What do you use for brick sheet in HO and why?
Has anyone used/seen the JV Models “Dimensional Brick Building Material”? What is it? The website doesn’t say anything. (It’s not paper apparently as that’s a separate product with a different price.)
Thanks,
KL
Neither the Walthers catalog nor any web sites of JV Models dealers indicates whether their Dimensional Brick Building Material is paper, styrene, or something else. It sure looks good, though.
With a Walters catalog price of $6.98 for 3 sheets measuring 4-3/4 x 8-1/2 inches, my guess is that it would be plastic because their paper building materials are $4.98 for 3 sheets.
Well I just happened to have an unopened package of this on my table. I just opened it. At first you get the impression that it’s an embrossed paper with an adhesive on the back. This is not the case. . . there is no adhesive on the back. The sheets appear in fact to be an embrossed sheet with some type of coat over the front that gives it a gloss finishish. There are no instructions included in the package but I would think that the material is meant to be cut and glued. Hope this helps.
Tom Makofski
NorthEastern Wisconsin Free-mo
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So Tom:
It’s paper.
It’s glossy.
It has a brick pattern embossed into it.
Not much different from their other product, it seems.
KL
I sized this to my scale and printed it on clear decal stock. Much cheaper that way!
http://www.2guyzandsumtrains.com/Content/pa=showpage/pid=31.html
Was this with an ALPS (that prints white) or a regular C-M-Y printer?
KL
I received two packages of the JV Models HO scale red brick dimensional building material sheets today. They are a slick, heavy weight paper with the brick pattern printed onto it with what appears to be a very thick layer of ink that give the bricks a 3-dimensional effect.
I am assuming that the sheets have to be cut to shape and glued to a piece of balsa or other stiff wall material with contact cement, like you would do with a sheet of Plastruct brick.