Hi all im new here...

I have a Q.

I have bought the book Terrain Modelling (richard windrow)

And in the book he is making a greate dio white bricks but he is making them him self...

So doo any off you guys now i can get my hands on the mold he is making them in ???

And too all a merry Christamas...

And sorry about the righting im Danish ;-)

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Hi Martin. I'm sorry I have no idea where you can obtain a mold to make bricks but it is possible to make your own at negligible cost. Daz clay or any other air drying modelling clay works. Use a rolling pin to produce a sheet the thickness of the bricks you want and then score with a sharp edge. If you look at the picture below, the building is from Great North Roads but all the fallen masonary and chunks of brickwork were made in this way. Hope this is of some help mate!

Vinnie

Sorry forgot pic!

Vinnie

A simple method for bricks.
Get 2mm thick cork sheets. Most places that do kitchen accessories will have this as table mats for hot dishes. Even small costers for hot drinks made of cork will do.
Bricks in 1/35scale are approx. 2 x 2 x 6mm. Cut the cork in 2mm strips and then cut the strips every 6mm. Build up your rubble bulk with polystyrene trays. Cover this with wall spackel (gips). Then add plenty white glue and cover with bricks, pieces of balsa wood and dust. Spray your rubble with brick red and pick out at random with different brick colours. You can also break these bricks in half for broken bricks. Dark washes will tie it alltogether.
Hope this helps.

thants OK my Danish is not so good...

Check outthe many articles here.... I wrote one called Basic Construction - Hunter or Hunted It give an idea of how I create bricks for building or streets



Ask lots of questions you have a geat resource here with many, many talent modellers.

Godd Luck and Merry Christmas to you!

John

Hi Martin,

If you want cheap individual bricks; use silicon molding. I made some brick "masters" by measuring the real thing and scaling it down and then I made a silicon mold of it. Now every time I have some plaster left from something I'm casting, I pore the rest in this mold and voila another twenty stones. It doesn't sound like much, but before I knew it I had a jar full ready for use.
This is a thread about the silicon molding:
https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/16552&page=1

Cheers,
Pascal

P.S.
I just remembered this link about silicon molding:
http://www.missing-lynx.com/articles/other/qed-silicnmlds-twieking.html
I use this to make plaster casts not miliputty.

Ref from bool (Terrain Modelling by Richard Windrow)

This is what i am looking for... look at the detial on the bricks they look real....

And thanks for alle the tips guys....

Hello In adittion to Plastic battle response ( perfectly explained) I adeed some photos of the process:
cut strips:

cut bites:

glue these bites to a previous carboard made structure

sanding it

apply a bit of plaster and sading it the excess of plaster

this is the result

interesting information ..Granitex...hmmmm

Martin,

Another very easy method for creating bricks comes from Keith Megee's second of a great series in the features section, Digital Diamonds. I have created a great number of bricks with this method and it is cheap.
https://armorama.kitmaker.net//features/58

Jay

I've done the cork method too, and it works quite well. My problem is painting. I could paint the sheet of cork, and then cut, but then the edges would be exposed. What I've done in the past is make a little jig frame with window mesh stapled to the bottom. I then add the bricks and then dunk it into thinned brick colored house stain. This works, but is very messy. Keith's article looks great, and I will be trying that.
Keith a couple questions though:

when you make the jig and pour the plaster, do you have some sort of "border" for the edges so the plaster doesn't "run out" of the sides?

When you score the plaster and plastic to create the bricks, do you have to do this every time, because it seems to me that you would eventually cut right though the whole piece, or is this a case of having to make a jig everytime you want to cast bricks?