Cheap materials thread, post your finds and ideas!

[MasonJar]

80 cable idt (hard drive)cables- the grey ones make great corregated iron shed/roof/fences (they arent wavey - rather fig 8 patterns) but still look great as corregated iron-esp when the ends arent visible

Do you have a picture of a finished example?

The roof of this coal shed was made by pressing heavy tinfoil between two lengths of scsi drive cable to "corrugate" it.

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I Dullcoted it, then used dollar store paints (see first post ) to weather it. It is Nscale, so the corrugations are a bit oversized, but it does avoid the problem of seeing the ends of the cable. You may also be able to avoid this by cutting the edge back at a sharp angle.

Andrew