Fellow modelers,

I would like to know if anyone here can identify the building blocks / stones used to fabraicate the housing sturctures behind the Tiger I. The model is Dragon's 72nd scale Initial Production Tiger I build by Robin Buckland featured on the "Small Scale Models" forum over at the Military Modeling website.



Any assistance regarding information for obtaining these blocks / stones would be very much appreciated. Also any suggestions for a simular building block would be of help. Robin built the generic sturctures to take photos of any small scale model, as he put it "just to make it a little more interesting". He mentions that the stone blocks are real stone, cut into small pieces and recalls that it was sold as a modeling set (Stonecraft) for model railways. I have searched the Internet without any luck of finding them?

-Eddy

It looks like he made them himself from cork sheet.
Nice model and building.

He said they're stone? They look to random in my opinion and there is a subtle bow in the seam lines between the windows.

If they are they may be custom cut. I took a detail patchwork piece of bathroom tile and broke it up into individual cobbles. The piece was 4"x6" with tons of 1/2"square pieces on a backing piece. I pealed them off and glued them the way I wanted to.

Try home improvement stores, Rail Road layout stores, or even fish stores. The small gravel in the bottom of fish tanks could be the starting point. They would be the right size for 1/72.

There is a stuff called "Keramiplast" respectively "Keramistone" from "HobbyTime" that has the right color. Basically a clay-like substance that hardens when in contact with air and could be formed/cut before that.

In germany you can find that in many hobby shops and even in DIY shops, can't say about the US, For pictures

Eddy have you tried some of the dolls house supply sites as im sure they sell this sort of stuff for people who want to build there own dolls house brick by brick, i remember coming across something similar when looking for wall paper prints on a dolls house site.

Steve

Re-read you post

ModelExpo has a couple of the Domus Mosaics kits consisting of stone bricks.

They make a lot more kits than Model Expo is carrying. Try doing a google for Domus Mosaics kits.

Scott,

Thanks for the great suggestions I'll begain my search this coming weekend . . . fish tank gravel, humm.

Mmeier,

Very interesting stuff that "Keramistone" with lots of possibilities. Thanks for the link.

Steve,

Thanks for the doll house suggestion, did find some good leads on the Internet.

Dave,

Domus Mosaics kits mite just be the material used to create the structures in the backround in the photo that I posted.

Thanks for the quick responses and for a little of your time and interest.

-Eddy

Having used the Keramiplast stuff a bit:

+ Has a consistency somewhere between chewing gum and well worked clay
+ It takes quite a while to harden, at least 30 minutes for thin layers
+ For storage it's enough to wrap the leftovers in a plastic bag

+ Normally it's dry and not very sticky
+ Wetting it allows for working it like clay and "smearing" it for level surface
+ Once hard it can be softened again by applying water
+ Tries medium-hard, can be cut by a saw

+ Takes acrylic paint quite well
+ Relatively light-weight

Home made brick but nor sure which type of material used for made them......anyone have any idea.Look Nice


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