DougL

How do you create raised brick features on scratchbuilt brick structures?

You can imagine things like arched windows with the arch extending out, 3-D cornices, and pilasters. I had to look up pilasters.  They are the flat, vertical columns like those seen on Design Preservation Models.

One person here scribes the entire brick wall by hand.  That seems a little much for my skills, perhaps just adding raised parts would work.  

Other ideas? Thanks!

--  Doug -- Modeling the Norwottuck Railroad, returning trails to rails.

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Cadmaster

http://www.monstermodelworks.

http://www.monstermodelworks.com/

Should find most of what your looking for here. 

Neil.

Diamond River Valley Railway Company

http://www.dixierail.com

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Mycroft

Mold your walls

http://www.linkaonline.co.uk/

Not just brick but stone work as well.

http://www.linkaonline.co.uk/mem---james-j-eager.html  - A scratchbuilt building I finished recently done with stonework.  I'm currently working ona building with both stone and brickwork as a station.  I'm doing a writeup on it as well with lots of construction photos.

 

 

James Eager

City of Miami, Panama Limited, and Illinois Central - Mainline of Mid-America

Plant City MRR Club, Home to the Mineral Valley Railroad

NMRA, author, photographer, speaker, scouter (ask about Railroading Merit Badge)

 

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David Husman dave1905

Brick buildings

Short answer is you laminate the raised brickwork over the flat portions. Depending on what types of materials you are using that could be layers of plastic or card stock scribed to look like brick or it could be modified pieces of the wall material or it could be commercial castings or formed pieces.

Dave Husman

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ctxmf74

"One person here scribes the

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"One person here scribes the entire brick wall by hand.  That seems a little much for my skills, perhaps just adding raised parts would work. " 

   You never know what you can do till you try it. I suggest starting small, maybe  a brick BBQ or raised planter or brick walk to see how the various materials and techniques work. Skills can be developed with more hours of experience....DaveB 

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Ray Dunakin

Short answer is you laminate

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Short answer is you laminate the raised brickwork over the flat portions. Depending on what types of materials you are using that could be layers of plastic or card stock scribed to look like brick or it could be modified pieces of the wall material or it could be commercial castings or formed pieces.

That's how I've done it on my brick buildings. For instance:

Mine's 1/24th scale, and I scribed all the bricks. But in smaller scales you could use brick sheet for the basic stuff, and then it would be fairly simple to scribe the arches or other details on a separate piece of thin material and glue them in place.

 

 

Visit http://www.raydunakin.com to see pics of the rugged and rocky In-ko-pah Railroad!

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ITLA Scale Models

Laser engraved brick structure kits

See ITLA Scale Models product line. 

 

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Jwmutter

N-scale Architects

Has very nice brick sheets in all scales, and one of their sheets includes arches and other special shapes.  For my scratch built Moscow, PA, passenger station, I used an arch and cut the opening in the siding oversize, then glued in the arch.  If you want it slightly raised, just laminate a piece of 0.010 (or appropriate thickness) styrene to the back of the arch first.  I also used an 0.020 splice plate on the back of the siding to provide strength.

Jeff Mutter, Severna Park, MD

Http://ELScrantonDivision.railfan.net

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NebraskaTrevor

Layers are key

I agree layers are key!  The pics below are from a building I have started, and sadly never finished.  Several layers of laser cut .024" thick laserboard to achieve the various thicknesses.  Lots of work to draw and figure out in cad, but pretty fun to assemble!bricks1.jpg bricks2.jpg bricks3.jpg 

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Charles Weston
Beautiful work!
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Chris VanderHeide cv_acr
Plastruct HO scale brick sheet: (0.020" thick plastic patterned sheet)

https://plastruct.myshopify.com/collections/plain-amp-patterned-sheet?page=12

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The stone block layers below the windows were hand-scribed on 0.020" plain sheet.

All laminated to a 0.040" plain styrene core.
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