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I managed to carve some bonus real estate during my latest scenery efforts and thought it would be a nice spot for another humble abode. I always wanted to try modeling an Insulbrick house commonly seen across the northeast and Midwest. So far I came up with painting Plastruct brick sheet Polly Scale Dirt and giving it a black wash with some highlighted ‘bricks’ here and there. The panel seams are painted. It thought of cutting the sheets into separate panels but that would have been a lot more work. Still quite a bit to do. I am out of sheet brick and hope to get some delivered in the next few days. These two sides were just put together to see if I was onto something with my experiments. Thought I’d share the progress so far:

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Edit/Add:   4/12/20 AM.   A celotex/ fiber board, easily applied, was a big plus, to older homes, that had no wall insulation.  At the very least, it inhibited the wind from blowing through the cracks, in a building.  Still a lot out there, much has been sided over, with Aluminum, or vinyl.   IMO  Mike CT.   Great modeling, Norm, thank you.   

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Norm,

I read through you post again and have a question. You said you painted the seams. Can you explain how? When I have to make fine lines like that, I've been using a black marking pen I get at the craft store. They make them with tips as fine as 1 mm, and them come in lots of colors, including white which I often use to highlight the upper surface of things such as relay case vents. But would like to hear about your technique for making those seams.

Neal, after giving it a wash and painting the different colored ‘bricks’ I just painted the seams with a very thin brush and MM flat black. I did the seams after I applied the brick to the foamcore. I did a 5 brick high by 4 brick wide pattern but I think it should have been 5 by 5.

I finally got the rest of brick sheet today so I’m hoping to get this finished and planted before the weekend. 

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