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Reply to "Brick work for sides of building facades"

I was faced with a similar situation with an Ameritowne building.  I have one that was finished on 3 sides, but had a plain/unfinished back... which worked fine, until I needed to relocate the building to the middle of the layout where the back would be visible.    I tried using a different brick pattern on the back, but it just didn't look right.

In order to match the existing brickwork color/texture I took a picture of one of the finished sides, cropped and scaled it to match (which took a couple trial runs - including getting the lighting right on the photo), then printed it on a high quality printer.  From there I just glued the paper in place, then added a fire escape over top of that to sell the effect.    From more than a foot away you can't tell that the brick is just paper.   If I can snap a pic later I will post it.

-Dustin

Edit:  Added pics of the "take a picture of another wall and glue it" solution for adding brickwork to a blank wall.  Not perfect... but not too shabby either:

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