HO Scale Rusticated Brick House

Rusticated concrete block is concrete block with a decorative outside face cast to resemble rough or worked stone. This style of block appeared in the late 19th century and was used for homes, utility buildings, and commercial buildings. This model is inspired by a home on Sherwood Road in Mount Hope, West Virginia. Wander the street on Google Maps Street View and you'll find it!

Parts are separated for easy painting or for printing in different colours. The roof is intended to be finished with your favorite roof texture, such as printed paper shingles.

How to determine which walls to use

Which walls you use depends on whether or not you can get the crawlspace vents to print.

vent_frame.stl can be hard to print. Try printing vent_frame.stl first to see if you can make it work.

Print the vent frame at 0.1mm layers with a 0.2mm extruder on a 3-layer raft; the raft material will become the vent mesh in the finished part. After printing, trim away excess raft material from the frame, leaving the fine mesh inside the frame. This trick works very well for for me using PrusaSlicer 2.8.1 and an Ender 3 Pro; I am curious to know if it works with different slicers and printers.

If these work for you, use walls.stl for your model. If the vents don't work for you, use walls_no_vents.stl.

Parts needing supports

• walls.stl, or walls_no_vents.stl, with manually-applied supports on the underside of the door, window, and vent openings only.
• roof.stl will print without supports (the one shown in my sample printed without supports), but you might get a smoother exterior finish with default support settings.

Print at 0.1mm layers with 0.2mm extruder

Print 1 of each unless otherwise noted:

• chimney.stl
• chimney_flashing.stl
• door_sill.stl - print 2
• front_porch_beam.stl
• front_porch_sill_left.stl
• front_porch_sill_right.stl
• front_porch_post.stl - print 6
• front_porch_post_cap.stl - print 6
• porch_post_jig.stl
• vent_frame.stl - print 6, see notes above for info on using the raft as the vent mesh
• window_double_short.stl
• window_double_sill.stl - print 3
• window_double_tall.stl - print 2
• window_single_short.stl
• window_single_sill.stl - print 6
• window_single_tall.stl - print 5

Print these parts if you want the doors and door frames as one part:

• door_back_single_part.stl
• door_front_single_part.stl

Print these parts if you want the doors and door frames as two parts for painting or to print in separate colours:

• door_frame.stl - print 2
• door_back_door.stl
• door_front_door.stl

Print at 0.1mm layers with 0.4mm extruder

Print 1 of each:

• fascia.stl
• front_porch.stl
• roof_locator.stl
• soffit.stl

Print at 0.2mm layers with 0.4mm extruder

Print 1 of each:

• walls.stl or walls_no_vents.stl, depending on whether or not you want to include the crawlspace vents
• roof.stl

Assembly

1. Print the parts and remove the support material from the window, door, and vent openings.
2. Fit the door and window sills into the door and window openings, with the ridges on the sills facing down.
3. Glaze the windows with your preferred glazing material. If you want to add interior details, print a second set of windows and sandwich the glazing material between the window parts. Fit the windows in the openings. I found that the openings require very little sanding to fit the parts.
4. If you printed the door and door frames as two parts, fit the doors into the frames, with the backs of the parts flush.
5. Glaze the doors with your preferred glazing material. If you want to add interior details, print a second set of doors and sandwich the glazing material between the door parts. Fit the doors in the openings. I found that the openings require very little sanding to fit the parts.
6. Fit the crawlspace vents into the openings.  I found that the openings require very little sanding to fit the parts.
7. Fit the porch sills to the porch walls, with the ridges on the sills facing down.
8. Fit a porch cap to one end of each porch post.
9. Holding the porch post locating jig with its locating lip facing up, insert porch posts into the jig. Apply a spot of glue to the bottom of each post cap. Position the jig on the corner of the porch sill, using the locating lip to align with the sill. Press the posts into place and then slide the jig off the posts. Repeat this for the other side of the porch.
   
   
    
10. Position the porch beam onto the porch posts. Fit the posts into the caps printed on the beam, and fit the beam into the recesses in the wall.
11. Fit the soffit into the recess in the fascia.
12. Place the assembled soffit and fascia on a flat surface with the flat side facing up. Fit the roof locator into the assembly, pressing it down to the flat surface.
13. Fit the roof to the soffit and fascia assembly.
14. Finish the roof with your favorite roof material, such a paper shingles.
15. Fit the chimney into the chimney flashing.
16. Glue the chimney to the roof.