Source for loose bricks and rubble?

[Thunderchicken]

I'm looking for a UK source for loose bricks and rubble to create some ruined houses in 28mm. It'll be for houses along the lines of the Victorian builds I've been working on recently so any help would be appreciated.

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=23647.0

Years ago I found a source for packets of literally hundreds of loose bricks which would have worked perfectly but I'm buggered if I can remember where I found them!

Thanks.
TC

[Dewbakuk]

O Guage bricks
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-REAL-MINIATURE-BRICKS-MODEL-RAILWAYS-O-GAUGE-/320313192649?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item4a942770c9

smaller scales are cheaper.

[Thunderchicken]

Aha! eBay! Missed that one off the list. Thanks Dean.

[Dewbakuk]

No problem. Pegasus Hobbies also do packs of various types but Ebay is probably your best bet. For non brick rubble I'd just use broken up plaster.

[Alfrik]

Here's how I make my bricks with a rectangular hole punch and 2mm colored foam sheeting;

http://armoredink.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-brick-making-material.html

even the left over sheet material can be chopped up to make brick bits.

[Svennn]

There is a bag on my painting table that came from a magazine or somewhere. Shall I give them to the postman?

[Thunderchicken]

Cheers Alfrik, that's a good system you've got there.

Svennn, happy to come and pick them up.

[Andym]

Have you tried looking at our model diorama counterparts methods? Some are a bit too detailed and extreme but you can definatley learn something from them.

This guys build, though not a Victorian house, is a great example. This is the second page of his build which shows how he makes his rubble...http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=SquawkBox&file=index&req=viewtopic&topic_id=143043&page=2

[Lowtardog]

Havent looked but bet Antenocitis sell them

[6milPhil]

I bought a bag, but thought they were a bit pricey, so glued a few bricks individually to pieces of wood, stabbed away with those into plasticine and did plaster casts off those. The result was good enough to use, cost a fraction of what it might, plus I found I could manage to use the plasticine mould up to three times if I was careful with them.

[digimortal]

There is a guy on ebay selling bags of bricks and other dolls house stuff, I was lucky enough to get a two for one deal.

http://stores.ebay.com.au/MINACO-UK

[Thunderchicken]

Thanks chaps! Plenty to be getting on with there. 

[thejammedgatling]

I like the pegasus ones but they are pricey, so I tend to make my own to pile and add a few of the nice ones in as top dressing. My rubble mix is basically bricks (made from finely chopped cork floor tiles which give them a nice clay like texture), crushed brick and limestone as rubble, balsa strips for fallen timbers and smashed acetate sheets for glass.
BTW, your buildings are excellent and I was waiting to see if you'd go down the path of making a few which had taken some damage.

[Bako]

It's interesting seeing all the results you fellows came up with. Me? I just cut up all those left over sprues I accumulate. Works quite well, and cheap too. If you're after obvious and well-detailed bricks featuring holes through, then this is definitely not for you however.

[Hammers]

O Guage bricks
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-REAL-MINIATURE-BRICKS-MODEL-RAILWAYS-O-GAUGE-/320313192649?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item4a942770c9

smaller scales are cheaper.

I bought two packs of these, thinking 0 scale bricks would be plenty. I ended up paying £22 for quite a tiny pile. I am sure there  are 500 of them, and quite neat, but it is not a lot to make piles of rubble of at that price!