Hey guys,

What is the name of the tool in the second pic on the first page?

Cougar

this is indeed a good article.

here's my stupid question..what is corks??

The most common example would be the one used to seal wine bottles...

Guys at the link below have 2x3 sheets of flexible 2mm cork for about $6.00 as near as I can tell. Don't know about shipping.
6 square feet should last a while...
Shaun

http://www.buildingforhealth.com/corkunderlayment.html

Is there any chance this information is available somewhere else?? All the pics seem to be gone. Thanks Pat

From time to time you can find suitable cork at Ikea, used for laying under the plates to protect the table, good price to!
//Mats

Dank u, Mats its not that I can't find the material, I was hoping to see the "how to" pics from pg 1 that are missing.

It's likely not as detailed as this thread, but for anyone who wants to see a cork brick wall get built WITH photos, look at the two most recent pages of the Postcard Campaign.

I will try expalin how make a brickwork with cork.
I know that every country have is how brick measures. I asume that a "medium" brick have 2X7mm in 1/35 scale.


take a plate of cork of 2mm thick, and cut him in strips of 1mm wide(aprox) as you see in the picture. See that I not cut to very end of the cork.


cut these strips in 7mm bits


make a cardboard structure. These bits of cork must be glued here.


glue a paper to structure with lines in it for reference

arc of the bridge (really a sewer)



you must sanding all work


Now is time to imitate the concrete among bricks with a layer of plaste ror these prepared paste for repair walls before paint. Retreat excess before dry

The final result prepared for sea and paint.
These work take around 4 hours.I not count time for dry glue
I hope that these images talk for himself.
with this metod you can make the sewer...

or te entire factory


Carlos

Outstanding. What grit sandpaper do you use?

I use number 5

I'm afraid I don't know what #5 means. Do you know what grit it is? P260, P400 etc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandpaper

Thanks

sorry! the grit is 80 number five is for the reference of mark that I use!

http://www.calvidrier.cat/abrasivo-papel-lija-medallas-n-ordm-5-tagAgrup562B5

Thanks!

Carlos, thank you so much for taking the time to load the pics back up. It is wonderful information which will be very useful to me.

Its with much thanks to Carlos that this technique is quite common today, in the diorama world. He inspired many of us at this time and when this thread was first live in 2004.
See the link below to some older models of mines where I used the ideas as shown by Carlos.

T34 base and
Brummbar base and
Pz.Kpfw.IV

muchas gracias for putting the photos back on Carlos!

Your "factory" is terrific!!! Top realism!!

Kudos amigo!!

Cheers

Romain

Missed this first time around, excellent tutorial, many thanks.

Stunning factory.

Al

Tahnks for your nice words Guys, it´s a pleasure know that for others my works could be usseful and congrats Frank you made a very good use of this thecnic

Stunning work! Thanks for reposting.

I've used part of this technique in my Ardennes diorama here. I love how it turned out. Maybe someday I can do a building with it. Very versatile and relatively easy technique.

Thanks for sharing with us mere mortals!

I'd like to add my thanks for this reposting. Very much appreciated

Can you tell me if you painted the cork on your factory and if you used foamboard to stick the cork to....your help is much appreciated

oh by the way...your work is great