Stone Walls

[beiland]

I am seriously considering putting stone walls on the edges of the ramps on the upper level of my layout. I'm figuring some type of random field stone. or random granite stone ,...perhaps like this

Its going to be utilized here,...
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Its been suggested I use some flexible stone materials like those produced by Chooch

I would recommend one of the Chooch flexible stone wall sheets. It's thin and easily mounted on 1/8" hobby plywood, or whatever, which solves the issue of taking up too much space. There are several styles and sizes available including cut stone. It's self-adhesive, but a word of caution; the ends curl and are extremely hard to flatten out and you need more glue than the self-adhesive backing to make them fit flat. Glue and clamp the material to the backing surface (plywood in my case) before installing the wall on the layout.

So 2 questions initially:
1) Anyone with personal experience gluing these materials to backing substrates?
2) Anyone have some unused materials they might want to sell?

 

[PRR Modeler]

In the past I have used a hot glue gun to attach Chooch flexible walls.

 

[beiland]

Did you use some sort of backing 'plate' or structure?

 

[beiland]

Here is where I am thinking of using some stone wall material,

.........on this ramp of track (behind the cryogenic scene) going up to the coal mine)

...and here on the track going up to the bridge over the logging pond,

So as you can see I may need a fair amount of wall material,...

 

[PMW]

Here's a Chooch product I hot glued around a 1"x 4". Chooch walls are 3D so have nice texture, not just printed on paper

 

[logandsawman]

If it turns out like your example, will be very attractive when you are done.

Agreed that the Chooch puts a lots of texture in their rubbery material. I did have some difficulty getting it to stick well, I have mainly been using it as the foundation for buildings, and sometimes find it pulling away at the corners. I used CCA glue. I may try the hot glue gun.

Dave LASM

 

[PMW]

If it turns out like your example, will be very attractive when you are done.

Agreed that the Chooch puts a lots of texture in their rubbery material. I did have some difficulty getting it to stick well, I have mainly been using it as the foundation for buildings, and sometimes find it pulling away at the corners. I used CCA glue. I may try the hot glue gun.

Dave LASM

I hot glued one side at a time and used wood clamps until set up. The corners are pretty tight and then there's always scenery to hide what needs to be hiden

 

[KB02]

You might find this video interesting if you're looking to do a full retaining wall: