ONE BUILDING AT A TIME
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Well troops, I hope you like this photo, but actually I just took it so I could
show you the technique I used for the brick building. This is a little idea
I came up with for you guys to make your building customizing and town scenes
a little easier. All you do is just get a bunch of big boxes, cut out some
holes for doors and windows, and cover it like wallpaper with the brick texture
that I've made for you. And you can click here
to get it. You're not going to be able to download this onto your hard drive,
but all you have to do is once you get to the brick texture page, just hit
print on your brower and type in the number of copies you need. Make sure
when you're cutting these things out to get all the edges sharp, because your
wallpaper has to be even, or you'll get a very uneven look when you paste them
together. You might want to flip each piece over on the back after you've printed it
and mark which side is the top. Because when you paste them together and cover
your building, you need to make sure that the tops and the bottoms are all glued
on the same way. I usually just print it out on a sturdy stock paper, cut it out with
a papercutter or exacto knife with ruler, then cover the back with glue (I used just
standard paper glue), and stick it to your box. The reason why I use the sturdier
stock paper is because it doesn't warp when you put glue on the back. Actually,
I just cut the windows and the doors out first, then completely covered them with
the brick, then I cut a hole with an exacto knife right in the middle where the door
or window would be, used a pair of scissors to cut from the center to each of the
four corners of the door or window, then just simply folded the flaps inward and glued
them down to the inside of the box. Of course, with door frames and window frames,
you can get a lot more creative than I did here. Mine is just in it's basic form.
You know you could cut pieces of cardboard and wrap them with pieces of the brick,
and use them for brick ledges above the doors and below the window. You might want to take a little bit of maroon and
white, and touch up some of the places after you're done just to make it flow a little
more evenly and realistically. Well, I think that's about it men. I plan on in the
future of having a page dedicated to stuff like this for building 1/6th scale Sam
houses. I sort of stole the idea from architects which use a smaller version of
this to make their scale models. I guess that one year of drafting in high school
came in use after all. If any of you guys want to get busy and make some 1/6th
scale pieces that we all can print out and glue on such as door frames, window frames,
and the like, be sure to send them in, and I'll be glad to post them in this section.
Hopefully we can get a lot of different texture for walls (such as stone), and a lot of add on
pieces like door frames, like I mentioned earlier. Well guys, have fun! -- GL
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