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Winston-Salem Southbound Series: Modeling brick-paved trackwork
Shapeway.com has brick rollers that leave the various brick impressions like your stamp and include the flangeway groves . Some have a attachment borders for outside the track area.
Great modeling technique David. Does the gray colored clay simulate a concrete surface? I guess one could use that clay for roadway crossings also with an appropriate color simulating asphalt? you could make a brick imprint by scribing a wood block with a mat knife too. thanks.
Great idea! I am really enjoying this series!
I liked the look of the clay but I was thinking that when stamping maybe wetting the stamp would keep it from sticking and maybe help with the impression , also instead of painting just us powders for weathering may bring out more detail really like to see trying new technique looks like something Ill try keep up the great videos
Very interesting - something I might use between the rails on a branch/industrial track.
Adding a strip(s) of N scale roadbed or possibly .080(?) styrene (something near the height of the ties) between the two tracks would reduce the amount of clay needed. However, would that reduce the thickness of the clay too much? More importantly, would the cost of the roadbed/styrene be more than the cost of the clay saved? Just a thought.
One more thought - if this is a place where fine materials are delivered or shipped, most of the gaps between the bricks would be filled. Unlike city roads/streets, this area would be cleaned irregularly, if at all. Possibly take a dull (the back side of a?) #11 Xacto blade and highlight some areas of the pattern, but leave the rest of the gaps (mortar lines - actually probably sand-filled gaps) almost “invisible”.
David, as a Brit living over here the DAS clay method has been used for many years back home. With regards to making a textured surface a lot of people actually scribe individual bricks in to the clay. A great modeller who uses this stuff is a chap by the name of Chris Nevard check out his page and blog, and a UK forum that is very active RMweb both sites are useful to non subscribers of UK magazines
Hello David,
in europe there is a small supplier who offers pavement rollers for DAS surfaces in scales from Z to H0.
The stamps or rollers are 3D printed and could be ordered via Shapeways.
http://railnscale.com/2015/06/20/tools-paving-rollers/
Markus
Again a great video and I like that new methods are being tried out.
Another way I have seen again could be tedious if you have a large area to do is using a cut off ballpoint pen, this is ideal for cobblestones and a brass brush pen elongated/ squished to make more of a rough brick shape to stamp individual stones/brick. A tedious and long winded way but it renders great results.
A very interesting way of doing it. Although you didn’t seem to like it that much David. Of course that is just my impression from watching the video. I do have a question for you David that has nothing to do with this vid. Have you started working on another home layout, being that your old Naugatuck layout is gone?
Here in England, we use a piece of hollow brass rectangle shape which is the size of a brick, and push the end into the DAS clay repeatedly to make a brick course, quite quick when you get going.
Might an india ink wash have worked better than the grimy black paint to highlight the bricks? I would think that it would flow through the mortar joints better than the paint did.