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Retaining walls

Hornby did some acceptable brick retaining walls in the Skaledale range but typical of my luck they are withdrawn and unobtainable.

I need to build a 4mm/OO retaining wall about 1.5m long and rising from 100mm to 125mm then falling to 25mm (approx). Who else does something likely? Any ideas? Guy

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Just zis Guy, you know?
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Jane Sullivan

Thanks, I should have mentioned: I bought some of theirs a while back, they were rather disappointing - basically foam embossed with overscale bricks. Resin casting allows for a much finer brick. Guy

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Just zis Guy, you know?

Brick or stone?

If stone then you can do what I did on my last layout by scribing plaster over 3-ply and they didn't just look good they looked bloody good! I used a

1/4" skim of plaster pasted to 3 ply previously painted with diluted PVA. This technique works well for paving slabs as well. Use bog standard multi-finish house plaster. Plaster of Paris dries to hard.
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Chris Wilson

In message , "Just zis Guy, you know?" writes

Hi Guy

Have a look at Scalescenes - in the railscenes section there are several possibilities.

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Bill Campbell

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do rubber rocks, and I have seen similar in europe. you could surely make your own from a mould? Pourable moulding rubber is quite cheap.

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bobharvey

Very easy to make your own moulds and cast your own sections.

MBQ

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manatbandq

I will try this if I can get a couple of the level sections as templates. Guy

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