Has anyone built anything using the concept from Stoneworks? They use real stone and concrete patch to build G Scale structures. I was thinking about building a bridge and abutements using this system and wanted to get advice on others experiences. Additionally, did you find the stone locally or order from them.
Thank you,
Christian
Does this count?
I bought the wheel and the stone from them. Very nice people to deal with.
You can see more at my web site, and there’s also a link on their site.
It was great fun building it, and one of the few buildings I don’t have to worry about!
Wow, that stone building is beautiful!
Bruce, nice work!
What Bruce has done is much better than i could possibly do.
I di have a Jigstones kit and i got the lead off this column and it has serbved me well. I have made a 5 m 17 span viaduct, various pylons, abutments as well as tunnel portals all look good and work 100 %.
It is quite time consuming and has some technical problems to do with adhesive but it i working for me.
Rgds Ian
You’d be surprised Ian. It’s not that hard!
I built a few buildings with small stones and wood when I was younger. I haven’t tried the kits but they look great.
underworld
aka The Violet
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I think Joat put a thread at MLS about how he built it.
But much more detail on my own web site: http://www.jbrr.com/
Hello Christian
I don’t know if this is of use, but I built a viaduct from celcon blocks clad with small pieces of kitchen tile cut using an electric tile saw. There’s a photo sequence of how it all happened, at
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cetucker/gardenrail/viaduct.htm
Cheers
Clive
PS I agree that is a beautifully-built mill house[8D]
Today I built a miniature retaining wall on my railroad using native stone cut roughly into squarish shapes. It was built in situ, to fill a gap between two large stones and provide support for the track. I started by making a “base” out of patching cement, troweled into rough shape.
After this hardened, I troweled on a thin layer of patch cement and simply pressed the stones into it. Occasionally I would brush water over the surface, which helped smooth the cement that was squeezing between the stones. It also helped to clean excess cement off the stones.
Once the stones were in place and the “mortar” had hardened, I brushed it with a stiff bru***o clean off the stones better. The end result turned out well. I’ll post some pics in a couple days.
BTW, I also made some concrete abutments and completed another small trestle!
Can the kits be used with flat stones? Like slate or field stone???
underworld
aka The Violet
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