These scale to 3 courses to about 8.73" (let's round up to 8 3/4" for sanity's sake). Modern modular brick is 3 courses to 8". I've worked on and surveyed a lot of older buildings and usually find that 3 courses is usually more than 8" and sometimes up to 9". Rounded edges could be good to give that weather beaten look. So the Plastistruct appears to be a good product for running common bond for older buildings except:
Older brick buildings are usually multi-wythe which means the wall is 2 or more bricks thick or with some other wall core material. A lot of times they would lay bricks with short end out to tie the face wythes together or to the core material about every 6th course. This was called a stretcher course. There are many other bond patterns (Flemish bond, English bond...). Then of course there are sailor courses, soldier courses, corbelling, crenellation and etc. Historic brick patterns are not as simple as one might think. Ben Trousdale Very frosty Minneapolis where a cold solid brick wall can stay cold for a very long time. --- In [email protected], "meldridge2000" <ssc...@...> wrote: > > Plastruct HO rough brick sheet, part #91605, has 22 courses per inch, > which I figure scales to 2.9 inches per course in S. The bricks in > front of my house are 2.5 inches tall, so with a .4 inch mortar in > place of the normal .5 inch, it is good for S. The Plastruct bricks > look slightly rounded to me, so if you need them to be flat with sharp > edges, you probably should have some laser cut. Better yet, have a > pattern laser cut, and then cast them for the rest of us. > > -Michael Eldridge > -San Jose, CA > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
