IowaFarmBoy
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I am scratchbuilding an HO scale structure with 3 round towers (decorative) and one square one (for the elevator.) Here is a footprint of the structure which I call Towers Furniture. Ignote the clock. I forgot to erase it. 
I made a sub-roof and flashing plan in CorelDRAW X5 and printed it. I cut one section out of the 9-sided parts and glued them into octagons. The strange shapr is the roof for the square tower. All of the parallel lines are for shingle spacing.
I used cardstock to make the sub-roof and normal printer paper for the shingles and flashing. Here is the sheet I printed out for the shingles. I used a woodgrain bitmap tiled into the full page and added guidelines to align a ruler so that I could slit each shingle strip and then move the ruler to the appropriate line and use an Xacto knife to cut the strip of shingles off the sheet. I slit the shingles on the convenient grain lines which gives me random widths when the strip is applied to the roof.This is a close-up of the sheet that I am cutting the shingle strips from. The stainless steel ruler is upside down so when my arthritic fingers miss with the knife I am not scratching the ruler face.
Here is my setup for construction.
Here is a close-up of 2 of the roofs that are ready for weathering and mounting on the towers. I applied the shingle strips and flashing with white glue. I printed everything on an inkjet printer so the last thing before weathering is a coat of Krylon Clear Flat as a sealer to prevent the ink from running. Dullcoat would work but the Krylon is a cost effective solution. I am pretty happy with the results of the results of this project. Model Railroading Is Fun!
I made a sub-roof and flashing plan in CorelDRAW X5 and printed it. I cut one section out of the 9-sided parts and glued them into octagons. The strange shapr is the roof for the square tower. All of the parallel lines are for shingle spacing.
I used cardstock to make the sub-roof and normal printer paper for the shingles and flashing. Here is the sheet I printed out for the shingles. I used a woodgrain bitmap tiled into the full page and added guidelines to align a ruler so that I could slit each shingle strip and then move the ruler to the appropriate line and use an Xacto knife to cut the strip of shingles off the sheet. I slit the shingles on the convenient grain lines which gives me random widths when the strip is applied to the roof.This is a close-up of the sheet that I am cutting the shingle strips from. The stainless steel ruler is upside down so when my arthritic fingers miss with the knife I am not scratching the ruler face.
Here is my setup for construction.
Here is a close-up of 2 of the roofs that are ready for weathering and mounting on the towers. I applied the shingle strips and flashing with white glue. I printed everything on an inkjet printer so the last thing before weathering is a coat of Krylon Clear Flat as a sealer to prevent the ink from running. Dullcoat would work but the Krylon is a cost effective solution. I am pretty happy with the results of the results of this project. Model Railroading Is Fun!
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