John Nehrich mewntions that he made decals from photos of brick walls that he applies over brick textured plastic. The decal covers all the color variations while the underlying plastic - even if out of scale - adds texture. Does anyone make decals like this?
TIA,
KL
Probably not because there are too many different types and sizes of plastic brick sheets and there would not be much of a market for such decals.
id say no, probably why he makes them hisself
Micor-Mark sells construction paper with either red or yellow brick designs and an adhesive backing. You get 4 sheets in each pack. They also have cinder block, cut stone, random stone, and shingles in various colors. I’ve used these on several projects around my layout and was well pleased with the results. Tweet
Actually this was sort of an advantage, he claimed. Many of the kit patterns and sheets are out of scale, different sizes, and so forth. By using decals the variation disappear into a general texture behind the regular pattern and varied coloring of the decal.
KL
Well, the article was written five years ago. I thought perhaps there had been some new products released since then 
KL
I saw that, but the coloring looked pretty uniform. Is it? Do you apply these to surfaces that already have brick texture molded in?
KL
Try this site:
http://home.wanadoo.nl/schatborn/index2.html
They have many brick patterns and a whole load of other stuff. Just copy, paste and print. It’s absolutely free. What more could you ask for.
This might help too!
http://www.2guyzandsumtrains.com/Content/pa=showpage/pid=31.html
BTW, if you copy and paste these into a word document then you can resize them to any size you want!
Some of these are better then others, but some are quite good. Check it out!
Click to enlarge
Evans Designs has a brick and stone design software on cd, couldn’t this or one of the free downloads be printed on decal paper instead of regular paper?
I don’t see any reason why not.
Decals.
KL
Reason #1: Mortar and some bricks have strong white/gray color components. Other than the OOP ALPS printers, you can’t print white.
I thought about applying the decals over a white painted surface, but the patterns would have to be altered to be transparent instead of white somehow, but only in some areas or to limited extents. Sounds like custom decals would be easier.
KL
I agree, we could use decals of wood decks for flatcars,etc too.