Stone wall sculpting

Sarah, Stone work looks great!  I have always seen FIMO in the stores here. Wondered how it works. Hope you can send updates on this project.

-Tom

Sarah, FIMO is a clay is it not?  Like Tom Q Fan, I've seen it at Hobby Lobby and have always wanted to try it but didn't know how to use it what it was actually fore.  Your stone work looks really nice and I like the way it is coming out.  Please keep us posted and keep up the good work.

Nice work Sarah  

Another technique: This doll house chimney had a sticky back stencil.   The stencil was applied then a stucco like material mixed with white glue was applied.  Before the mixture hardened, the stencil was removed. 

Brick was done the same.  If the paste material dried too fast, it was difficult to remove the stencil.  Mortar color is paint applied before the stencil.   

Outstanding keep us posted!!!😊

Terrific; always great to see a different medium being used. You are a real artist.

Thanks for posting this and yes by all means, please keep us in the loop... 

Mark in Oregon

Sarah, that appears to be a lot of work with the scribing and texturing but the result is so totally worth it.  It looks great.  What color are you going for with the stone?  Will you be painting the mortar or using the FIMO color?

Now that is very interesting, using a dental tool for fine working, awesome. Quite some time ago I had told one of my coworkers I saw a video of a person using ceiling tiles for shale rock layers. He was amazed and said only a model railroader would see a use for something like that(complimenting a job well done). Thumbs up Sarah.

Great bunch of ideas, and great work Sarah!!

Sarah,

Looks great.

You may want to consider making a latex mold of that piece as the original. Then, you can cast as many copies as you need with a plaster such as Hydrocal.

Jim

Jim, That sound like a great way to make several wall sections.

-Tom

Thanks for the comments! We‘ll see how everything turns out at last. Meanwhile I built a skeleton for the clay starting eith a tower section of the depot.

Sarah, tower skeleton looks great. How will you attach the clay stones?

-Tom

Wondering if you have worked on your depot recently.  I once had a set of leather working tools some of the texturing tools would be handy for sculpting FIMO.          j

This bridge was hand carved into plaster that was laid over the foam structure and then painted.  This is some shots of it in process.  This was all done by Harry Henning III.

Here's the finished product.

Amazing work John! Do you have something like that coming to your layout?

Not unless I can get Harry to spend about a month in my basement and carve it!   He spent a lot of time detailing that monster!

My progress on the depot is on halt because of a more pressing project - need to fit a 1:1 scale roof on a building as soon as possible :-)

Thanks for the great pictures! I‘ll keep you guys informed. 

Nice work on the stone sculpting. A while back, I posted some pics of an experimental stone wall project using stacked sections of dry wall. The stone texture is already there when the dry wall is scored and snapped.

Sarah posted:

My progress on the depot is on halt because of a more pressing project - need to fit a 1:1 scale roof on a building as soon as possible :-)

Well, the rainy season is coming, so a new roof seems to be a good idea!

Do you have a 1:1 locomotive to park near that building?