tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6445525077694788224.post4189695883465673528..comments2024-02-28T00:52:05.659-08:00Comments on Karin Corbin Miniatures: Brickology Part 4Karin Corbinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14558132883050492387noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6445525077694788224.post-12763780189732237892016-01-20T12:14:40.473-08:002016-01-20T12:14:40.473-08:00tumbling would not work to age the bricks. This ty...tumbling would not work to age the bricks. This type of clay is primarily made of paper. There would not be enough abrasive action. The second reason it would not work is the material is very light in weight so there would be no grinding action, they would just bounce off. The third reason is they are too fragile to take the many hours of tumbling that RL cement stones go through.<br /><br />Rounding over of edges is only one aspect of what happens to bricks as they age. However having the edges uniformly rounded over is not what RL aging of bricks actually looks like. Without having some areas of crisp sharp edges they would not look real. One of the major flaws people who artificially age objects make is thinking that every edge gets rounded under all circumstances. When in actuality aging is an ongoing process and in a material such as brick and stone there is also flaking and spalling going on from issues such as freeze and thaw cycles in addition to rain, wind or people walking on surfaces which leads to the rounding of the edges.<br /><br />Aging is a subject which takes some in depth investigation into the physics of the RL processes nature and mankind puts materials through.Karin Corbinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14558132883050492387noreply@blogger.com