Getting closer to having a brick pier.....

I had some great tips from several people on several Yahoo Groups on how to do the photo wrap. 

Here's a photo of the real pier. 

I was able to take the above photo and do some serious editing with Photoshop and come up with this photo to wrap.

 

Anyway, I feel much better now knowing that I'm close to having my Brick pier. 

Going back an editing this page, I realized I never posted a pic of the wrapped bridge pier. Here's just the pier finished.

 

Wrapping it up

I'm working on the Tibbee Bridge trying to get that wrapped up, literally. Thanks to Keith at "Scale Segmental Bridge Co." I now have the perfect pier for the South end of Tibbee bridge almost..... 

The prototype is built out of brick. So, I have to figure out how to give this pier the look of brick. I feel that I have two choices. First, I could scribe mortar lines and paint the pier. This I feel is my last option because my skill levels aren't that good. I'd hate to mess up a nice casting as Keith has made. So, I figured I'd try option 2 which is to do a photo wrap. 

As you can see from the photo, the pier is slightly tapered and rounded on each end. It will be viewed from one rounded end so I want to wrap the photo so that there is only one seam and it's on the back side of the model on the other rounded end. I want to wrap this photo around the pier....  To do so and have the brick and mortar remain level and parallel,