Hi all, I am looking for info on both making and buying 1/35 brick to add to my dioramas. And how to go about adding the usual debris at the base of a ruined building.
Thanks for the assist
Cheers eh ?

Hi

Take a look here if you want to buy moulds to make your own.

http://www.kancali.com/Wallsections.html

Alan

there is a feature on how to build a brick jig to make them out of plaster on the site. Look under Digital diamonds in the feature section, all sorts of good stuff. I made mine out of evergreen styrene and its worked great!

The Kancali moulds are great for bricks and masonry, however another cheap source of rubble is to use cat litter. Buy the plain white stuff, it can be painted to look like any kind of brick or stone.
To make heaped piles of rubble use florists foam(Oasis) for the bulk of the pile. It carves really easily and can be coated with a coat of PVA white glue then sprinkled with rubble.

If it is still available, Custom Dioramics make a product called "Rubble". I picked up a box at a Hobby show for $5. You cant go wrong.

KanCali makes great stuff - I've used it all.

Mold Review
I've used thier premade rubble too.

All very good stuff.

DD Bricks

It does come down to cost and availability. If you can afford the Kancali molds and a bit of plaster - go for it. If you not, and plaster is available, make your own - DD feature, if still no luck - then go cat litter, or a broken piece of plaster board from a local DIY store

There are a few companies that make bricks from cork.I use them as they came in a bag of 5oo for a few bucks. The good point is that they are ready to use and uniform in size. Also one pass at the paint job covers it with no soaking up like plaster. Just break apart and you have broken parts too. I usually use a piece of foam to build up my piles of debri, paint it a suitable color and add baby sand and bricks ect. to it with a white glue/water mix. I always make an extra sheet of plaster so I can scribe stone or brick in it for larger debri which will almost certenly be found under the smaller peices. One other thing to remember is that what part of the builing that is not standing has to equal the pile of rubble. Hope that helps.

hobbylinc.com sells bricks painted and ready to go in 1/35 scale

Construction sites make great places to get debris. I use hobby bricks but i also used real smashed up bricks and mortar. There are all sorts of smashed tiny wood bits, pieces of old wire at buildings (particularly older ones) that are being remoldeled.