Bricking it. Update 21st July

[Hu Rhu]

Looking good.  Am following this with interest.

[6milPhil]

I currently plodding along with this one. It's a cast of an earlier version given the Liquid Greenstuff treatment, shutters, a vent and hacked the door out so that'll be different from the original.



To be able to cast it in one piece the shutters which aren't flat to the wall need some filling behind them, other wise the master will break coming out of the mould and it'll be a trifle awkward to cast, and to pull once cured.

Roughly at first


Then smoothed and shaped, this will be sanded once dry.


Obvious at some angles


Generally not too bad


Realising that the over hanging hinges might be troublesome, so I'll be adding hinges to the brick work as details but also an integral vent.


Also made some roofing sections, three types.


And dormer windows, made one maste,r cast it and will fit different windows in each one, WIP.

[Burnin Coal]

Really impressive - loving the detailing in your work

[Mr. Peabody]

Very much like where this is going and a big fan of Slug Industries...

So I wanted to suggest a possible adjunct or alternative to all that Liquid Green Stuff. For years I've dabbled with making my own moulds and masters, guided by one of the chaps at the museum where I work part-time. He turned me on to acrylic gels & pastes for this kind of work.

I've been using Golden's High Solids Matte Gel and their Molding Paste as a filler or adhesive, to add texture or detail and to skim-coat surfaces that might react with the mould rubber.

Some gels shrink a fair bit when they dry, but these two don't. At least not noticeably. They don't give a great surface to sand once dry, but you can attack them or remove them with ammonia like most acrylics. Windex for instance.

Hopefully a tub or two of acrylic goo is cheaper and more versatile than bottles of LGS.

[FramFramson]

There's also the Vallejo plastic putty which is their competitor to liquid GS (it's just a Vallejo paint dropper full of 100% acrylic resin).

[6milPhil]

Really impressive - loving the detailing in your work

Ta. 

Great tips fellas, thanks!

With the moulding paste, which I prefer the look of, whenit cures does it warp at all? Also whereabout do you get it in the UK?

[Mason]

This may sound daft and you may have addressed it already in the thread but...why not just make the protruding parts separately to be stuck to the main wall section after moulding?

[6milPhil]

This may sound daft and you may have addressed it already in the thread but...why not just make the protruding parts separately to be stuck to the main wall section after moulding?

Apologies for not understanding what you're asking. Could you be more specific?

[OSHIROmodels]

I think he's on about elements like the angled shutters. Would it be worth doing the separately?

Great work on these Phil 

cheers

James

[6milPhil]

I think he's on about elements like the angled shutters. Would it be worth doing the separately?

Great work on these Phil  

Thanks.

Ah yes I could, but I deliberate in going for a one piece facade. Not least because I know a lot of folk who want their scenic side of the hobby to be as quick and simple as poss. The idea and have behind these is to keep the number of pieces to an absolute minimum, and hence construction. It also saves time, one mould instead of X moulds, one mix, one pour, you get the picture.  

[6milPhil]

I'm happy with the scribed brick cast, looking forward to getting some paint on it.



And a variant on that WIP




On the filled shutter above a couple of posts do folk think it's too much? I can make it less prior to making a mould. I'd hate to make a mould to cast a model which folk thought was good except for that...

[mcfonz]

Lovely stuff Phil.

You know me, always sit on the fence. I can see both points of view in regards to the shutter.

I'm wondering whether it's worth a bit of both, so 90% of the shutters as they are, perhaps a couple not attached, so it's a case of a couple of shutters separate to add a bit of flavour or just glue on flat if you cba?

[OSHIROmodels]

Top job 

Looking forward to seeing them coloured in as well 

cheers

James

[Sangennaru]

Wow, I completely missed this trhead, you're doing great stuff here phil! Keep going!

[6milPhil]

Thanks fellas.

Started getting some paint on them, it's made easier being able to paint what's effectively a flat, but it seems to be taking far too long... 

Not done any weathering yet, not sure whether estate-agent styled plain works better for a catalogue than fully weathered. Ideas?