These highly detailed stock castings range from standard common brick, hand-carved and fractured-face stones, to odd patterns of brick pavers, corrugated metal and plain old concrete. Not just plain, but cast with delicate forming board impressions.

    These are the finest masonry scratch-building components available. The precise hand-scribed patterns are faithfully reproduced in silicone rubber molds. They are cast in strong yet highly workable White Hydrocal. The backs are scraped flat in the casting process to assure you of a standard thickness.

    Each pack comes with finishing instructions, supplemented with the descriptions listed at the bottom of this page.

    All measurements are approximate, to the listed scale. Thus, an HO scale panel which is listed as 29' x 58' x 12" is just about four by eight inches and 1/8" thick or so.

    Panels are packed two ( 2 @ ), three ( 3 @ ), etc.

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YOU CAN BUILD SOME COOL STUFF WITH THESE THINGS!

    These are the same building blocks I use to create the patterns for my kits. I take the pattern that I need, cut it up, add window and door openings, and sometimes, yes, I do fancy stuff to them, but without these stock panels I'd be lost. Pretty nice of me to share them with you, wouldn't you say? You don't have to do anything fancy. You can just use the concrete and stone for simple retaining walls, the herringbone brick for platforms, or maybe get brave and cut some of this stuff for a foundation or wall. Once you figure out how easy it is to work with and see the realistic results you'll want to do more and more.

PRICE IS $12.95 PER SET

HEY, NO PIRATING!

    This should go without saying, but please, don't rip me off.
It's very tempting to make copies of someone else's work. Saves you lots of time and effort. The problem is your friends come over and see what a great job you've done and instead of showing them my web site you forgot to bookmark you get talked into making just a few more for them, their friends, the club, and Tommy down the street. Meanwhile me and my cat starve. Then one day you wonder what ever happened to that guy who made all those cool castings?

    I know you wouldn't do this but a few years back I caught this jerk from Gresham, Oregon selling urethane knock-offs of my interlocking fractured stone castings at a swap meet down in Portland. He explained that the guy he bought them from said it was okay. If you ask the right guy it's okay to rob a bank too.

    Here's my original pattern and the knock-off underneath.
They even put their own copyright notice on the label!

    To make matters worse, even after a face to face scolding at the swap meet, a few months later I found the same items as well as illegal copies of other manufacturer's goods hanging in a Portland hobby shop. So much for the friendly warning.

    I work hard to create MY patterns and market them at a fair price. I'm trying to make an honest living and it is against the law to reproduce and sell them! I'm selling you the casting to build a model with. I'm not selling you the copyright to it. If you want to do that then MOVE TO RED CHINA! You can make all the copies you want there. Billions and billions of them.

    Here, I'll spell it out for you...

    Recently, several how to make molds and cast knock-off parts have appeared in the model railroad press, skipping the essential part about how to make your own masters. I just cannot believe this stuff is in print! Somehow the authors, and worse, the editors, have gotten in their heads that it is okay to steal someone else's work off using the excuse that it is okay if it is for non-commercial use. This is nonsense and sets a bad precedence. Sorry, no, not even for just your own personal use. It's still called pirating.

    Because of these and other events I must express a hard stance against all such piracy- even for personal use. And because of other bad experiences I DO NOT sell molds of my patterns nor do I license them.

BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS...

    You can do it yourself. If you want to make your own castings, MAKE YOUR OWN PATTERNS, buy some rubber, and have at it, as explained in my How To Clinics listed below. Pay particular attention to the part about making your own patterns.