Brick for Scratch building HO structures ?
David J. Starr
I am looking for recommendations for a brick material to do some
scratch building in HO with. There's a couple thing listed in Walther's
but they seemed sort of pricy and were not illustrated, so I was
wondering what might look good. I was thinking about a New England brick
mill building in that turn of the century red brick.
David Starr
Erik Teunissen
I'm using Evergreen Styrene to build 'wooden' buildings. It's easy to cut
and
to glue. Painted and weathered you won't notice the difference.
They sell strips and sheets with different kind of surfaces, though
I'm not sure if they have brick.
Evergreen scale models inc.
12808 N.E. 125th Way
Kirkland, WA 98034 USA
hope this helps
Erik.
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Reg Barron
"David J. Starr" <dstarr@pop-3> wrote:
> I am looking for recommendations for a brick material to do some
>scratch building in HO with. There's a couple thing listed in Walther's
>but they seemed sort of pricy and were not illustrated, so I was
>wondering what might look good. I was thinking about a New England brick
>mill building in that turn of the century red brick.
>
>David Starr
>
>
I bleieve I would use Vollmer Styrene brick sheet for small projects
and Holgate and Reynolds brick sheets for larger projects.
RB
bign...@worldnet.att.net
How about Design Presevervations wall material? It's brick-patterned
plastic with door and window sections. You can make pretty large
buildings with it. Best of all, it's pretty cheap.
Cheers,
Bliss
Janos ERO
David J. Starr wrote:
>
> I am looking for recommendations for a brick material to do some
> scratch building in HO with. There's a couple thing listed in Walther's
> but they seemed sort of pricy and were not illustrated, so I was
> wondering what might look good. I was thinking about a New England brick
> mill building in that turn of the century red brick.
I bought a plastic brick wall sheet in the hobby shop and made a latex mold
of it. Now, if I want a house wall, I make a crate with the size of the wall,
fix on the top of the mold and cast plaster into. I fix silicone rubber
blocks on the place where windows and doors are planned. Very nice walls, can
be painted by dry brushing: that results white mortar lines.
The problems:
- If you don't put something rigid to the back of the latex "sheet" the wall
will be bumpery, just as it would have been made by a drunken bricklayer.
- The doors and windows are surrounded by the simple brick wall, there is no
beam above them as usual on the prototype. Probably can be solved with some
workaround.
Janos Ero
William J. Stillman
Janos ERO wrote:
>
> David J. Starr wrote:
> >
> > I am looking for recommendations for a brick material to do some
> > scratch building in HO with. There's a couple thing listed in Walther's
Colorado model structures (coloradomodel.com) offers brick sheet
material (among other patterns). The sheets are 4 1/4" x 10 1/2 for
about a buck apiece. I haven't tried it yet, but it looks pretty good.
Bill
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Mike Tennent
Reg Barron <bar...@erols.com> wrote:
>"David J. Starr" <dstarr@pop-3> wrote:
>> I am looking for recommendations for a brick material to do some
>>scratch building in HO with. There's a couple thing listed in Walther's
>>but they seemed sort of pricy and were not illustrated, so I was
>>wondering what might look good. I was thinking about a New England brick
>>mill building in that turn of the century red brick.
>>
>>David Starr
>>
>>
>
>
>I bleieve I would use Vollmer Styrene brick sheet for small projects
>and Holgate and Reynolds brick sheets for larger projects.
>
>RB
>
I like H & R brick sheets. It isn't substantial enough to stand alone,
tho. You have to build an inner shell of styrene and then add the
brick as another layer. If you have lots of windows, it can get a
little tedious.
Mike "TriBop" Tennent
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Reg Barron
wbru...@nospam.gate.net (Mike Tennent) wrote:
>Reg Barron <bar...@erols.com> wrote:
>
>>"David J. Starr" <dstarr@pop-3> wrote:
>>> I am looking for recommendations for a brick material to do some
>>>scratch building in HO with. There's a couple thing listed in Walther's
>>>but they seemed sort of pricy and were not illustrated, so I was
>>>wondering what might look good. I was thinking about a New England brick
>>>mill building in that turn of the century red brick.
>>>
>>>David Starr
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>I bleieve I would use Vollmer Styrene brick sheet for small projects
>>and Holgate and Reynolds brick sheets for larger projects.
>>
>>RB
>>
>
>I like H & R brick sheets. It isn't substantial enough to stand alone,
>tho. You have to build an inner shell of styrene and then add the
>brick as another layer. If you have lots of windows, it can get a
>little tedious.
>
>
>Mike "TriBop" Tennent
Many years a fellow named Logan Holtgrew demonstrated a method
to reduce the tedium of cutting out window holes in the inner styrene
layer. He would scribe the verical and horizontal lines for the
windows and doors, and run the lines the whole length and height of a
large piece of styrene. He would then snap it apart, reglue together,
less the pieces that took up the space for the windows and doors. The
outer layer of H&R was easy to cut the window and door holes out of in
the conventional way, and of course this brick sheet hid the seems
from the snapping and reassembly of the inner layer.
Reg Barron
Mike Tennent
Reg Barron <bar...@erols.com> wrote:
Yep. That's precisely the way I do it. But if you have enough windows,
it still gets a bit tedious even tho the H&R is easy to cut. Plus you
always screw up at least one opening and have to throw a whole wall
away. <g>