A shelf layout emerging from a turnout

[svedblen]

Thanks Jon.
Yes, I think remember your abutments, now when you mention it. Really good. Your stones are looking better than mine. How did you do the stones?

[Santa Fe Guy]

Nice job on the stonework Lennart.
I painted a cast plaster building on my now defunct On30 layout (Lost Creek RR) but before I did I sprayed the walls with Dullcoat. This allowed me add various colours to make it look like natural sandstone instead all one colour as the paint did not soak in. It gave me time to add random colours to each block.
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Rod.

[Cajonpassfan]

Dang! That looks SO GOOD! Nice work!
Forgive the crop
Otto K.
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[svedblen]

Thanks Otto. I'm glad you like it   

[GaryHinshaw]

Man, the track looks especially good in this shot.

[svedblen]

@GaryHinshaw, thanks. Yes, fairly decent if I may say so myself 

[svedblen]

I finished my test stone wall today.



I first gave it a somewhat uneven India Ink wash, followed by some dry brushing - gray, concrete and brown colors. After this I sprayed the wall with Testors Dullcote.

I wanted part of the wall to be overgrown with moss. For moss I used Woodland Scenics T49 Blended Turf - Green Blend. I applied white glue with a small brush where I wanted the moss, and then sprinkled on the turf. I then immediately shook and blew the excess turf away.

I'm really happy with the result.

[davefoxx]

That wall looks really nice, Lennart.  I'd say your test is a success.

DFF

[peteski]

The stones look very realistic. Are walls and abutments like that built from stones just piled up on top of etch other, or is there mortar usually used?

[svedblen]

Thanks guys.

Good comment, Peteski. Abutments and walls that need to endure any kind of load would probably be using mortar of some kind. But at least here in Sweden (very) old walls without mortar can be seen. But those are mostly country side walls used to enclose pastures or likewise.

[sirenwerks]

I've seen low stone retaining walls here in Maryland along the NEC and OML and never noticed any mortar use.

[svedblen]

Inspired by the comment from @peteski about mortar, I decided I wanted to try a wall with mortar between the stones. As noted the stone wall I showed in earlier posts have stones that looks merely piled on top of each other. So I sat ought to do an additional  wall section in the same way as before, but now with spackling compound between the stones. I went about more or less as you would when applying mortar between real stones.

Once the compound had dried I proceeded as with the previous wall with an India Ink wash, some additional colouring and last some moss. Here is the finished wall.



And for comparison, alongside the one without mortar.



The second one is OK as well. It's just different. But I think I like the first one better. Could perhaps be just because I think I managed the coloring better for the first wall. But of course, it all depends on what kind of wall you want to replicate and what fits the rest of the scene.

[peteski]

Peteski gives a big thumbs-up!  The new wall looks perfect to me! 

[ednadolski]

Very nicely done!

Ed

[wazzou]

I like the first one too.  After all, stacked stone is just that.  Stacked stone. 
I've seen it done without mortar of any kind plenty of times.