ON-LINE HOW TO CLINICS

  HOW TO CLINICS  
Here are a bunch of my on-line how to work with Hydrocal mini-clinics. Each kit includes specific instructions of course- and there are lots of ways to do things, but here are my thoughts, tips and techniques.

  Coloring STONE  
With a little practice you can color realistic stone walls. Here's how I do it.
What are we going to do now that Testors/Floquil has dropped their Flo-Stains?

  Coloring SHAKE ROOFS  
Really the same as coloring concrete, it is simple. Check out how I do it.

SCRATCH-BUILDING STOCK

  Hand-Carved Stone-  
I have three different grades available. Use as retaining walls, cut them up for foundations, or make whole new buildings.

  Standard Common Brick- fine  
If you like to scratch-build or just want to practice before you do, check out my stock castings. These are the same building blocks I use to create my kits.

  Cedar Shake Roof- large  
The roof stock, my Cedar Shake Roof - Large, CSR-L, is also available. Perhaps it is more suitible for larger scales but I used it here.

COMPLEMENTARY KITS

  The Safety Hook & Ladder Co.  
  Brick Firehouse  
How about this little two-story firehouse? It's the prefect introduction to Hydrocal brick structures. If you are afraid to tackle the larger kits why not start here? You will find that Hydrocal modeling is lots of fun and not that difficult to master.

  The White Stone Church  
is the next model in this catagory. It has the same type stone walls though I cheated a little bit and never painted them. The cedar shake roof on the church is a finer, smaller shingle.

  The Virginia Horse Barn  
Or how about another barn. This one features lots of board-by-board construction on top of a simple cobblestone foundation.