Still stalling on doing the shingles so I worked on the extra supports for the long roof. I discovered that there was plenty of material left to work with on the MDF sprues (good thing I never throw anything away). And following a suggestion in the comments I traced out the supports from the gable ends and made a couple of templates. It was easier than I thought it would be. The roof sections meet at a 90 degree angle so I just laid a piece of paper in there to match the angle and traced the bottom edge, complete with the notches. A little work with a knife and a file and I was probably done in 15 minutes or so. I glued those into place, double checked and adjusted the fit a bit and I was done. Now I really need to do the shingles.
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| Paper Templates |
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| Glued to the remains of an MDF sprue |
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| Initial cut. Notches have not been cut yet. |
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| Added some straight lines to give me a guide. |
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| Three of my 1-2-3 blocks to hold everything in place while the glue sets. Of course the piece slipped a bit without me know it. |
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| This time I used all four of my blocks, the fourth is used to make sure the piece stays vertical. It still slipped a bit |
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| And what it looks like in the end. Basically I added the supports on either side of the intersection of the walls in the center. |
I just subscribed (can't believe I didn't sooner); I look forward to following this project. John Boadle on his Hand-Built History blog says it is worthwhile taking extra time on rooves since when we are playing a wargame that is what we look at the the most.
ReplyDeleteTotally agree with that. I think I picked it up from my model railroads, you mostly see the roof, make it interesting!
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