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#1 Sam Morgan

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Posted 16 January 2019 - 02:42 PM

Anyone have a good suggestion for a soldier course paint or even a custom one you'd share?  I usually use the "used brick" paint in the manufactures, boral cultured stone library for my brick texture.  I've got a soldier course around the base of the house as well as for gable trim and would like a little nicer look to it....I usually just use an 8" vertical siding for a soldier but it looks pretty plain.....

 

 

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#2 Kevin Rabenaldt

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Posted 16 January 2019 - 02:56 PM

Sam, if you are talking about line elevations, what I do is define a freeze board the height you want.  Then on the output elevation I paint a pattern in this freeze board area I created.  The paint pattern consists of vertical lines; brick width & mortar width.



#3 Sam Morgan

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Posted 16 January 2019 - 06:31 PM

Kevin...that's exactly how I did it.  Just didn't have a paint to put in the freeze that I liked.  I was having a brain fart...finally just exploded the brick texture and created my own.....DUH



#4 Todd Williard

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Posted 17 January 2019 - 11:13 AM

You could also just simply rotate your brick paint to 90 degrees.


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#5 Steve Haarmann

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Posted 17 January 2019 - 01:58 PM

Here is a brick soldier course pain that I created for the used brick paint.

 

I guess you can't attach a .spy file.

If anyone wants this let me know.

 

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#6 Sam Morgan

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Posted 17 January 2019 - 10:35 PM

You could also just simply rotate your brick paint to 90 degrees.

That doesn't work because its a running bond...looks pretty bad.  I tried that before creating my own paint for the soldier



#7 Dennis Hilborn

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Posted 18 January 2019 - 06:41 AM

That doesn't work because its a running bond...looks pretty bad.  I tried that before creating my own paint for the soldier

 

I think Todd was speaking of the 3" horizontal brick paint.  I don't usually use the running bond paint because it looks too busy to me so I use the 3" horizontal lines.



#8 Keith Almond

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Posted 18 January 2019 - 08:31 PM

Creating ANY paint is VERY simple.

 

I find the easiest way is to draw exactly what you want, and then draw a paint template box round the repeating area, rather that create a paint template box and try to draw the paint inside it.

 

If you need a bounding box to get the size correct draw extra long horizontal and vertical lines that won't be "in" the selection box when you draw the paint template, and snap to the intersections.


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