Okay, so I’ve been working on this helipad for the past two or three weeks.  I’m the kind of guy who likes to get most of the casting for a project out of the way, rather than try to alternate between casting and building.  As a result, I haven’t been posting a lot of pics, because all you’d see is bricks.

I have built the platform part of the helipad out of Starship Deck tiles.  I wanted to do a border using the first mold I ever bought, the Station Builder mold.

Now, I don’t have my digital camera right now, but I want you to imagine three items:

1. two 1.5″ bricks from the SB mold
2. three 1″ floor tiles, glued together
3. three inches marked on a metal ruler

Now imagine that none of them are the same.  And not a little off, but a lot off.  (1) is too long, (2) is too short.  And It’s such a mess that really don’t know what I’m going to do with it but damnit right now I’m just mad.  I think I’m going to drop the whole sci-fi thing for a while and just stick to ruined fieldstone, which is a lot more forgiving.

As a final note: that Station Builder mold has never worked right.  I know Bruce does top quality stuff, but for whatever reason that mold is just a total *itch to work with.