Advice on brickwork please.

[Thunderchicken]

Hi all,

I'm about to start putting my own Victorian 25/28mm buildings together and could do with some advice. I'm experimenting with foamboard and cork for the structures but I'm not sure what to use for the brickwork. I've had a look at the embossed plastic sheets by Wills but wondered if there are any alterntives (unfortunatley I haven't got the time and the skill to do my own embossing).

Apologies to Matakishi and Overlord in advance, you did give me details of a source on E-bay but I've forgotten the name.

[Argonor]

Just get Overlord to do it.... he has some kind of obsession with bricks...   

[Operator5]

I use printed brickwork. It's cheap and easy and you can always print more.

[dodge]

What about brick paper for dolls houses, you can get that from hobbycraft or other such places, not really looked at it in detail but may be worth a look.
dodge

[matakishi]

Here's the source of embossed styrene sheet, Fenris Games
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Fenris-Games_W0QQssPageNameZstrkQ3amefsQ3amesstQQtZkm

Printed bricks can be ok as well, depends on your tastes. My Geezers! buildings will have a bit of printed stuff on them I think as they'll be designed slightly differently from my normal style.

[Skrapwelder]

If you want to cast in resin or plaster I could make you a copy of the base mold I use. Its about 2.5 inches high by 8 long.

[Captain Blood]

Antenociti also carries all manner of sheet materials...

http://www.barrule.com/Workshop/scratch%20builders%20paradise/sheet%20materials.html

[Thunderchicken]

Thanks for the help chaps, there's plenty of ideas to be getting on with there.

Just out of interest has anyone looked at one of these before:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Patchwork-Cutter-Brickwork-Embosser-Sugarcraft_W0QQitemZ150305167723QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item150305167723&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1301%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

[Argonor]

Funny thingy... do you just press it into the material to be embossed?

[Thunderchicken]

Looks like it. I'm thinking it might be naff as I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere.

[Operator5]

That is designed to be pressed into cake frosting, though I suppose you could also push it into clay or another similar medium. Bricks are kind of big though.

[Captain Blood]

Alternatively of course, you could just make thousands of tiny bricks by cutting up short lengths of matchstick, covering them in a fine sand and PVA, and then building actual walls with them...


Only kidding...

 


(Don't mention it to Overlord though... I wouldn't but anything past him where miniature brickwork is concerned...  )

[Svennn]

Yeah, I think it would work fine but the bricks do look too large.

Crafting gear can be very usefull. My wife makes handmade greetings cards and has allsorts of usefull stuff. You can get very cheap paper ribblers which make great corrugated sheeting for modern roofs or trench linings etc. and although a little expensive to set up from scratch (but excellant if you have a wife with one like me) is a Cuttlebug machine. You can get a lot of different forms for it and emboss plain card into loads of different patterns. I dont have a brickwork one but I use it regularly for cobblestones and the like. Heres an example

http://www.creativemaking.co.uk/shop2/index.php?cPath=214
http://www.creativemaking.co.uk/shop2/product_info.php/cPath/214_219/products_id/3615

[Ramshackle_Curtis]

See my Dad is a brick layer so I may be of some small sevice here: its all about getting the layers to over lap, and make sure they are straight. Point up the brickwork can seem like a chor ebut make sit look better in the long run and...oh...you meant model bricks, sorry!

[twrchtrwyth]

See my Dad is a brick layer so I may be of some small sevice here: its all about getting the layers to over lap, and make sure they are straight. Point up the brickwork can seem like a chor ebut make sit look better in the long run and...oh...you meant model bricks, sorry!