Am looking for suggestions: Need to cover a number of HO structures with simulated brick or stone. Not “into” paint so my thought is to glue paper to the sides. Problem: Need about 12 feet x @ 6 inches. (Would be nice to be able to get either a roll or large sheets to cut to size.)
Bigger problem: Very limited budget. As always, many thanks.
This web site has a great selection of textures available for free download:
You need to sign up. I’ve done that and it’s perfectly safe and spam-free.
Find a few brick textures and download them. I usually use MS Word to put a texture on the page and size it. Then, copy it and reproduce the small tile until you have what you want. Most of the textures are designed to match up left-to-right and top-to-bottom so you can create a large brick wall, print it, cut it out and glue it on.
I like Aileen’s Tacky Glue for this, by the way. It holds well and doesn’t penetrate the paper and ruin the image.
Mister Beasley: Thanks for the link.
A couple more sources:
http://mayang.com/textures/Architectural/html/Brick/index.html
http://textures.forrest.cz/ Brick is under the “Stone” caragory
or
for $1.99 you could download an 8 1/2 x 11 PDF file of brick pape in your scale from
http://clevermodels.squarespace.com/ This would save some work combining tiles and resizing to the proper scale.
DSchmitt: Appreciate your assistance.
While I am a firm believer in the cgtextures (I do a lot of it myself, usually over reinforced pieces of 0.03" sheet styrene), there are lots of commercially available wall sheets which have a little more texture to them. Assuming you’re looking for a full colored version which you don’t need to paint:
Chooch makes peel and stick version for different kinds of rock in HO and N.
Noch makes cardstock sheets (called Wallcards) in both HO and N
John Rendall Models also makes sheets which are pre-painted (don’t remember offhand whether these are styrene or cardstock) in HO and N
DPM makes styrene walls which are cast in a realistic shade of red, and would require only a light wash of gray / cream / dirty white / concrete color to make them look realistic.
The site below has a brick generating program. Lots of different colors and styles. It saves as a PDF file and then you print it out.
http://paperbrick.co.uk/index.php?action=home
Steve s
CTValley RR: Miss the northeast. Steve S: Thanks to you both for the advice.
Useful link, Thankyou Steve