Lesson learned here; be sure there is enough support and if in doubt make a copy of the support pieces before you glue things together. Right now I'm going to have to figure out how to make two copies of the supports with everything already glued in place. I'll deal with this when I have more time.
In the meantime I dry fit everything again. The roofs fall into position as expected. I then taped the bottom portion of the bell tower together to see how it fit and then traced the outline of the short roofs and the bell tower on to the long roof to see where the shingling would need to stop. All of the roof sections will be glued together, at some point in this process, to create one large roof and to avoid the bell tower from sliding off during a game. Shingling the whole long roof will just make that difficult so there will be two sections, one on either side, that won't get any shingles.
A few pictures:
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| Note that on the long roof there are only two supports and those are just about as far apart as you can get. The weight is going to fall roughly to the left of center (based on the door being on the right end here) which is where I think more support will be needed to avoid sagging from miniatures being placed in the bell tower. |
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| Dry fitting the roof pieces. |
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| Adding the bell tower. I think things are looking pretty good. |
To get a template for the roof supports, I'd try making a rubbing of one of the existing supports. That should give you a very close paper template that you could then cut out and fit, then modify as needed.
ReplyDeleteGood idea. I'll give that a try when I get back to it.
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