Looking for quick, free, way to create brick and stone walls surfaces for your buildings?
Visit http://paperbrick.co.uk/
It’s a wonderful resource of free brick images that can be printed out and stuck onto models. You can generate your own random pattern of bricks in all the main scales – OO, N, HO, O etc – and then print them out.
Take a look now.
> UPDATE: Since this was written, paperbrick.co.uk seems to have been taken down and is no longer available. An alternative site is http://www.wordsworthmodelrailway.co.uk/brickpaper.html. This site — https://www.sketchuptextureclub.com/ — could also prove useful.
There’s also http://texturelib.com/ — a library of quality high-resolution material textures that can be scaled and printed. Materials include brick, stone, concrete, asphalt, rock and wood.
I’d love to see what you make with these.
> A final, personal, note: I spend a huge amount of time testing, photographing, writing and researching techniques for these articles and pay for all the running costs of MRE out of my own pocket. If you found this article useful you can support me by making a donation on my fund-raising page. Thanks and happy modelling, Andy.
Andy is a lifelong modeler, writer, and founder of modelrailwayengineer.com. He has been building model railways, dioramas, and miniatures for over 20 years. His passion for model making and railways began when he was a child, building his first layout at the age of seven.
Andy’s particular passion is making scenery and structures in 4mm scale, which he sells commercially. He is particularly interested in modelling the railways of South West England during the late Victorian/early Edwardian era, although he also enjoys making sci-fi and fantasy figures and dioramas. His website has won several awards, and he is a member of MERG (Model Railway Electronics Group) and the 009 Society.
When not making models, Andy lives in Surrey with his wife and teenage son. Other interests include history, science fiction, photography, and programming. Read more about Andy.