Best representation of a house brick.

Kevin_Hyatt

I want to replicate a pattern of house bricks on the side of a real building but not sure of best elements to use.
I started with 1 1x2 plate = 1 house brick but it looks to lack height. Then I tried with 1x2 brick and looks too high. Thought maybe 2 stacked 1x2 plates = 1 house brick?

Any opinions?

Sethro3

You will automatically have to think of scale.

Certainly they have SNOT techniques with the 1x2 tile, or even the new masonry bricks, but those would be 3 plates high.

Kevin_Hyatt

Hadn't thought of snotting. The new masonry bricks are a no go because if lack of colours.

Shib

Are you building something to 'minifigure scale'? is so don't forget that a minifigure's proportions are wider than tall - I've seen some builds that have used 1x2 plates for the entire thing to give a look of brickwork and it's not bad when completed. The bigger issue to my mind was that the shine of the plastic normally takes away from anything like that anyway.

Kevin_Hyatt

It's a Brick mural I'm doing so not to any particular scale. It's quite big, the original is 30k bricks or so! I don't want to start building only to get so far and it look squashed or stretched.
Maybe doing a patch in ldd might be the way to go first?

Shib

I think the one problem you'll have with 2 1x2 plates stacked is that the line between them will be just as visible as the line between the parts that you want to show.

I think prototyping is probably the only way you'll see it, I don't think LDD will show the divides well enough, unless you render it.

MrShinyAndNew

I haven't tried it, but maybe a 1x2 jumper, new-style with the groove underneath, placed under a 1x2 plate, would give a little extra definition to the wall. You'd need a lot of new jumpers though, and the old ones don't have the groove so they wouldn't work.

MAGNINOMINISUMBRA

^ don't recall seeing this technique - sounds interesting...

MrShinyAndNew

Here is a sample image using tan 2x1 plates and jumpers. The top section is 2 tan plates making a brick, the bottom section is one tan plate making bricks, and the middle uses the jumpers. The effect is subtle, but it's nice.


The big drawback, of course, is how parts-intensive it is.