True 1/87 scale brick sheets

[restorator]

Where might be a good place to locate properly scaled (and reasonably priced) brick sheet? And what brands are accurate? Many of the items I find are actually 1/100 even though they advertise them for ho scale. I can see the difference, and I don't want to keep wasting money. 

[RR_Mel]

For Styrene sheet bricks I go with random stone.  I use pressed paper (Chipboard/Cardboard) brick sheets.  The scale it correct and the detail is 100% better than Styrene.

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/5-SHEETS-EMBOSSED-BUMPY-BRICK-stone-paper-21x29cm-SCALE-1-87-HO-CODE-llF8n5a-/312539001416

 

I don’t scratch build as much with brick as I do with scale wood siding.  I do use the brick for foundations on my wooden structures.  The Styrene Random Stone looks great for retaining walls.

 

 

 

Mel

 

 

 

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[SeeYou190]

I have two actual "fine scale" HO scale brick sheets, and I do not like them.

The mortar lines are very thin and shallow, and the bricks are all exactly even. They look terrible.

The slightly oversized and exaggerated bricks we are accustom to look much better.

-Kevin

[jjo]

A great tip, Mel...I will use them...Thanks,

[BATMAN]

Those sheets Mel suggested are great, I have seen them for sale at train shows.

In the past where I needed bricks where the eye could not get too close, I just found nice patterns on Google images and using my trusty ruler to compare with the outside of the wall just printed them off.

The roundhouse I was building mine after had white brick on the inside and so I just printed some test ones off adjusting the size and when I was happy I printed it onto label paper which is sticky on one side.

You can't see the brick well in this photo but in real life it looks great, IMO.

I also print of flooring as well.

 

[OT Dean]

restorator

Where might be a good place to locate properly scaled (and reasonably priced) brick sheet? And what brands are accurate? Many of the items I find are actually 1/100 even though they advertise them for ho scale. I can see the difference, and I don't want to keep wasting money. 

 

I use Plastruct's O scale plastic brick sheets and though a little pricy because of the area of 1/48 walls, they're impressive.  I didn't realize just how impressive they really are until I'd sprayed them with Rust-oleum's "Chalk White" acrylic paint (to simulate whitewash; it's covering the intereior walls of an enginehous).  The sheets are labeled "Rough Brick," which doesn't show very much in their original brick color, but the white paint really shows off the irregular bricks, without a picture perfect evenness.  Here and there are bricks sitting "proud" of the ones surrounding them.  I also like the fact that they're made of a styrene plastic so you can use liquid cement for plastic.  (I use Testors--which is now owned by Rust-oleum!)

Stay safe, everybody.

Deano

[snjroy]

I used a product from Noch to line the inside of a tunnel:

https://www.noch.com/en/brick-wall-55832.html

Sorry, I don't have a picture of the tunnel, it's a portable layout that is packed up. It looks OK from the outside, but I guess that a good colour print could do the job for a tunnel. The Noch product does have a bit of texture. 

Simon