with the advent of companies like evergreen and their molded styrene some roofs are a piece of cake, cut and glue, then weather
HOWEVER
traditional roofing is quite different.
shingles, either cedar or asphalt type How do you do it. I have carved them into balsa but never really liked the outcome
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Builders-in-Scale have an interesting selection of roofing products
Builders-in-Scale corrugated metal roofing.
BTS also has press and stick shingle sheets. Shingle choices.
Clever Models has some roofing options. Their 'Creeky' laser cut shingles are nice. Ozark Models has a nice vac formed sheet that once painted look great. I've also seen folks modify doll house cedar shingles for O scale. Make your own from super thin wood veneer.....or even colored card stock....lots of options.....
This farmnhouse existed in Robeson County NC near Fairmont. It was my wifes Grandfathers 2nd farmhouse, it was built in 1890 and torn down 2009, The original farmhouse (no pictures to be found yet) was destroyed around the time of WWI when her Grandfather enlisted in the Army to fight the Germans. Almost all the Indian boys at that time enlisted. This photo taken during the demolition , the barn and chicken coop and smokehouse long gone, but have some pictures of those. My wife is secretly hoping i can build a copy of the farmhouse. got the windows, the doors, got the siding from evergreen, still looking for shingles. i think i got the skill, think anyway
but the shingles offered so far are split wooden types, my wife just does not remember but they look like plain old shingles to me. that is tobacco growing in the back, and yeah i got tobacco plants, they are HO scale but if i double up and not put the flower on them they just look like normal tobacco plants but young and i already got the tobacco barn
need the right kind of shingles
These look like standard 3 tab shingles. Difficult to tell from the picture.
You could also use a tar paper roof which was common.
i asked my wife if she could remember, been quite a while, she remembers a lot, picking tobacco, slaughtering many many pigs in the fall, (very large family event, like to find a scale scalding pot), tormenting the bull. she remembers the barn, smokehouse, chicken coop, tobacco barns. but when quizzed about roof she just said 'roof' but I believe you are correct 3 tab shingles
In your photo they appear to be wooden shake shingles.The roof of the two story 1890s farmhouse where I was born[1932] still had many times repaired/replaced wooden shakes when it burned in March 1951, started from a chimney fire[no flue liners].
Moss growing on the porch roof pictured is a solid clue indicating wooden shingles.
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