective.
Hope this helps

Plastruct makes sheets of cobblestone, brick wall, roof tiles, fieldstone and other types. I buy one sheet and make rubber molds from them. When I need some, I cast a thin sheet out of water putty or plaster. There is also the trick of making cobblestones out of split-peas or lentils by gluing down a single layer of them and filling the gaps with spackle, putty or grout. Personally, I don't like this method, because they look more like peas than cobbles.