A number of years back, CTT ran an article on using pieces of ceiling tiles for rocks. Does anyone know what issue that was? I have been going through my files, but I cannot seem to locate it.
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I just happened to have that issue out. It’s March 2005 Build Rock Scenery from Ceiling Tiles.
Thanks! I hadn’t found it because I hadn’t got that far yet (it takes a while to go through them all).
In the same vein, I’d appreciate hearing from anyone who has used ceiling tiles and who might have additional suggestions (or warnings).
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Check out this site for a complete how-to on ceiling tile rock faces.
A guy named Frank53 has done outstanding work with ceiling tiles. Go to Lionellines.net [corrected] to see.
Chief is right but the website is LionelLines.net specifically here .
When I first saw the title to this thread, I thought that somebody was resurrecting the old MRR April Fool article about building a layout upside down on the ceiling.
I don’t have access to my pictures right now, but what I did was place the ceiling tile pieces and stack them into position. I didn’t want to dismantle the rock face once I had the look I was going for so I mixed regular white glue (I bought a gallon of it from Michaels) with saw dust that I had from cutting all the wood for the layout. This made a nice thick paste that I then coated the face with a cheap paint brush. I let this dry and it did exactly what I wanted, bonded the ceiling tiles together, smoothed out some areas and made others slightly rougher. I then proceeded to paint the face the desired color, while the paint was still wet I dashed some ground cover over the wall as well.
I will try to post the process pictures tonight.