Brickwork for your outside model?

[Sir Simon]

When the grip of trying to build a garden railway in my backgarden took hold in January, I am now constantly creating buildings and structures. Its now a new hobby which I now love and thanks to forums like this I have been able to take some good advise and started to master the craft.

You can see below a couple of pictured of my local Pub 'The Red Lion'

  

Most of these models will remain outside to fight the Texas eliments and so far have survived.

I have coated the outside walls of the building with 'Stucco' which is like liquid concrete and then whilst it dries, then scribe brickwork to give it the building effect.

The roof is made from real house hold roofing. I simply cut in to squares. Using the Stucco, paste on to the roof of the building. No I have not got on top of my actual house to remove some shingle sheets. The wife would kill me if I did.

Here is my question. How / what / where can I use / get that would let me create actual house hold brick work to the side of these building, stand up to the weather and is easily to apply.

Thank you

Simon

 

 

 

 

 

[ttrigg]

Simon:  Last weekend I was over at my local hobby shop (Value Craft) and found a plastic/(rubber?) mold for brick walls. It is thick enough (3/8 inch deep) to use cement/mortar mix.  I’ve not tried it yet, and probably won’t until Jan/Feb.  Then I will need to figure out how to “block off” for doors and windows.  The mold is 9 inch by 16 inch.  I found it over in the half inch scale doll house department.  When I do start using it I will be using red pigment in the mortar mix.  I’ve done that before and was able to get good representation of the standard red bricks.

[Jerry Barnes]

 Simon, I was the art teacher here and had a project for the students to make clay buildings. I made a tool out of a roll of clay, pressing in a piece of wood that I had carved to a brick size. Then fired the tool and put a stiff wire through the hold I had made while the clay was soft. THen you can roll the tool over a flat slab(1/4 to 3/8") of clay and have incised brick patterns. You do need to have the clay fired to at least Cone 5 so they are hard enough to stand up to weather. See my buildings on my web site.
 

[ttrigg]

Rolling pin for bricks, not bread.  I like it!