Magic walling fairydust - Source needed thereof

[confuzatron]

I was impressed by the photos of Marketstone's 'Millstone Walling' in their brochure, so ordered a couple of samples. In real life the stuff ('Original' colour) is much more uniformly greenish looking. Not very convincing at all.

I was wondering how they get it to look quite weathered and realistic in those photos... Photoshop, or maybe the product mentioned in the subject of this post?

Has anyone built anything with Millstone Walling, and if so were you impressed by the result?

[Tony McC]

I don't have a copy of the Marketstone brochure - have you a weblink or can you scan and post summat?

[Tony McC]

Just a thought....do you mean Stonemarket, rather than Marketstone? Marketstone are a very small company and, from memory, they don't have a range by the name of "Millstone", whereas Millstone is one of Stonemarket's biggest sellers.

Confusing, innit, Confuzatron?

[lutonlagerlout]

i know the stuff its stone market methinks
you have to remember confuzatron that all this hardscaping is dressed with a couple of grands worth of plants,nice cars and a sometimes a scantily clad young lady doing yoga
it takes your eye off the product
sleight of hand i say!
you can use live yoghurt or a 1:1 mixture of fresh sheep sh!t and soot to age walls
cheers LLL

[confuzatron]

Agh yes. stonemarket it is. This stuff here: http://www.stonemarket.co.uk/millstone_walling.asp
It resembles the style of a lot of stone garden walling here in Edinburgh.

Thanks for the suggestions. I might try the yoghurt and soot trick (and give the sheepshit and soot trick a miss - you just can't find good quality shit these days).

[lutonlagerlout]

sorry its either yoghurt on its own or a mixture of green sheep poo and soot painted on
LLL

[Suggers]

Oh no... if that's the recipe for fairy dust, I'm definitely not playing Tinkerbell in panto this year.

[squire]

green sheep poo

How many colours does sheep poo come in? Do they do magnolia?

[confuzatron]

Never seen a green sheep. Anyway I was thinking maybe the yoghurt would be lichen food in the same way as sheep shit, although sheep shit also has staining properties. I saw somewhere you can do a wash with just sooty water as well.

I'll have to see if I can get some soot out of a chimney without 'aging' my sitting room' in the process.

...Although there's nothing stopping me driving into the hills in search of the fabled dung of Ovis Viridis. Could be fun.

[lutonlagerlout]

the old brickie that showed me how to do it said the acids in the "fresh sheep poo " and the soot actually binds to the surface
definitely works ,i have done it loads of times to age walls.
cheers LLL