That depends on the age and location they're from. Where I live many bricks almost have a glass like surface texture and I don't know if they mixed the clay with glass (or some sand that melted) or if they're glazed?
These bricks I'm thinking of are ~100 years old.
Bricks tends to be different from village to village depending where they were made, but I agree that the most common red brick is matt by nature.
Repairs and extensions tends to be clearly visible since it's often impossible to get the exact right shade of colour and this could be used to an advantage when modelling I think, like if you're building a house and there's an extension somewhere?
Mortar (lime mortar) is also an important factor when making something bricked and if you have the stamina to paint just the grout in a grey-ish colour before adding wash and weathering it would make it more realistic. Moss tends to grow on grout and this can be done with streaking grime.
Funny fact: Where I live our houses are mainly built out of unfired clay bricks that are whitewashed. Me and a friend started major restoration work about the same time but he was a bit ahead. He pulled down a wall and stacked all the bricks on a wooden pallet outside so he could use them again when he was rebuilding that wall section. A heavy rain front hit us and it rained for four days and when he went to check on his bricks he had a pallet with a big lump of soft clay... I would've done the same so I was glad that he told me this
I'm thorough when I whitewash my house ever since!
These bricks I'm thinking of are ~100 years old.
Bricks tends to be different from village to village depending where they were made, but I agree that the most common red brick is matt by nature.
Repairs and extensions tends to be clearly visible since it's often impossible to get the exact right shade of colour and this could be used to an advantage when modelling I think, like if you're building a house and there's an extension somewhere?
Mortar (lime mortar) is also an important factor when making something bricked and if you have the stamina to paint just the grout in a grey-ish colour before adding wash and weathering it would make it more realistic. Moss tends to grow on grout and this can be done with streaking grime.
Funny fact: Where I live our houses are mainly built out of unfired clay bricks that are whitewashed. Me and a friend started major restoration work about the same time but he was a bit ahead. He pulled down a wall and stacked all the bricks on a wooden pallet outside so he could use them again when he was rebuilding that wall section. A heavy rain front hit us and it rained for four days and when he went to check on his bricks he had a pallet with a big lump of soft clay... I would've done the same so I was glad that he told me this
I'm thorough when I whitewash my house ever since!
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