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Textured Paper?
Posted by Jumijo on Thursday, August 24, 2017 11:46 AM

I see that MicroMark offers textured papers for brick, cobblestone, etc. Has anyone used these papers, and is the texture realistic? I might be interested in the cobblestone version for a street.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, August 24, 2017 12:46 PM

I use these when making wargaming terrain pieces, and they work great.

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They would not meet my needs for model railroading. Maybe in a background building or interior wall details, but definitely not out where they can be scrutinized.

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If I have time I will post a picture when I am back at home this weekend.

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Posted by BigDaddy on Thursday, August 24, 2017 3:16 PM

Jumijo
I might be interested in the cobblestone version for a street.

EDIT This is 1:24 it is styrene not as promising as I thought:

http://modelbuilderssupply.com/building-materials/plastic-paper-patterned-sheets/stone-pebbles/patt-sht-7x12-cobblestone-1-24-cob-2/#null

Baltimore has what is called Belgian block  Some of the model stuff i see looks more like flagstone

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Posted by Colorado Ray on Thursday, August 24, 2017 5:22 PM

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Jumijo
I might be interested in the cobblestone version for a street.

 

This looks promising, it is styrene:

http://modelbuilderssupply.com/building-materials/plastic-paper-patterned-sheets/stone-pebbles/patt-sht-7x12-cobblestone-1-24-cob-2/#null

 

The description indicates it's 1:24 scale.  Might be OK for G scale, but nothing else.  Their other stone patterns include a few 1:48 (O scale) and a few at 1:100 which would be undersized for HO.

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, August 24, 2017 6:56 PM

Chooch has some "cobblestone" that may work for you.

http://www.choochenterprises.com/HOroads.html

MB Klein has a pretty good stock of it...

Noch, Bush and Heiki all make several varieties of a foam-type roadway material but, to my eye, there really isn't much relief there, not much better than the paper stuff.

Vacuum-formed styrene, likewise, isn't going to offer very much "detail".

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Posted by BigDaddy on Thursday, August 24, 2017 7:04 PM

I missed that.  I have edited my post.  I found their site from another site, it didn't mention the 1:24

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Posted by Jumijo on Thursday, August 24, 2017 7:56 PM

Henry, I will be modeling Baltimore streets. Thank you for the info.

Ed, nice stuff, but they sure aren't giving it away, are they?

I might "cobble" together an image and print it on rough watercolor paper as an inexpensive experiment.

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Posted by zstripe on Friday, August 25, 2017 5:49 AM

Plastruct makes all kinds of patterned sheets in many textures...cobblestone streets being one of them in all scales. They are around .20'' thick with very distinct patterns.......perfect for streets... styrene and ABS can be cut with scissors.....if interested:

https://plastruct.com/about/catalog-download/

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Posted by Jumijo on Friday, August 25, 2017 6:28 AM

Thank you for the link, Frank. I didn't see any HO cobblestones. They did have dressed block in O and 1/12 scale though.

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Posted by NVSRR on Friday, August 25, 2017 8:41 AM

The cinder block sheets that micromark has do look good and take weathering.  A little to well.   But good

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Posted by BATMAN on Friday, August 25, 2017 9:52 AM

I did a lot of experimenting making bricks for the walls on the inside of my roundhouse. The commercial products were not worth the price IMO and after a search on youtube found a guy that used full sheet  (8-1/2 x 11)) label paper. It is already sticky one side of course so application was a breeze. I used  "Avery" Labels I got at Staples.

The relief on the commercial products was minimal at best on the ones I have examined. The advantage of printing your own is you can get exactly what you want off Google images. Just use regular paper until you get the brick size adjusted right. You should have seen me holding my little ruler up to the computer screenLaugh

On cobble stone streets the size of the stones or bricks would be smaller on hills or at loading docks where the horse would need better traction to get started or to go up a hill. This is why you see different sized bricks in different locations.

