Linka

I'm full of admiration for the folks who build those huge structures
shown on the Linka World website, they either have immense reserves of
time and patience or a truly prodigious collection of moulds!
I'm building a retaining wall with arches, in the classic style, and
thought I'd use Linka for it. Twenty spans or thereabouts, and I can
cast maybe four or five a day. I'm getting better with practice but
it's clear that the more pourable the plaster mix, the better the
result, but that also takes longer to be ready to remove from the
moulds. With a good pourable mix I reckon at least two hours before
it's safe to separate and then 24-48 hours to cure. Plastikard glued
to plywood is a lot quicker! Sadly the brick sizes are different
enough that you can't really mix the two. Never mind, modelling is as
much about the building as the finished article, eh?
On the subject of Linka, does anyone else here use it? Any handy tips
to share? The moulds never seem to be quite flat, I guess the mortar
grooves are deep enough that a very light application of wet & dry to
even things up will not do any harm.

Guy