Brick arches

[blueeighties]

Or rather the covering of. I have a Scales cenes bridge kit which I have built up, but would like to clad it with Wills embossed brickwork as I prefer some relief over the flat printed finish. Im a bit stumped as to how to cover the curved arches...obviously the sheets are formed of straight brickwork. Anyone?

[Guest]

Wills do a flexible brick lining designed for viaducts, product code SSMP231:

 

http://www.ehattons.com/40408/Wills_Kits_SSMP231_Viaduct_Brick_lining_flexible_4_sheets/StockDetail.aspx

 

Should be a good match for the more rigid Wills sheets.

 

Edit: ...or do you mean the wedge-shaped external bricks or stones... keystone, springers and voussoirs? If so, Wills also do an overlay kit SS55 but for exactly the right size/shape, you can cut them individually from plastic sheet of an appropriate thickness and shape/round them with fine wet & dry.

[allan downes]

Ratio 521 Industrial Red Brick Window Arches

 

Only £3.95Currently in stock & available to ship

 

Brand:

 

Ratio

 

Part Number:

 

521

 

Scale / Type:

 

OO Scale

 

 

Go to Gaugemaster site for illustration.

 

Cheers.

Allan

[allan downes]

Or this might be better.

 

SS80

Wills Kits

3 arch viaduct plastic kit

OO Gauge (1:76 Scale)

£21

 

Or you could make your own such as this.

 

 

[kandc_au]

There is another option:

Emboss the Scalescenes kit.

Glue the parts on the card and once COMPLETELY drygo over it all with a BLUNT blade or a probe that has been rounded off.

In OO there is not much embossing needed at the best of times, so you will have the best of both worlds!

 

Khris

[Nearholmer]

Blue

 

Which bridge is it that you are dealing with?

 

I ask, because every Scalescenes bridge that I can google has horizontal (straight) brick courses, except for the crown of the arch. Non-horizontal courses are pretty rare in reality.

 

If it is only the crown that you are worried about, it is pretty simple to cut a crown-shape from plasticard the same thickness as whatever plastic brick overlay you are using, scribe the bricks onto it, and to cut a section out of the overlay to accommodate it. You can do the same with flush sills and lintels. Slaters certainly used to sell sheets of arch-crowns, and curved heads to go over windows, which saved the (tiny) effort of scribing the bricks onto plain plasticard.

 

Hope that is helpful, Kevin

[blueeighties]

Thanks for the suggestions. I think the plasticard covered with Das or suchlike and then scribed is probably the way I will go.

[Campaman]

if you use the same thickness plastic as the brick sheets, just scribe direct onto the plastic, no need to cover with DAS or similar