Pictures of brick and stone walls

Model Railroader Layouts and layout building
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I have an area on my HO layout that I would like to place stone walls. The area is very narrow and was considering placing pictures of stone walls on cardboard stock and placing them next to the tracks. I have used the plaster stone walls made by Woodland Scenics but these would be too thick for this area. I was wondering if there is any free downloads of scenery pictures of any type of walls available on the internet. Thanks for your help anyone.

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Try this site:

http://www.cgtextures.com/

They have all sorts of pictures of surfaces, high quality and free to download.

Another possibility is getting some molds and casting your own. I have several of these. With a bit of care, you can pour the plaster (I use Hydrocal) and wait until it “sets up” but isn’t solid yet. Then you can carefully shape the mold around a form to make curved walls. I did this one for a turntable pit wall:

The mold was from Dave Frary at www.mrscenery.com. He no longer lists these in his online catalog, but he may still have some. Send him an e-mail. I’ve found other molds at train shows, but these by Dave are my favorites.

Bragdon Enterprises at www.bragdonent.com also has a few stone wall molds. These are very high-quality molds and will make beautiful castings, either with the Bragdon foam or with plaster.

3

I tried that with a stone wall and was really unhappy with the end result. I took it back out and used a product from Scenic Express.

I have, on the other hand, used photographs for walls and floors in my subway stations with better results.

4

Have you tried a piece of extruded foam cut to size, then draw in the stone texture with a pen tip or similar tool. Paint and wash to suit what you want. Thin pieces are quite flexible.

Also, Micro-Mark and I presume Walthers have stone textured sheets.

Good luck,

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Definitely checkout cgtextures.com you can download up to 15MB per day of free high resolution images; a number of which are tiled so you can create wider or higher prints. If nothing there suits, try scalescenes.com they sell quality PDF files with brick, stone, etc. textures.

Alan