Brick/Cut Stone Walls

[johnjpeebles]

I'm interested in learning what people normally use for their brick or cut stone wall needs.  Places I've needed cut stone, natural stone, or brick:

- retaining walls
- building foundations
- normal low walls
- dock walls

Is everyone using plaster molds, or molden sheet styrene?  I've hand carved some of the natural stone stuff I needed but that's time consuming and always seems to be vaguely out of scale.

[David K. Smith]

I confess to being a "non-hard core" modeler in this department, as I mostly use N scale Pre-Size and Chooch stone wall materials.

Here's some Pre-Size cut stone chopped up to make bridge piers:



...and some old Chooch random stone wall used for a tunnel portal and retaining wall:



I've used N scale stacked tie retaining wall material that I sliced into narrower strips and bonded back together to make it closer to Z:



For building foundations and suchlike, I laminate leftover etched brass kit walls to sheet styrene to simulate cinderblock:

[Chris333]

I use these resin sheets:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Field-Stone-Retaining-Wall-Z-Scale_W0QQitemZ120468858544QQcmdZViewItemQQptZModel_RR_Trains?hash=item1c0c80e6b0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

[johnjpeebles]

Chris - very cool and thanks for the link.  Just bought some.  I also got some Chooch walls like David uses and will probably mix/match between my N Scale and Z scale projects.