latex mold builder for cliff question

[FJ and G]

 I've only been into garden RR for about a year or so and when I started, i made a very large fill with many different types of rocks. Looking back now, i should have used similar rock color and cleavages rather than mish mash them.

To compound the problem, I colored some quikrete concrete a brownish latex color, made a soup with it and doused the entire fill, making even more of a mess. Of course I may eventually tear down the entire thing but it's pretty substatial, so yet another experiment is in the works; and I'd like to hear if any of you tried it.

I've been going around my garden finding rocks that I would like to make casts of using mold builder, a type of latex. I'm on about my 5th brushing of the latex and I'll likely add about 5 more layers tonight and then soak some gauzeous material in the mold builder and put that over for stiffness and strength and add about 5 more layers of latex.

Then, I'll buy some baby powder or something similar so when I peel off the mold it won't stick to itself.

Then, planning to use vinyl patching concrete in the mold and some coloring and try to make an artificial rock cliff. Not sure what to use for mold release but might try WD-40.

Any comments appreciated.

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