12-05-2010, 04:07 PM
faraway Wrote:The building with the rounded gray roof looks interesting. How did you do the roof?
Hello Reinhard,
That is the Zero Corp. building. The front and side walls are styrene; the floor, back wall, and roof are made from foam core. The roof I modeled is called a bow truss roof. For the roof I cut 2 arches from 3/16 foam core then glued them on edge to a flat piece of foam core. I then covered the arch with thin balsa wood and worked it into the flat part of the roof. The assembly was covered with material used to cover model airplanes. It was applied over a thick coat of gray paint so the paint would glue it to the roof. I used a fine Sharpie marker to draw in the tar lines of the roof. I still have to weather the building and that will tone down the contrast between the tar lines and the gray roof.
John