All of the buildings are built from card and covered in purpose made printed brick papers.

First I sit down in front of my layout and simply roughly sketch out a fee proposal. I think about how it looks and also how it would work in real life, thinking about roads, access and how things would have progressed with time. Then the building are drawn up in AutoCAD and this is where I work out the cardboard layering, sometime I even project the cad drawing into 3d to get a feel of how product will look in the end. Once the design is finalised I print them to pdf this allows me to print them out to make mock- ups (if surrounding scenery causes an issue of space, or it connects two elements). Where necessary any amendments are made and it is reprinted and tried again.

Then the pdf's are loaded into Photoshop and the relevant brick textures are placed over them on there own layer (I have a large library as I used to do 3d modelling, and I have a large collection of boring/strange photos of walls, rust, dirt, concrete etc..). Another layer is placed over for dirt, and one more for mold. By layering the Photoshop image any one element can be changed without affecting the others, and allows many elements to be reused. These are then exported as jpg's and layed out in InDesign along with the original line drawings. Then comes the long prosses of taping down the line drawings on the card and cutting out all of the necessary bits.

For gluing I find the best glue to be uhu as it is quick drying (no one wants to sit there holding bits together for hours while it dries) and it also doesn’t soak through the printed paper, unlike pva which makes the ink run on the printouts.