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Brick Work

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Making brickwork from foam core board. I worked on a couple of different sized bricks and painted with a few different products For these 'experiments' I just used some scrap foam board that was 5 mm thick, but 3 mm or 10 mm would work fine. The first size bricks were 2cm by 1cm. I marked off the size wanted with a pencil Then used a ball needle to mark out the lines. Try not to press to hard as the paper is a little fragile but it's not the end of the world if you do go through as you can get around these things. For the larger brick I went with 3cm by 1 1/2cm Now the colours...... I first started with nail varnish and found this worked well While trying to keep it neat I'm just not a neat person I did find that while the varnish was went you could use the ball tool to re make the lines Two coats give a better look but I would guess this would depend on the nail varnish used Once the varnish was completely d