Matt
  
  Those moulds and walls are brilliant.

  The colour is the easiest part to sort out, the shape and texture however are the hard bits.


  Well done Matt keep it up
  
  Kev

Matt,
  looks like you've got yourself a real winner here.Any chance of some new
moulds for your N gauge colleagues??? :wink:

cheers,John.B.

Fantastic looking moulds there Matt.  As good as anything I've seen from the big companies.

re the colours, I agree, it is a stone wall and should be grey/buff or even a sooty black/dark grey  from the steam days.

Are you selling the moulds yet ?

Petermac

i have taken on board what people have said, i had a play today with some grey :D  and some pastels. here are the results









i am happy with the way they turned out, again thoughts please :wink:

next i will make a butt rest to fit at the joins and then do the opposite wall then ballast.

i have also been tinkering with the castings so i can make moulds easier. the butt rests were causing problems :twisted:  they are a T shape (end view)so when applying the latex you had to go under the lip. the problem with this is latex is air drying. so you need to adds thin layers otherwise the latex will not set. i have sanded the back of the butt rest so it will fit flush on the wall. it will also be quicker to make the mould and also easier to cast the butt rest.

Now you are cooking with gas Matt. To my eyes they really look the part. Great work and well worth the extra effort.

Excellent result, Matt, those re-painted walls are the biz :!:  :!:
i've still got to make mine (and apoligise for the delay :oops:  :oops: ), but your results are most encouraging.
I'm hoping to finish my wiring this week (see your control panel thread and then I'll get chance to do some casting.

Good grief what a difference :!:  Looks like natural weathered stone now,very realistic :D

Matt, you cracker they look great,what a difference.
 :o  :o   :wink:      8)

Superb :!:

 Mike

brilliant
Phill

Matt

The repaint looks great to me it now looks the correct scale for a stone wall and the colour looks correct for that type of material.

cheers Brian.W

Now that you have the colour right Matt, can I order one about 4ft long :?:

(But I think I have as much of chance of that as I have of getting the trees I ordered from Marty & Gwentrail)

Very good, Matt.

Like the way you thought outside the box to get a curved wall, they have come out very well indeed.
If they are going to be inside a tunnel I wouldn't spend too much more time on them, buttresses to hold them all together nice and neatly and detail around the entrance and exit and that would be about it I would think.

Brilliant Matt - now they look the business.  Just what I'm looking for on my Lanacshire/Yorkshire borders layout with all those "Dark satanic mills" !!

Petermac

They look a lot better now ,just the job :)

You've cracked it Matt. Now you're in business. :D

Les

thanks for the comments :D

i know this is a tunnel and you wont be able to see inside from normal viewing angle but, i wanted to detail parts like this to create a complete scene. if i place a camera at the entrance of the tunnel i can shoot into the tunnel. also you can now get cameras that mount onto a loco so you have a drivers view.  how many people now detail areas that cannot be seen? jut in case you get the camera out :wink: i am on lates this week but i will try and get the butt rests in.

Call me thick guys but i have just realised what a collection of moulds i have to test and i have just looked at them more closely. You could make a great little farm with the stone walling and also a nice touch is the mould of a stone wall and instead of it being a full wall, part of it is missing as thou broken and so you could say have sheep or chickens escaping over the wall. A worth while investment for someone i would say. I have had a  look around the net and shops off late and have seen nothing like it so far. A clever move by Matt, has he hit the hole in the market regards this topic, will he remember us when he is a millionaire  :D  :D
When i get the chance this week and get some plaster that sets in 30 mins, so Matt says  :)  i shall make a little scenery of the stone wall around a cottage and also footpaths. So be done in a week or so.
Phill

Is this scenery going on the layout Phill?

No i just do a little diarama Bob. Thought i get flat piece of cardbord and lay the cottage etc on there just to show how it would look.
Phill