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Today I worked on painting some of the fascia boards and got back to building the station. I've been installing roof edge trim and just about have that finished. I had one area where the shingles missed the roof edge. I was going to leave it that way, but my perfectionist side kicked in and I decided to fix it. First I trimmed the edge to make sure it was nice and straight. When I first started fitting pieces to it, it wasn't.
Next I had to find a piece of extra roofing from which I could make this tiny piece. Lesson time: After finishing the roof I threw out all the scrap pieces since there weren't any pieces big enough to do a project. Big mistake! Luckily, that trash bag hadn't been tossed yet and I was able to dig down to the bottom and find a 2 X 2" piece big enough to make this little fix.
I matched the shingle width and made a straight cut. Then I measured the top angle and cut it. Next came the total length, and finally I marked the roof overhang and cut it to width.
The result was CA'd to the roof.
I'm going to airbrush the entire roof with slate gray and then pick out random shingles to add shades of purple, green and yellow tinted gray to make it look like a real slate roof. I'm also going to add gutters and down spouts after the trim is painted.
This in-progress pic of Steam Era Structures Tudlow's Confectionary shows how I did that roof painting.
