Building a Brick wall

Check out Chooch products at Walthers.  They have these wall pieces in various stone sizes.  Many hobby shops carry these products.

https://www.walthers.com/flexi...-3-8-quot-33-x-8-6cm

Jan

@pphegena posted:

Hi Everyone

I am looking for Ideas on how to build a brick wall and what material to use i would like to try to possibly match the Tunnel Portal in the Picture

Any Ideas would be appreciated

Well, if that's your model, IMHO you're really more into scale stone blocks rather than bricks, but in any event, either or both can be replicated in styrofoam (either the cheap white stuff or the better blue/green/pink heavy-duty expanded polystyrene).

There's a lot of techniques and videos out there, but as one example, I used slices of old scrap styrofoam from packing containers (using a hot wire cutter), scored in a pattern similar to your example with a hot wire probe, then painted gray (with other color for accent stones), black washed and dry brushed in white (and black, above the tracks), to make portals for a double-wide drop-on tunnel for a relative:

I've also used cake stencils and fluffy landscaping material to create a brick/stone texture on any surface (pictured is a piece of foam board, before coloring):

Another alternative is to use a squared-off metal tube to press block shapes into the styrofoam or other soft surface, and there are also texture rollers available to emboss any soft surface, including air-hardening clay (the pinkish 'brick' blocks beneath the 'asphalt'):

Yes. Easily done by embossing pink foam insulation. I would recommend against true styrofoam, though. To friable.

@Avanti posted:

Yes. Easily done by embossing pink foam insulation. I would recommend against true styrofoam, though. To friable.

Fair point, and I should have stated the relative desirability -- thanks!

White styrofoam's main advantage IMHO is that it can usually be obtained free, or at least very cheap. OTOH, it is very flimsy, easily dented or broken, and highly vulnerable to dissolving in petroleum-based paints and solvents, so it needs to be carefully protected by water-soluble paint or landscaping materials, and tends to shred into thousands of bits and flakes when sawed or cut. The "pink stuff" (in whatever color you find in your local hardware store) is much stronger, easier to work and less vulnerable to subsequent damage.

You can sometimes find pieces of the pink or blue foam that have blown away from construction sites. You can save money and clean up the community!Both the tunnel portal and base of the sand bin were made with foam that was picked up roadside.

Scenic Express pages 131 to 161+.

Lots of ideas.

I've made some using foam as described above.  I have also printed out walls on paper and glued to foam boards.  Then I used small foam pieces to simulate columns to hide seams.

If you really want to try something different, look at the kitchen back splash tiles at the big box stores.  Preferably those which are discounted because they are broken or old.  Fill with some grout or grout like material and paint with a dirty gray, black or brown wash and you have some nice stone or brick walls.

i laser cut the bricks.