Walls are a big part of any building, and having a good repertoire of wall techniques can be super helpful. We’ve already looked at a few wall techniques (see 3 Keys for LEGO Walls and Build Yourself a LEGO Wall), but today we’ll focus on a narrow subset: stone walls.
Let’s start off with a fairly basic technique: a studs-up wall of grey bricks, with a few 1×1 round plates and 1×1 bricks with studs on one side in order to give it a little rock-like texture.
Then you can take your wall up a notch by including profile bricks, as in this next example.
Of course, the most special thing about this example is the inset light grey. This gives the impression of an old wall where the outer layer has started to peel off. It’s a bit time consuming, but the result is rewarding.
Sometimes though, you need even more texture in your walls. This next building is largely ruined–I added all kinds of clip and bar pieces into the mix in order to achieve that look, as well as creating significant gaps in the structure using slopes and curves.
This next wall uses 1×2 plates and 1×1 round plates in order to allow the wall to curve. Of course, that’s not something you want on a house wall, but it works great for rice paddies!
Sometimes you need a cleaner, smoother kind of stone wall. A couple simple rows of grey tiles can do the trick!
You can also elaborate on the sideways tiles, as I did for the wall in the picture below–adding in some cheese slopes and round silver tiles. Notice also that I use curved slopes in the corner. That gives the house a unique non-rectangular shape, great for medieval fantasy.
One good reason to have more than one technique for stone walls in your repertoire is to avoid repetitive buildings when you have more than one kind of building in a scene. I’ve used two very different wall techniques in this scene in order to keep things interesting.
We can also use slopes to add diagonal cracks to a wall, a great texture for outdoor walls (usually not something you want on a house wall though!).
In both these examples I gave the wall a gentle slope. The first one (above) is built fairly straightforwardly with all the slopes attached; the next one has slopes rotated a couple different ways.
In the next example, I combined straight and sloped walls–and threw in some unusual colors!
The colors on the previous example bring us to the next point–in order to make your stone walls more interesting, you can experiment with a different colors. This is especially good for waterside walls, or other walls where the stone is obviously exposed to a lot of wear and tear. Mossy green colors are great! Notice too how I combined studs-up with sideways in order to make the pillars stand out a bit.
This next example adds some light aqua into the mix of colors. It’s also highly angled, making the whole building interesting to the eye. Also a little delicate to the touch…
This look inside lets you get a glimpse of the joints I used to angle the walls.
Here’s one last example of a stone wall that shows how we’ve just scratched the surface–this takes the basic sideways technique, but uses light grey round tiles on top of dark grey jumpers.
As you can see, the wall is built out from a layer of SNOT (studs-not-on-top) bricks and a layer of purple 1×1 round tiles! It took some experimenting to get the math right on this for the stones at the bottom to look natural with the tudor walls on top.
These are just a few different ways I’ve built stone walls–hopefully they’ve got your creative juices going so you can find the right solution for your LEGO build!
Have any additional techniques to share or questions about these ones? Feel free to leave your thoughts and questions in the comment section below!
You might find these other technique roundups useful too:
Geneva D 
Thank you for putting this together!
I’d love to see (just ideas here) a further castle-involved version of your “build yourself a wall” post that would talk a bit about tudor and stone construction. In addition something that talks about internal flooring materials of a castle. For example what are ways to build out floors in a multi-level castle? Should the floors be all grey or wood color?
Anyways love the details of your write ups!
Thanks, glad you found it useful! Those are great ideas for further specialization. I haven’t built too many castles, especially not with interiors, but I’ll put those on my list of technique posts to do once I can scrape together enough examples!