Circuit Genovia

[vabchrog]

Howdy everyone, time for an update. I went to Hobby Town and bought a couple rock molds and some Lightweight Hydrocal and some coloring tints all from Woodland Scenics.





I mixed the Hydrocal according to the instructions on the carton.


4 oz cold water to 10 ounces of Hydrocal


I put the water in a glass mixing cup and put into the freezer.


I poured the HYDROCAL into a paper bowl and used a casting table spoon to measure out 10 oz.





The directions said to pour the water over the Hydrocal and let it stand for 2 min before stirring. The guy at the store told me to follow the directions or the casting would crumble in my hands.





I sprayed the mold with water.





Then mixed the Hydrocal and pored it into the molds.





I did not demold until I came home from work the next day. I had to apply more pressure that I thought I would to get the rocks to pop out of the mold. I thought I might break them. The cool thing is if you break a piece off its just a small rock that can be used.


I then mixed up a small batch of HYDROCAL and used it to glue the rocks on. I sprayed the back of the rock and the place on the track where they were going to go with water then brushed Hydrocal on both places and pushed it down. I used my finger and a dry paint brush to smooth out the seams.





I let it dry for a couple days then mixed up the tints 16:1 for the burnt ocher and 32:1 for the black and yellow ocher.





I dabbed the ochers on with a q tip and a cheap paint brush for the black




If I get time I will be painting all the white with the flat brown latex I bought from Lowes

[TuscoTodd]

Great info and the rock detail looks AWESOME!
Thanks for sharing!

[vabchrog]

Hi everyone.

I painted the section with the rocks brown a while back. I hadn't had tine to anymore. I had the track in the den setting on top a toy box letting Benjamin and August play with it. My wide brought me a white piece of the dirt berms from the inside that August tore So I decided to finish up the inside dirt berms and cover them with plaster strips. Then I painted them brown. Still have to add dirt to them then that green areas. Here is a look.

[vabchrog]

[vabchrog]

Layed down some dirt on the inside and outside



Going to start adding some green and other colors this week end. I have to design out the right side of the track. I will probably rip up the asphalt from the pit area as I not happy with the height next to the track.

[vabchrog]

Added a little more last night. It needs to be painted and some rocks added.




Here is what I am modeling this section on

[TuscoTodd]

That is shaping up to look VERY cool!
Thank you for sharing the update shots. :)