For more years than I care to remember now, I have had this Noch Brickpaper in my bag of styrene sheets. I like the look of the relief in the mortar courses and it's also quite photo-realistic. I thought I could make a use for it. Though so much time has passed since I bought it, that I can't remember what I use I had in mind for it. But I kept the product anyway, like you do...
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| A very nice looking product from Noch |
The label says that it is for HO and TT scale. Though there's no way that it is for those scales. The bricks are even too big for O scale and G scale. Take a look at the close up below. You can also see how nice the product actually is.
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| Approximately 12mm x 3.5mm in size. Too big for G scale even |
I naturally wondered how the size of the brick fared up in 16mm scale. Many modellers know that pre-1965 and also pre-metric system bricks could vary in size by manufacturer. So I felt that if this brick sheet was even close to any one size they would do. I was about to set to on some brick size research and I suddenly remembered that there was a drawing of some scale sized brick course in Roy C. Link's Crowsnest Tramway book. The easiest thing to do was measure that. What do you know? It was an exact match for size.
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| A building shell covered with the brick paper. The effect is good. |
Spurred on by this, I immediately made up a building shell to fit the planned area. It's semi relief, so does not have the full depth of a building, then again, neither does the building next to it. But I think it'll be enough, and the overall effect is great. I'm out of stock of this brick paper now. So, I'll have see if I can find some more. It's been such a long time since I bought it I don't know if my local hobby shop still stocks it.
Clearly it does pay to keep hold of things even if you can't remember why you bought it.
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