Making a brick wall from Depron -Finished-

[Richi72]

Hi guy,s and girls,

After a couple of questions about the walls of my Dutch building, I thought, I would show you how I did that. There are definitely a lot of other ways like pouring them with plaster making them out of wood buying a model like the Miniart ones or Verlinden and so on, but I like to scratch so I make them myself.

If anyone like to join in please do, and don’t hesitate to ask any related questions.

I made a little template for a brick wall with a window and a door in it.

You can download it for A4 and US Letter size

So now to the what do I need question,

1. Piece of depron foam best is 6mm or blue foam or something that is equal to that.

2. Sharp knife or Scalpel

3. Some foam friendly glue

4. A ruler

5. adhesive tape

6. Some permanent markers with a small tip

7. Some paint, best is red for the bricks but any color will do

8. Plaster to make the mortar between the stones

That’s it

, and so we cut out the whole template.

here are the pictures

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After printing out the templates we put them on the foam with some adhesive tape

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then we take the scalpel and cut in the small side of the stones not to deep 1MM is enough

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now we put the ruler on the long side and cut again 1MM deep

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after a couple of lines it would look like this

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and wen we are done this is what it should look like

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after cutting the whole wall we take the marker and we start to draw each brick separately.

more later on

Cheers Richi

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[Richi72]

Part 2

after drawing each brick separately your wall should be looking something like this

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here we can see the purpose of the marker we see a clear stone but none of them are the same accept for size

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we cut the window and door pieces

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when this is all done we cut out the door and window out of the wall

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we glue the window and door pieces to the wall

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then we use the marker again to define the stones (this time in Red)

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when the glue has set we can paint everything orange it doesn’t have to be pretty and it doesn’t have to be all covered.

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so the wall needs to dry for a while, so i will be back later

Cheers Richi

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[Richi72]

Part 3

After the paint is dry it would look something like this my orange is a little translucent but that’s fine.

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Now we make a nice thin solution of plaster, it should have the consistency like a thin yogurt this is important because it has to flow a little

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Here is the plaster on the wall; you can see that it is flowing a little so it can reach all the gabs

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After a couple of minutes you take a sponge thingy and carefully wipe of the bricks don’t damage the plaster in the gabs. If you wipe the plaster out of the gabs you can put new plaster on it and try again.

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Here are a couple of pictures with the plaster still wet. Because the plaster is a very thin solution (more water than usual) the plaster will sink in the gabs when it starts to dry, vaporizing water and so on but you know what I mean.

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Now we wait 2 to 3 hours until the plaster has dried and see what it looks like.

Cheers Richi

[spanner570]

Excellent tutorial Richie.

Nicely laid out and great stage by stage description.

Thanks for taking the time to post the thread.

Ron

[Andy2035]

Hi Richi,

I agree with Mr Ron, I found this very easy to follow...

Thank you...

Andy...

[Richi72]

Thanks Ron, and Andy

much appreciated

Cheers Richi,

[Guest]

Looks like a wall! Which is... I think... The general idea

Great tutorial Richi, nice and easy step-by-step to follow with an impressive result.

[Richi72]

Hi Colin,

well I got the inspiration from you.

simple, easy to copy and great potential, learned that from your easy diorama setup.

So thank you

Cheers Richi

[Richi72]

Part 4

After the drying period I should like this

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Then we take an old big brush and we use it to dust the wall of and it will look like this

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Now we have a couple of options the left side is dry brushed with red and orange tones the gabs between the stones stay mostly the color of the plaster you use.

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The right side is completely painted this includes the gabs between the stones.

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Then we take some dark red, blue, yellow and any other color you like.

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We start to paint single bricks in a different color, it looks better and most of all more realistic

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close up

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close up

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well now we wait until it is dry again

next up is blending and washing

cheers Richi

[Guest]

very nice tutorial, thanks

[eddiesolo]

Some excellent tip there Richi, well done and thanks for that, a big help to others wanting to create walls, houses or any other structures.

Si

[monica]

hi Richie

Fantastic and Excellent tutorial, well done with the step by step very clear and easy to follow

thank you so very much its rely appreciated

[flyjoe180]

Thanks for sharing these tips Rich

[Richi72]

Part 5

Well the walls are dry and now we try the wash and blending trick

A wash,

is used to put a shadow or fill up deeper parts in a model that should seem darker than the rest of the surroundings, well with the wall we can use the washing to fill in the gabs between the stones but this time we use a bright wash to define those gabs between the stones. Because the wash is thin it wouldn’t affect the stones as much as a blending would so we can achieve a nice mortar color.

The Blending

Is used to make the different colors of an object seem closer to each other, more in the same color pallet or let it look if it’s all together. I hope you understand what I mean can’t find a real good description for it but if we take a look at the pictures I hope it becomes clear what I mean.

Here is the wall completely dry

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Here we used a wash of yellow on the left side we can see how nice the gabs have been filed.

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On the right side we used a cement color not as thin as the wash, to blend all the stones together and as you see it files up the gabs to, it makes a nice gray mortar color.

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stil wet

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Almost dry

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in part 6 we will do some little dry brushing and then i think the wall is done.

until later

Cheers Richi

[monica]

hi Richi

excellent tip there , real good tip and thanks for sharing

cheers