discussion First new toy

[Gern]

You can scribe just about any sort of foam David. The pizza bases Ron uses are fine for rough stonework, but I'd suggest an extruded foam for brickwork that has to be accurate. Use a sharp knife (and a straight edge if you want nice, regular brickwork; free hand if you want an irregular type of stonework) to cut shallow lines in your foam to create your basic pattern, then run a sharp pencil along your thin knife cuts - this will widen the gap. The deeper you make your knife cuts, the deeper you can push the pencil into the foam and the wider the gap you can make between your stones/bricks.

I gotta tell you though, short of using a grindstone, nothin' takes the edge off a blade quicker than extruded foam! If you do use your knife for this job, I'd recommend replacing the blade before using it on your kits. Oh. And your pencil will need to be sharpened too!

Thinkin' about it, I'm pretty sure I got this from Ron. As far as I know he didn't copyright the idea, so I don't think he's gonna sue for plagiarism - but I'll get him a coffee at Cosford just in case!

 

[Guest]

As far as I know he didn't copyright the idea

OT, I know, but you can’t copyright ideas — copyright applies to (artistic) works that have actually been made. Patents are a similar concept but for ideas

 

[Gern]

OT, I know, but you can’t copyright ideas — copyright applies to (artistic) works that have actually been made. Patents are a similar concept but for ideas :smiling3:

Phew! That's a relief. I had visions of an endless stream of beer tokens headed in Ron's direction. I'll still get him a coffee at Cosford though!