This is SUPER helpful. Thank you for publishing this! The only thing I am missing now is how to turn that flat wall into a cylinder, and I am sure a little more digging will unearth that knowledge. Beautiful miniatures! Happy printing!
You could do a circle array of the 'stamps' and then subtract them from the cylinder. Then align another cylinder in the center of the first with a slightly smaller diameter to create even depth mortar lines.
this was so helpful to make models that dont look like lego! i have spent the day trying out textures using this software with excellent results many thanks
Great video. I'm just starting out using TinkerCad and this is something that I need to do on my project that I'm working on. I'd be interested to know how you then apply that to specific shapes. Eg a Gable end wall on a building. (Also I love the background music... we have the same taste!! haha.) Craig.
Tinkercad is largely subtractive. To make a gable end, you have to create a rectangle, apply the texture and then subtractt two triangles from the rectangle. Glad you enjoyed the video. Be sure to check out my other model railroad videos!
Great Video, I have made bricks in Tinkercad but it is very tedious. this method is very fast, and I think I can make many different brick patterns for my H.O. model railroad buildings. One thing I would like to know is how do you make the curved arches?
Great video, but how did you get your brick to 3"? I imported the brick pattern then scaled the brick to .48mm (3" in N-scale). I also locked the scale when saving for re-use. Sound correct?
Joseph - I added notes on scaling in the description. I don't scale the models in Tinkercad but in the slicer when I import the .stl file. I do not lock my custom creations because in the past I have found it advantageous to be able to scale them. For example, I might want to use this brick pattern as stone on another project, and with the scale locked I cannot stretch it. It will always come into your model at the original scale, so you have to intentionally modify it to change the scale.
I'm not really in the printer recommending business. If you're doing details, I'd definitely go resin. I'm using an early gen Elegoo mars. I stink at printing, though, so don't have much to offer in the way of advice.
Not in Tinkercad. The only way I could think to do it would be to make copies of the mortar "stamp" and rotate them around the cylinder, then subtract them from the cylinder. A second cylinder with a slightly smaller diameter could be center aligned within the first to give the mortar lines even depth.
@@pacificcoastmodelworks1928 Thanks for the swift reply. Yep, thats pretty much what I did with individual bricks (similar to this tower process: ruclips.net/video/-G7nOhwZ-r8/видео.html I am looking at using Blender which seems to have move capabilities in that respect, although I do like the simplicity of Tinkercad.
@@pacificcoastmodelworks1928 Indeed. Fortunately I have a young son who has mastered it and has done a great job of using some of its tools to create just what I needed. Now playing with multi colouring in print form :-) So much fun, I can see myself spending more time with my printer than my Scalextric :-)
Hiya Scott, just found and tried your tutorial.. I’ve clearly done something wrong and hoping you can help.. as far as I can see everything is correct but when I try putting the brick pattern into my slicer it tells me it can’t open it as it’s corrupt or I don’t have access to it? I’ve created other stl files from scratch in tinker cad no issues any help would be appreciated thanks Keith
Standard bricks are 2.25" high by 7-5/8" long. Scales to 0.046875" x 0.1598958333" in O scale. Depends on the size of the bricks in the graphic you used.
This is SUPER helpful. Thank you for publishing this! The only thing I am missing now is how to turn that flat wall into a cylinder, and I am sure a little more digging will unearth that knowledge. Beautiful miniatures! Happy printing!
You could do a circle array of the 'stamps' and then subtract them from the cylinder. Then align another cylinder in the center of the first with a slightly smaller diameter to create even depth mortar lines.
Very useful! Thank you.
this was so helpful to make models that dont look like lego! i have spent the day trying out textures using this software with excellent results many thanks
Brilliant!
Hi Scott!! Your first video is a definite success! Thanks for taking the time to create this and sharing your knowledge!
Appreciate the support, Stefan.
Great video, thanks for the technique
Any time!
Lots of good Tinkercad advice.
That is great, thank you!
@@moghobbystuff glad you enjoyed it!
Great video. I'm just starting out using TinkerCad and this is something that I need to do on my project that I'm working on. I'd be interested to know how you then apply that to specific shapes. Eg a Gable end wall on a building. (Also I love the background music... we have the same taste!! haha.) Craig.
Tinkercad is largely subtractive. To make a gable end, you have to create a rectangle, apply the texture and then subtractt two triangles from the rectangle. Glad you enjoyed the video. Be sure to check out my other model railroad videos!
@@pacificcoastmodelworks1928 Thanks for the pointer. :)
Great just what i was looking for :)
Thank you!
My pleasure.
Great Video, I have made bricks in Tinkercad but it is very tedious. this method is very fast, and I think I can make many different brick patterns for my H.O. model railroad buildings. One thing I would like to know is how do you make the curved arches?
It's been a while and i don't remember. I may have drawn them up in Inkscape and exported to SVG. I know I did that on another project.
Great video, but how did you get your brick to 3"? I imported the brick pattern then scaled the brick to .48mm (3" in N-scale). I also locked the scale when saving for re-use. Sound correct?
Joseph - I added notes on scaling in the description. I don't scale the models in Tinkercad but in the slicer when I import the .stl file. I do not lock my custom creations because in the past I have found it advantageous to be able to scale them. For example, I might want to use this brick pattern as stone on another project, and with the scale locked I cannot stretch it. It will always come into your model at the original scale, so you have to intentionally modify it to change the scale.
Wow, that was a great tutorial. What printer do you recommend?
I'm not really in the printer recommending business. If you're doing details, I'd definitely go resin. I'm using an early gen Elegoo mars. I stink at printing, though, so don't have much to offer in the way of advice.
Thanks!!!
You bet!
nice - thanks
Thank you too!
Great work Scott. Newbie here to 3d printing and wondered if this shape can be curved to create a curved wall?
Not in Tinkercad. The only way I could think to do it would be to make copies of the mortar "stamp" and rotate them around the cylinder, then subtract them from the cylinder. A second cylinder with a slightly smaller diameter could be center aligned within the first to give the mortar lines even depth.
@@pacificcoastmodelworks1928 Thanks for the swift reply. Yep, thats pretty much what I did with individual bricks (similar to this tower process: ruclips.net/video/-G7nOhwZ-r8/видео.html I am looking at using Blender which seems to have move capabilities in that respect, although I do like the simplicity of Tinkercad.
@@paulwooding8382 Blender is a very steep hill to climb. Nothing intuitive about it.
@@pacificcoastmodelworks1928 Indeed. Fortunately I have a young son who has mastered it and has done a great job of using some of its tools to create just what I needed. Now playing with multi colouring in print form :-) So much fun, I can see myself spending more time with my printer than my Scalextric :-)
Hiya Scott, just found and tried your tutorial.. I’ve clearly done something wrong and hoping you can help.. as far as I can see everything is correct but when I try putting the brick pattern into my slicer it tells me it can’t open it as it’s corrupt or I don’t have access to it? I’ve created other stl files from scratch in tinker cad no issues any help would be appreciated thanks Keith
I've printed lots of stuff using this technique. I assume you exported the result to stl to import into the slicer? Beyond that I would have no idea.
@@pacificcoastmodelworks1928 yes mate i suspect I’ve missed a step or some thing wrong I’ll keep trying lol
What scaling do you recommend for O gauge
Standard bricks are 2.25" high by 7-5/8" long. Scales to 0.046875" x 0.1598958333" in O scale. Depends on the size of the bricks in the graphic you used.