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Brickwork
Topic Started: Jun 15 2009, 06:13 PM (630 Views)
dicehead
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Have you seen this a brickmaking tutorial? I'm sure I've seen the same project on a different site with more pictures but I can't seem to find it.

It looks pretty good to me and if you didn't mind some crumbling or broken brickwork in places you could substitute his ingredients for some plaster and some sort of filler/glue for the mortar. Even if it goes hideously wrong I should have some nice rubble piles but it looks pretty easy to me.
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Ross
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Now that's getting detailed!
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Benny
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That'd be an interesting way to build terrain. Would take a while but would look really good :)

Reminds me of a realistic rubble guide I saw a while ago... Take a shallow tray and pour plaster in, allow to set. Then smash the hell out of it. Realistic looking rubble! lol
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It might be a fun exercise to build using the method just to see what it's like, to learn a new technique. But, I'll leave that particular way of getting things done to the "professional" model makers. If I started getting that anal I wouldn't enjoy my gaming because there could be a day when I play on a table that uses a bare can of beans as a tower and I might lose my joy of playing by thinking how short changed I am having to play on a table like that. The play is the joy for me.

I suppose it's just a good example of how expansive gaming is... Some folk will drop a load of unpainted plastic figures on a kitchen table and use unpainted cardboard boxes to play, others will use intricately painted pewter historically actuate miniatures on a dedicated gaming table using realistically model terrain.

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thewizardofoz
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oh. my. god...

who hates themselves enough to make a building in such a monotonous and tedious way? i admit, it is cool, but oh my god would it suck to do...
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Benny
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I wouldn't mind giving it a shot...

I've been looking at the Hirst Arts building molds which are a very similar concept to this.
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Ross
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Jun 16 2009, 04:54 AM
oh. my. god...

who hates themselves enough to make a building in such a monotonous and tedious way? i admit, it is cool, but oh my god would it suck to do...
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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I just cant imagine putting that much time and work into gaming terrain, for a static diorama or something sure but not an abusable gaming piece. I wonder how much weight it adds to a terrain piece.
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If it came right down to it I'd play using a dice made out of block of wood, a tin of beans stolen off Tinker and some pieces of paper with happy or sad faces as my army but if you can make a bit of scenery that you can use for several different genres then I think it might be worth trying. I don't think it's quite as bad as people are making out, you cast your bricks and that's easy enough and then glue them together in lines.

Maybe it would be easier to make a mould of a wall section and glue those together, I'm sure that would look nearly as good. I'm going to give it a go just to prove you negative nancys wrong!
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Jun 16 2009, 02:24 PM
If it came right down to it I'd play using a dice made out of block of wood, a tin of beans stolen off Tinker and some pieces of paper ... I don't think it's quite as bad as people are making out ...

... I'm going to give it a go just to prove you negative nancys wrong!



Go for it Dicehead! But touch my tin of beans and you're dead... I have a game coming up and need that piece of terrain, and snack ... :lol:

Edited by tinker, Jun 16 2009, 06:39 PM.
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dicehead
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Heh I wouldn't dare.
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Funny enough I thought about something similar last year for my SG-1 project after seeing some of the fantastic things done with HA kits.

I got to thinking of creating a few brinks - making a wall - creating a mold of the wall - casting a few walls - etc.

After experimenting with a little with Plaster of Paris poured in to various "interesting shapes" I found that the weight of the finished item put me off building anything large/extensive.

Best of luck DH with your experiment.
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Interesting way of making bricks. Looks cool, dont know if I would get bored half way through.
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dicehead
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Annoying, it turns out you're pretty much right. Plaster is too heavy and putting miniature bricks together is more boring than I can express without the use of hand gestures.

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I made a wall and cast a few from resin, that was easier and more fun. Depending on how much you fill up the mould you can have it as just the brickwork or the brickwork and base. Maybe I can use some strips of it to make houses or at least ruins. With realistic size bricks though it's nearly impossible to get them to line up straight, well I couldn't anyway.

Score one for the tin.
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Ross
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Still came up alright Dicey!
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Benny
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Possibly could be a bit squarer?
But other than that its looking really good :)
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dicehead
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I don't really like it, it looks ok as a rough stone wall like a garden wall or as rubble but it's a bugger to get them square by hand.

I just wondered if anyone had ever used this kind of product - it's embossed plastic sheets with different kinds of brickwork. It costs about £2 for an A4 sheet which I think you'd probably get a couple of ruined buildings out of.

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I haven't used plasticard sheeting like that... I have used thin strips of embossed plastic used for railways and attached it to foam core to make ruins interesting.
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Ross
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Interesting stuff, would make block terrain a pinch to whip up and look fantastic.
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