shawngehling
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Quick Bases - Brick Roads
How to make a “Brick Road” Quick Base:
Items needed:
1. Inexpensive “Dollar Store” picture frame.
2. Foam-core board (paper/foam/paper).
3.Various acrylic paints.
4.Paint brushes.
5.Artist Pastels (“Alphacolor” Earth Tones).
6.Hobby-knife.
7.White glue (“Elmers” all purpose glue).
8.“Noch” Plastic vac-u-form brick Sheet (Gray #6006 & Tan #6005) I don’t know if NOCH still makes this item? I have also scribed the brickwork into the foam-core board with the dull side of a hobby-knife. You can remove one side of the paper and scribe the brickwork into the foam for a more worn and damaged look.
9.If using the “Noch” brickwork, either leave it the color it comes or it can be painted “ColorPlace” Red Oxide Primer (#20011) and sealed with “ColorPlace” Clear (#20014). If you are making the brickwork out of foam-core board only use acrylic paints as oil based paints will eat away at the foam-core board.
10.Felt pads.
a. Start with a “dollar store” 5 2/8” X 10 5/8” picture frame (exterior dimensions of approximately 6 5/8” X 12”). They have two types at our “Dollar Store” plastic, which has a picture in it and wooden, which holds two 3” X 5” photos.
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Discard the glass and cardboard backing. Remove the wall hanging hardware if there is any already attached.
b.Using your hobby-knife, cut the foam-core board to fit the frame, and bend the holders to secure the foam-core board.
c.Remove the foam-core board from the frame. Insert the “NOCH” brick sheet, which fits right into the frame or paint and seal it a red brick color.
Or Verlinden makes a 3-D paper sheet of brick work.
If you don’t have the plastic brickwork sheet and you are going to scribe the brickwork into the foam-core board do it now. You can also remove one side of the paper on the foam-core board and then scribed the bricks into it. It gives it a more worn and damaged look. Secure it to the foam-core board with your “Elmers” all purpose white glue.
d.Paint the brick the color that you want. Red or Tan for a desert scene.
e.Give it a heavy black wash (black acrylic paint watered down).
f.When dry, Dry-brush lighter shades of dust or dirt, until you get the desired look.
g.When completely dry, flip it over and attach the self-adhesive type felt pads and you are ready to display a model.
h.If you want more dirt/dust for your base, use ground up pastel chalk to add more realism.
Let your imagination run wild.
I will post other "Quick Bases" that I have built (non brick road) also.
Shawn
How to make a “Brick Road” Quick Base:
Items needed:
1. Inexpensive “Dollar Store” picture frame.
2. Foam-core board (paper/foam/paper).
3.Various acrylic paints.
4.Paint brushes.
5.Artist Pastels (“Alphacolor” Earth Tones).
6.Hobby-knife.
7.White glue (“Elmers” all purpose glue).
8.“Noch” Plastic vac-u-form brick Sheet (Gray #6006 & Tan #6005) I don’t know if NOCH still makes this item? I have also scribed the brickwork into the foam-core board with the dull side of a hobby-knife. You can remove one side of the paper and scribe the brickwork into the foam for a more worn and damaged look.
9.If using the “Noch” brickwork, either leave it the color it comes or it can be painted “ColorPlace” Red Oxide Primer (#20011) and sealed with “ColorPlace” Clear (#20014). If you are making the brickwork out of foam-core board only use acrylic paints as oil based paints will eat away at the foam-core board.
10.Felt pads.
a. Start with a “dollar store” 5 2/8” X 10 5/8” picture frame (exterior dimensions of approximately 6 5/8” X 12”). They have two types at our “Dollar Store” plastic, which has a picture in it and wooden, which holds two 3” X 5” photos.
![a_base_frame_01_20100207_1034943719.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2F%5Bimg%5Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.tanksandthings.com%2Fimages%2Fstories%2Fimg_originals%2Fshawngehling_70%2Fa_base_frame_01_20100207_1034943719.jpg&hash=e7fd000cae4d9c12a12ed151672d5c74)
Discard the glass and cardboard backing. Remove the wall hanging hardware if there is any already attached.
b.Using your hobby-knife, cut the foam-core board to fit the frame, and bend the holders to secure the foam-core board.
![base_frames_with_phomecore_board_20100207_1401134185.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tanksandthings.com%2Fimages%2Fstories%2Fimg_originals%2Fshawngehling_70%2Fbase_frames_with_phomecore_board_20100207_1401134185.jpg&hash=d462ab40319dc4c108a72800fa09192e)
c.Remove the foam-core board from the frame. Insert the “NOCH” brick sheet, which fits right into the frame or paint and seal it a red brick color.
![redbrick_base_weathered_20100207_1017552329.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tanksandthings.com%2Fimages%2Fstories%2Fimg_originals%2Fshawngehling_70%2Fredbrick_base_weathered_20100207_1017552329.jpg&hash=03e8accbc3c22e5c2c3d1f975a7f814d)
![sand_brick_quick_base_in_frame_20100207_2046164684.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tanksandthings.com%2Fimages%2Fstories%2Fimg_originals%2Fshawngehling_70%2Fsand_brick_quick_base_in_frame_20100207_2046164684.jpg&hash=4dfad63265931f285d452ebb24c4560c)
Or Verlinden makes a 3-D paper sheet of brick work.
![quickbase_roadway_20100207_1408878053.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tanksandthings.com%2Fimages%2Fstories%2Fimg_originals%2Fshawngehling_70%2Fquickbase_roadway_20100207_1408878053.jpg&hash=446504bf0fc57c9cdb9e29467d43832f)
If you don’t have the plastic brickwork sheet and you are going to scribe the brickwork into the foam-core board do it now. You can also remove one side of the paper on the foam-core board and then scribed the bricks into it. It gives it a more worn and damaged look. Secure it to the foam-core board with your “Elmers” all purpose white glue.
d.Paint the brick the color that you want. Red or Tan for a desert scene.
e.Give it a heavy black wash (black acrylic paint watered down).
f.When dry, Dry-brush lighter shades of dust or dirt, until you get the desired look.
g.When completely dry, flip it over and attach the self-adhesive type felt pads and you are ready to display a model.
h.If you want more dirt/dust for your base, use ground up pastel chalk to add more realism.
Let your imagination run wild.
I will post other "Quick Bases" that I have built (non brick road) also.
Shawn