Corrugated Roof Matetrial

You can make your own with a Fiskars Paper crimper and Aluminum Cookie sheets from the 99cent store. 

 

 

Try this seller on e-bay. He is also a forum member.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/35-pie...;hash=item20c3b00c11

 

Steve

try builders-in-scale or valleymodeltrains.com jerrman

Paul,

Evergreen has a large selection of various corrugated materials for roofs.

 

Alan Graziano

Recently did the Coal tipple roof with corrugated metal from Builders-in-square. I used a 6ft scale width (part # 736), each piece is 7 1/2" long, there are (6) pieces in each package.  (3) pieces worked well on the larger roofs and also on the small roof on the conveyor.  Material is also available in radoms, 4', 8', 10', 12' scale width.  Application is with contact cement. Builders-in-square is a part of  CC Crow, both listed in the Scenery Source List above.

Paper n crimper

 

 

 

Dave

Good to see you up early Dave.   You and Frank back at the biking????

Mike. 

Thanks to all for responding.  One of the great things about this forum.  Builders in Scale had just what I needed.  I had forgotten about Evergreen, they had a good corrugated roof also.

 

Paul Edgar

You can also make your own corrugated sheets out of heavy-duty aluminum foil by rubbing it over some kind of a corrugated pattern (I use the roof from one of the many Lionel accessories with corrugated roofs). A tutorial on this procedure can be found here:

 

How Furnace Hill Coal Co. was Built, added 08/13/02

I am now using a Fiskers Crimper and aluminum salvaged from pop cans, holds the crimp better than paper.

I picked up several packs from Get Real Productions out of Virginia several years back at the Indy. O Scale Meet.   It came 40 sheets to a pack, in 4' x 8' scale aluminum sheets, and in 2' x 8' if I correctly recall.    I think they are still in business.   However I don't know about a website.

And just bought a 12 pack of sprite for wife too. THANKS!

How about those hot cup wrapper you get at wawa or seven eleven. They are what I used. They are free. The inside is just like a corragated roof. Just paint over the outsides.

Hey T-Mack That's a great looking barn. Is that for o scale?? Any chance of putting the plans on line?? Or email them to me. Thanks Ed Powers. Email in profile. I am looking to do a rural scene on my layout.

Here is a link to a brief tutorial on using the Fiskars tool to make roofing. (Also a link to a free loafing shed plan/template available in O scale)

 

http://www.scalemodelplans.com...ls/metal_siding.html

 

Dave, did you use the Fiskar crimper, or do you have something else?

 

Thanks,

Dan

Ed,

 

You asked that about the time the weather in California gets real good and my son's baseball starts, so sorry for the long delay.

The barn was made from foam core and coffee stir sticks , I am just getting back to the layout now that it is that season for me, so I will dig around and see if I can find the template I used.  That was a Diorama, my daughter and I did for her school project, gave me a good excuse to buy an o gauge corn field.

I cut out a front sheet to match the template in Foam Core, then glued coffee stir sticks on for the trim and the raised slats.  Built the doors out of coffee stir sticks,  crimped the roof with my fiskars paper crimper and painted it.

 

-Ted

Here is another project I did with the Fiskars crimper.  This is Plan 1921- Greencourt Alberta garage.  I've also discovered another interesting tool while hanging out in the Paper Craft section of the Craft store.  I'll post an example later.

TC

www.ScaleModelPlans.com

 

What I use is a paper crimper and aluminum from aluminum cooking containers.

 

 

 

The softer aluminum from the cooking containers is cut into strips with a paper trimmer, flattened with a long glass bottle for olive oil, then run through the paper crimper. Crimping has to be done carefully to stay in a straight line.

 

Andrew

I was thinking of oven trays.  I'm not sure if that's what they are called, but they fit under the lower element of an oven and are fairly large and flat.  One tray would probably do an entire building.

Your project looks great, by the way.

 

TC

www.ScaleModelPlans.com