There are 70 centimeters of rough old brick wall to build for the backscene behind the goods yard on the club layout, and the same length of footpath to go with it.
The walls are 3mm foamboard, marked out as shown in the previous post. A quick and patchy coat of grey acrylic is followed by picking out all the individual bricks with a nice brick red colour, it takes a while, but it's strangely relaxing.
Random bricks are either lightened or darkened and a light grey/white mixture of mostly water and little paint is run into selected mortar joints and the excess dabbed off with a moist tissue. A dusting over with weathering powder made from Reeves soft chalk pastels takes any shine off the acrylic paint.
The brick pillars are stacks of 3mm foamboard squares stuck together with banner tape for speed. The bricks are impressed between the joints with my trusty dibber. the pillars are coloured in the same way as the walling.
The footpath is again just 3mm foamboard, scribed, and then coloured by painting on a generous coating of dark acrylic, then wiping most of it off with a dry cloth leaving paint in the scribed lines
The wall still needs some form of capping stones before it gets plonked into place on the club layout.
It's not perfect, but then again, 'It aint Pendon'
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