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Ruin Wall
trabanino
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Posted: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 - 11:12 PM UTC
Hi, my friends, after many experiments with diferents materials at last iīm building a ruin wall, what you think?



donīt put attention in the mess i have in my workbench


<img src="https://gallery.kitmaker.net/data/17327/medium/DSC06587.JPG" />



modelmaker9
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Posted: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 - 11:23 PM UTC
That looks very good. I would suggest making the bricks a little more jagged on the "ruined" part because it looks like they are just cut in half. Maybe damage them a bit more around the edges and where they meet. It is very good for a first try though what method did you use??
trabanino
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Posted: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 - 11:57 PM UTC
Thankīs for the advice, Well i make one piece of a brick wall section with plaster, and then i make a mold from that piece with rubber and then just copy it an copy it, with a mix of stuco and chalk. And then you only have to glue the parts whit carpenter glue (the brown one). The master piece is like the linka system http://linka.com and how they only work with 1/72 i make my master for a 54mm.
HES21
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Posted: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 - 12:25 AM UTC
I like the way the surface sides are slightly uneven, makes it look way better - more realistic for a war dio!
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Posted: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 - 03:19 AM UTC
Generally these look good. The corner joint is a bit 'loose' I would sharpen the corners a bit more (2nd picture).
spooky6
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Posted: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 - 12:42 PM UTC
Another thing that might help make the wall more realistic is broken, dislodged, or hanging bricks, particularly at the edges. Like this:

Good work, Trabanino. Is it 1/35 scale?
Gunny
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Posted: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 - 03:53 PM UTC

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Hi, my friends, after many experiments with diferents materials at last iīm building a ruin wall, what you think?




Hello mate!

Looks really good, Bro, especially for a first attempt at construction! Very nice overall;
My thoughts lay with David's (Spooky6) to "dirty it up" a bit though, especially at the joining corner...take a look at real ruins, my friend, to get a good example of the way a building starts to crumble and collapse.
The figgies in the background look good too, mate, are they going in the dio with the wall??
Cheers!
~Gunny
trabanino
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Posted: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 - 10:29 PM UTC
Yep. the figures will go with the wall, it willl be a small Vignnete just 2 figs and the wall, and some bricks around it and a rock road.
Porsch
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Posted: Monday, August 07, 2006 - 05:05 AM UTC
Is that the Tamiya brick wall set?
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Posted: Monday, August 07, 2006 - 05:43 AM UTC
whats the measurment of a single brick?
i wuld like this info so i could make extra bricks
thanks
ps
i would like em in mm
Mech-Maniac
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Posted: Monday, August 07, 2006 - 10:29 AM UTC
Very nice. How long does this wall set take to make?


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Is that the Tamiya brick wall set?



If you read his post you would see that he makes the molds himself and casts it with plaster:


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Thankīs for the advice, Well i make one piece of a brick wall section with plaster, and then i make a mold from that piece with rubber and then just copy it an copy it, with a mix of stuco and chalk. And then you only have to glue the parts whit carpenter glue (the brown one). The master piece is like the linka system http://linka.com and how they only work with 1/72 i make my master for a 54mm.



good work!
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