Great North Roads have been making ceramic cast diorama structures for some time, and here Kevin Brant takes a look at two of their offerings.

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Thanks!

Is there detail on both sides of the castings?

I would doubt it!! Moulds would be a lot trickier, and the price is actually rather low.

The second set (with normal bricks) is a bit disappointing. The bricks just don't look right. Bricks are not concave towards the centre, or are they??

Cheers

Romain

I believe the product represents a wall built with cut stone and not bricks, that said frost damaged bricks also take on the appearance as tha damage pops the face off from the centre of the brick.

Yes, there is detail on both sides of the walls.

I stand corrected!!!

Cheers

Romain

Just ordered two sets of these, will let you know what they are like...when they have arrived

Tom

Hey Darren, it is two diffenent walls. One of cut stone and the other of brick. The cut stone has 3 blocks visable with a base and top. The cap on the collom has a pointed top. The other is brick with six bricks/corse,and a cap pointed with a round ball on top. And bricks can look that way after years of exposure. Yesterday on NatGeo, there was a show about a community on the coast of Africa that was built of brick and in some pic's the only thing left was the honeycombed mortar. This happens when the brick material is softer than the motar. On structures made with (orange brick) it has the habbit of corroding faster than the mortar because of the material used to make it; my house has several to replace yet. On structures made of (red) brick, the brick lasts longer than the mortar because the material makes it denser than the mortar, which you see on buildings where the walls seem to have collasped, no mortar left or strong enough to hold them together. So realisticly, the weather is a large reason the brick material looks as it does, sand, water and wind; you can include explosions and bullets also. The bricks that are colored orange are very pourious and are meant to be painted by the way.

You never stop learning!! That's so great with such a forum! Lots of guys with lots of valuable info!! And they are prepared to share it too!!!!

Cheers

Romain