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hi, I recently found a set that I bought from a castle , called 'Build your own medival castle' it involves molding your own bricks etc, they give you a mold with arch bricks small cube bricks and cuboid bricks, and couple bags of plaster of paris and all you need to get started.
The good thing about this set is that the bricks are more or less sm32/45mm, which is perfect for constructing your own building for next to nothing with no limitations.
so I thought it was about time to get a building on my railway so, I'm currently building a engine shed for Ivor






all photos can be found on my website
thanks for looking please feel free to comment and ask questions
(the building as it is in the last picture which was just now has taken about three evening to build)

The photo's aren't coming up on the Forum, but more importantly, you're not intending leaving the building outside are you?

haha no, if i do keep any out the bricks for them will be molded in quick drying cement rather than the plaster, thanks for the comment . It wont lt me show pictures im proberbly doing something wrong the photos are on my website under the album shed building

I think you're posting the wrong URL, try this.....

DWR:64663 wrote:hi, I recently found a set that I bought from a castle , called 'Build your own medival castle' it involves molding your own bricks etc, they give you a mold with arch bricks small cube bricks and cuboid bricks, and couple bags of plaster of paris and all you need to get started.

Is that this set? http://www.amazon.com/Toys-Construction ... B000VKR4X0

How many moulds do you get? Do you have to mould each brick, or do you do one course at a time??

Regards

Rob

DWR wrote:
hi, I recently found a set that I bought from a castle , called 'Build your own medival castle' it involves molding your own bricks etc, they give you a mold with arch bricks small cube bricks and cuboid bricks, and couple bags of plaster of paris and all you need to get started.


Is that this set? http://www.amazon.com/Toys-Constr...ing ... B000VKR4X0

How many moulds do you get? Do you have to mould each brick, or do you do one course at a time??

Regards

Rob

yep thats the one, you get one mould that makes 24 cuboid bricks and 6 cube bricks with one of each arch pieces . yep you have to mould all the bricks your self but you do get quite a few to get started with every moulding you do, I think that with all the bricks I did in the past thats used in my engine shed i think took aroun 10ish mouldings. Sir clothem cap did suggest to use quick drying cement so you can keep the building out side.
regards
Ellis

thanks Narrow Minded, how do you do that???

I think you're posting the wrong URL, try this.....

You put and instead of ............. Foxed me as well when I started. Tip: ALWAYS preview a message with pictures in - if you can't see them in the preview, we won't be able to, either!

MDLR:64681 wrote:You put and instead of .........

Or right click on the photo which brings up a dialogue box containing the word Properties at the bottom.
Left click that and another box opens and you'll see Address (URL).
Highlight and "copy" that and you can then paste it onto the Forum using the [Img] button.

thanks

That's a good idea, bit of red die and you'd have Aldeburgh red brick, bit of cream cement die and you'd get Suffolk white brick.

Where did you buy your set from?

Conwy castle about 3 years ago for £20