In Vancouver there are still spots where the cobbles have not been paved over and as a kid with my nose up against the window of the old Pontiac I always thought it was sloppy work that the stones were not a consistent size, but then I became a model railroader and became wiser.Laugh

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Posted by Jumijo on Friday, August 25, 2017 11:00 AM

Brent, I've decided to try exactly as you suggested. I downloaded a few images and pieced them together in Powerpoint. I think the texture or depth between the stones in HO scale would be minimal, so the watercolor paper might work out. I've already printed some on plain old bond paper as an experiment. The next step is to mount these on illustration board and weather them.

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Posted by zstripe on Friday, August 25, 2017 1:28 PM

Jumijo

Thank you for the link, Frank. I didn't see any HO cobblestones. They did have dressed block in O and 1/12 scale though.

 

I see You decided to give Batman's way a shot......should that not work out for You...what I used was the Plastruct Rough Brick 91605 Red For some of My streets.

https://www.walthers.com/patterned-sheets-rough-brick-020-x-7-x-12-quot-pkg-2-150-quot-red-bricks?ref=1

 

The bricks are rounded on the face and some are randomly higher/lower throughout the pattern. I was born in Chgo 1942 and many of the streets were that way, with streetcar tracks in the center, which by the way were very noisy running on that brick...as was any type vehicle.....especially wagons with steel rim wooden wheels...or hard rubber tire trucks.....also bumpy. Impossible to use steel wheel roller skates on...LOL. The concrete side walks back then were no better.....they were course grain finish...sounded awful and created a lot of drag. I didn't actually roller skate.....I only used the skates for wheels on My home made scooter......a 2x4, with a old wood milk crate and two wood handles to hold on to. Hardest thing in the world to try to nail anything into the wood of those milk crates. Smile, Wink & Grin  And yes...our milk was delivered with a horse and wagon as was our ice for our modern ice box (refrigerator). Coal was delivered by a solid tire Mack chain drive dump truck to feed the octopus style furnace in the basement......Memories.....

Good Luck on Your project!!Big Smile

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Posted by Jumijo on Friday, August 25, 2017 2:05 PM

Thank you again for another link, Frank. I originally got the idea of paper cobblestone streets from the Arkham layout, set in the early 20th century. My first choice would be some kind of textured plastic or card.

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, August 26, 2017 9:54 AM

Well, as I said I would... here is a picture of textured brick paper used as streets on my wargaming table.

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The paper is HO, but the models are 1/100 scale, so the bricks are a bit large.

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It actually looks better in the picture than in real life. My new 10mm wide angle lens rocks!

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Posted by Jumijo on Saturday, August 26, 2017 1:26 PM

I can definitely see texture in the bricks. It sems to have indentations where the mortar lines are running forground to background, but I can't see any between each brick. Thanks for the photo!

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, August 26, 2017 4:38 PM

For durability (very important in wargaming), I applied multiple layers of Matte Medium. This filled in at least 3/4 of the texture. Sorry.

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Posted by BATMAN on Saturday, August 26, 2017 6:20 PM

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For durability

Durability is why I used Avery labels, It is tough stuff and combined with weathering powders it looks good. Regular paper just couldn't take much wear and tear. Also, the label paper did not peel up at the edges. I had determined that rubber cement was the best glue to hold down regular and craft paper after some experimentation. There may be something I hadn't tried yet, but the self-sticking label paper worked great. 

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Posted by Track fiddler on Saturday, August 26, 2017 9:31 PM

You know what,  I saw this textured paper at Hobby Lobby a couple months ago. I thought it had potential but I wasn't ready to use it for anything yet.  

I thought it could be easily placed between pillars on a foundation barrier wall .  It was thick enough so it would work well.

It would need some doctoring up with color washes for weathering and maybe some painted lines for cracks.  

I don't know,  I thought I'd just throw that one out there.  I'm going to check it out when I get to something like that.

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Posted by xdford on Sunday, August 27, 2017 1:58 AM

Hello there

If you want to go down the path of A4 sticker paper, you could look at http://paperbrick.co.uk/index.php?action=home and generate your own style and size... 

Hope this helps some of you at least

Cheers from Australia

Trevor

 

 

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