Creek Bank Rock Molds

Stone banks of a stream from two molds

A watercourse needs a bank and the whole impression of water stands or falls with it. This item holds two different molds, so a channel can be lined with castings alternated regularly without the same shape repeating. Stones smoothed by the current, gravel bars and low steps over which water spills arise from them.

The procedure from the channel to the water

• First cut out and smooth the channel itself in the base.
• Seat the castings along both banks and level the gaps with plaster.
• Color the bottom before any water compound comes onto it.
• Only then pour the imitation of water, and in thin layers.

The contents and the dimensions

In the package there are two different molds, each with an area of five by seven inches, that is 12.7 x 17.7 cm. The material is yielding, a finished piece comes free by flexing the wall and the pouring can be repeated. The casting compound and an agent for the water surface are not part of the delivery.

A small note about real landscape: a stream undercuts the bank at an outer bend and lays gravel down on the inner one. When the castings with sharp stones are placed in the outer bends and gentle gravel areas in the inner ones, a whole watercourse gets a logic that a viewer cannot name but sees at once. It takes only a moment of extra thought and the result moves up a class. It is also good to let some of the castings sink deeper below the surface and to pull others above it; the difference between wet and dry stone can then be expressed with a gloss and a matte finish, which is the simplest trick there is for getting movement into a stream.