Brick or stone, wall moulds?

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Hi,

I’m looking for either large brick moulds or cut stone moulds to cast my own stones with. Or wall moulds. Either cut stone, concrete or brick. I want to cast them using plaster and since I like to paint and do these things myself and save money at the same time I prefer to cast them rather then buying ready made walls from Woodland scenics and so on.

So any suggestions on where I can get them? I’ve searched but so far I’ve not been able to find any.

Something like this is what I’m looking for:

http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/785-1259

Thanks,

Magnus

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Two suggestions:

  1. Buy one, make a mold, cast to your hearts content. As long as you don’t sell them, there should be no problems.

  2. Cast a plain block of plaster. Scribe on the pattern you want, then make a mold from that.

Good luck,

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Bragdon Enterprises has quite a few really nice molds: www.bragdonent.com.

I have a few rock wall molds I got from Dave Frary, www.mrscenery.com. I ran into Dave at the Springfield show this past January, and asked about the molds, since people occasionally inquire about them. He has sold his mold-making business. He told me who bought them, but I can’t find my notes on that. So, maybe you can contact him and see if he can tell you. I really like the molds, and still use them from time to time.

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Thanks for the tips and links. I like thos Bragdon enterprises moulds. Gonna have to check that site better later tonight.

Magnus

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Magnus,

Conrad in Germany also offers various types of molds, for brick walls, rock walls etc. Ordering from them may be a little bit more convenient.

You can check there offerings here.

Unfortunately, the web page is available only in German, but shipping can be done world-wide.

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Hi Magnus. I made a rock wall for a church scene just as stated above:

Stripwood frame and hydrocal…

Scribed individual stones and painted…

Added mud spatters on the bottom, some weeds as well…

Then installed…

Matt

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If you do cast and cut/ scribe a “master” as done above, you will have better success crehttp://cs.trains.com/trccs/search/SearchResults.aspx?q=RTV+molds&o=Relevanceating your mold using the 2 part casting silicon RTV over latex. Search the forum, an excellent link was given a few weeks ago on this same casting procedure. Some forum links http://cs.trains.com/trccs/search/SearchResults.aspx?q=RTV+molds&o=Relevance

http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/p/89636/1058877.aspx#1058877

http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/p/144837/1607885.aspx#1607885

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Thanks a lot for that. There is a swedish Conrad.se but that doesn’t seem to have the moulds strangely enough. My german isn’t that great so I can not tell how much shipping is to Sweden?

TMagnus

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You might want to take a look at THIS, Magnus.

Wayne