Thursday 26 May 2011

Over the garden wall

Just a quickie tonight (if you'll excuse the phrase). I managed to pick up a couple of cheap boxes of Italieri's Stone Walls care of ebay. I know walls are the kind of thing I could easily scratchbuild, but given my notoriously slow progress on most projects I figured this was a cheap way to save time!

They come as two sprues to a box, with each sprue containing enough pieces to make just over 2 feet of walls, including gates and a variety of end pieces, and have a nice, simple interlocking design. So between the two boxes that's enough for about four and a half feet of stone walls on the table. The plastic is nice and solid and the detail looks nice and crisp, so they should paint up well using the same techniques I used for the same company's farmhouse.

Here's a pic of the sprue:



Once painted, they should be ideal for farm boundaries, orchards or just the sides of roads.

2 comments:

  1. A good kit, from what it seems.
    Good luck with them Alan!
    And good luck also with painting this 'yellowish' stone. If you succeed in doing this, please tell me how you did it!
    T.

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  2. They look pretty nice!
    A good alternative to a scratch build...
    But the price is a little too high, in my eyes.

    Cheers,
    mojo

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