Cobblestone / Brick roads

I am sure Jim P. will chime is on this as well as others. As usual he has some coblestone roadways that are remarkable. There was also someone that made them using some shelving liner and plaster. For the life of me I cannot remember who had posted this but Jim may know.

SIRT used the shelf liner material with a coating of light weight spackle. If he doesn't see this, check one of his posts with the link to his photo albums. He has photos posted there of all his excellent projects.

I like the look of worn paving with just some cobblestones showing through in patches. That way I get away with small pieces of plastic stone material with the edges hidden by light-weight spackle.

Jim

look nice, now if you want to do it by yourself use wall compound and a 1/4 brass square.

Andre.

I used the stamping method too.

Dave

I am looking to achieve the rectangle, brick road look. The stamping seems to work well for the round cobblestones. I am not sure that would work as well for rectangle, unless I could make some type of test amp that includes 3 or 4 rows of blocks.

I am starting to scribe the bricks by hand to see what effect I can achieve. A brick (3.5" by 8.5") is extremely small to scribe by hand. Maybe I am going insane. I just cant bring myself to pay 25 bucks for a 6 by 12 sheet, but if I am going to spend hours trying to do this by hand.... 

This is the first side of the train level platform on my Union Station Project.. long way to go. I think it looks acceptable, will look even better with some color.

Looks good to me. At least you are doing a running pattern. Imagine doing a herring bone pattern. I certainly can't! Would be way too tedious for me.

A herring bone is how they laid the bricks in at the IGN / MoPac Depot when it was built. They razed that depot in the 50's and it was a dirt parking lot for 60 years. There was a rut in the dirt and the brick was exposed, still in the herring bone pattern but loose. A couple bricks wandered into my car, lol. They've since put in concrete sidewalks.

Zett,

the brick look ok but honestly try to stamp it using brass rectangle. is tedious but the result is not bad at all.

my 2 cents

Andre.

Zett,

I vote you carry on!     Of course you are insane.  We all are.   But IMO it is the inevitable small imperfections and overall randomness of a hand-done pattern that gives a fully-scratchbuilt model its character and that extra shot of realism that you just can't buy.   

It kind of reminds me of the two weeks I spent with pinking shears using Vulcan's technique to make the shingles for my MOV shed awhile ago.  The result is not perfect, but that is the point.

BTW:  what is the material that you are scribing?