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Cheer up our Gordon and welcome to the unfinished modellers club!! or look at it this way you could become a member of the "Gunners" club they specialise in Im gunner build one of those one day or another way to look at it is call it enthusiastic about building new projects we all do it -Im a member of all these clubs and my latest thoughts (or "gunners" thoughts) are on building French buildings to fit in with the announcement of MINI ARTS European tram so whats in the unfinished box you name it and its there.
And Chuck you have started me "dribbling" again its just amazing stuff !!
Barney

Thanks! Gordon, the grain is done with gousch. I lightly Dulcote the wood first. Still playing with it, its not as good as Ray Dunakin did with his miners wall that's for sure!

I spent a hot afternoon at the bench working on some bricks I had printed a while back. Several bricks were placed a tad askew (hard to see without sidelight) for a more random effect. Textured with a dental pick and xacto, primed with Kylon brown primer, painted with various bricky colours and mortared with wallboard compound with grey pigments mixed in.

Kind of a quick test to see if this has any hope. I'm still driving it around the block. First modeling in a long while.



       

The bricks are individually made, then imported into an assembly and patterned. Then I supressed random pattern instances and brought in seperate askew bricks.

   
      

It doesn't look especially bad. -- Russ

My 1:12 brick mould from Diorama Debris should turn up soon. Hopefully it will give me a similar result.

Nice texture on those bricks.

Nope
keep driving around the block, in fact go for a road trip
these do not work for me
Yea right
if you had the magic penny I would have fell off my chair
if you do bricks now what's left for us
great job, love the color
MPH

Quoteif you do bricks now Huh what's left for us

barbie dolls & castles................

Dallas did the I dismember Barbie thing already. 

Good to see you back at it.  I guess as hot as it is there you can just put the bricks in the sun instead of firing up the kiln.
Nice coloring.

Jerry

I think if you work yer magic on coloring the surfaces of those bricks ...

Wow Chuck, you make it sound so easy, just mucking around at the bench one afternoon ...looks very nice to me, just the right amount of askews and edges knocked off.

Cheers
JT

I would say there's plenty of hope for them.

Some boring door details:



Crusty address numbers. 1/16th scale, made from Grandt Line model RR numbers. Approx. .18 inch high. "Nails" are .012 diameter brass wire.





Doorbell, 3D printed with .020 styrene rod button and brass wire screws applied.

Anything but boring.
Fantastic details.