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Basic Construct of a wall - Hunter or Hunted...

My cover material of choice is Durham Water Putty. I purchase it at Home Depot. It work just like plaster, but dries harder and stronger. Durham dries first to a leathery consistence and it then becomes very hard. While it is leathery in consistency, I work the material into bricks, rock, finished stone or whatever texture I desire. In this case, I was creating factory walls, a concrete floor and a brick street. So, the next step was to mix the Durham to a consistency of thick paste. Add a couple of drops of black acrylic paint to give it a nice dark gray coloring, because Durham fries dark yellow if not colored. Now spread it over the base and walls with a spatula or putty knife. Work in smaller batches and on small area at first until you begin to understand the feel and drying time.

As the Durham dries, I use a .05 Mechanical pencil and scale ruler to draw in the seams, concrete/cinder blocks or cracks that are required. I next carve into the Durham's with my Exacto and Engraving tools - My #1 sculpting and carving tool is a small jewelry burnisher I got at a Gem and Jewelry Craft Store. It looks like a flatten nail approximately 1/8 Inch wide and 2 inches long, ground to a smooth slightly rounded tip on a 3.5 inch handle.

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