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Topic: build fake brick wall

Posted By: george
Subject: build fake brick wall
Date Posted: 7/11/09 at 3:52pm

Hi,

I have to build a 3D brick wall (circa 1850) on stage.

Problems...

1-fake bricks?

2-fake mortar?

3-clean up

I'm stumped. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

~george

Replies:

Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 7/11/09 at 9:06pm

Check out this on this site := forum_posts.asp?TID=4090 - Stone Wall

Or search for 'Faux brick'.

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Joe
Western Gondawandaland
turn right @ Perth.
Hear the light & see the sound.
Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"}
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Posted By: David McCall
Date Posted: 7/11/09 at 10:56pm

I think George needs to build the wall during a scene. As in plop down some mortar, and plonk a brick or stone into the wet mortar and repeat as needed.

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David M

Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 7/11/09 at 11:49pm

Bewdy DMc!

I was certainly up agum tree, with that one!

Chookas David!

In that case, I think a 'Stage Cloth' might be the order of the scene?

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Joe
Western Gondawandaland
turn right @ Perth.
Hear the light & see the sound.
Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"}
May you always play
to a full house}

Posted By: george
Date Posted: 7/13/09 at 11:21am

Yes David is correct. I need to slowly create a wall from beggining to end, brick after brick, row after row. I actually posted a suggestion on the string you directed me to. And all fake brick sited are 2 dimensional. And the one place I found individual fake bricks, they were cost prohibitive.

What does Joe mean by "stage cloth"?

george

Posted By: David McCall
Date Posted: 7/13/09 at 1:35pm

How big is this wall when it is finnished?

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David M

Posted By: george
Date Posted: 7/13/09 at 3:14pm

5 ft wide, 7 ft tall

Posted By: vickifrank
Date Posted: 7/15/09 at 2:07pm

You can make fairly credible bricks from 2 two by four scraps (screw two together to get the right height), then spray painted with speckle paint, or painted with paint and then textured with a brush. It's some work, but here's why you do it--because you need a water soluble fake mortar that your prop person is going to spray the bricks off between shows; and you need a little 'heft' to the brick so it looks real, but not so much that you are hurt if the brick wall falls.

Water soluble and environmentally friendly fake mortar should be possible to make from corn meal dyed grey with food color. If the corn meal doesn't stick well enough, add a bit of egg.

So in between shows the bricks are brought outside and sprayed off with a hose. The bricks are brought back in and set on a tarp to drip dry for the next show. Its still a bit messy, but at least do-able.

If you don't have to do the entire wall a-vista, you might have premade sections screwed together, and then just place a brick or two as needed.

In any case you will want a stage cloth.

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