Good things come in narrow packages

[Steve]

Wayne, I am glad that I asked for more pics....if I didn't, I would have missed that excellent thread!  I need to "get out" more :oops:  

88...Nice work!   I have used sandpaper for rolled roofing but not painted masking tape. It looks like it works very nicely. Ore Hill station is a keeper!!

I have pretty much committed myself to making the roofing material. One of the options that I had envisioned early on for this build was wood shingles. I love the way they look on both real and modeled buildings. I never thought about making them however. It just seems like a ton of work   ........I would do it though if the final product was worth the effort. With that in mind, I wanted to see what a shake roof would look like on this structure, so I scaled down an appropriate picture, made multiple copies and laid them loosely on the sub-roof of the trestle:

The sub-roof is 1/64" cardboard. I painted both sides of it to minimize warping. In this first pic you can see the edges of the paper roof. Since this is just a test, I didn't worry about hiding the seams between roof sheets:


 



Pretty nice detail in the roof pic I copied:


Well...It looks like a shake roof would look pretty good . Like I said before, I never thought about attempting to make a wooden shingle roof, so I will need to research methods to actually make one. I do know that you can just cut out individual shingles and glue them on one at a time..... ........ouch!  I'll find an easier way .........or I'll do a different roof type!