Tin Roofs

I'd like to add "tin roofing" to a farmhouse I'm building instead of the include shingles. Would anyone have suggestions how do do this?

Thanks,
Ben

HI
I found some Evergreens styrene , number 4525..it might be3 too thick for everyone its 1.mm thick and spacing is .75 mm. Only reason I got it was it was in bargain bin at local hobby shop and even then it was almost 9 euros! Ive heard of people taking something like this and rubbing foil on it until it gets the shape. Ive never had much luck with that. I don't know how photo etched stuff looks like, maybe somebody can help there.

Ben, Well I don't know where some these modelers get metal tin roofs. Wish I did! I have had good luck with Paper Creek products. Check them out on the internet. Cheers, Jim CCRR

Ben: Like Jim, i use the Paper Creek stuff as well. It works well and is paper thin so your roof does not look bulky. Paper Creek offers several types of roofing as does RS Laser. Both companies products can be found at Z Scale Monster.

Tony B...
Wasatch Z Club

Thanks all,
I've checked zscalemoster, but what I see is corrugated metal and not tin roofing. I may have to look into the tinfoil idea...if I can find a good "mold."

If you are intent on using foil a reasonably sized "mold" would be that of a very fine ridged medicine bottle cap, or any jar lid where the ridges are very close together yet not too deep. Just roll a foil strip along the side. I've done this with fairly good results but never actually used it on a structure. With "Rust-All" it just might turn out nicely. The trick would be in laying the foil without flattening it. Perhaps hot wax poured on the backside would solidify its shape.

FWIW,
Karin

I just tried that but I used 2 of the same kind of bottle lids, pressing them against one another with the foil in the middle and rolling then. This way the teeth of one lid go into the gaps of the other lid. I remember years ago people making some kind of roller thing thing in other scales. that worked kind of the same way, to make corrugated metal. They havead something like this to make decorative corrugated paper, that would be good for G scale. Maybe somebody with a CNC machine or lathe could make something like this to make corrugated tin for z scale?
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Never thought of using two lids for the job Kelley. Good idea. I think I'm going to try this both ways this week, put it on a building, weather it and see if it gets a pass by being blended into the whole package. Maybe by not making the grooves too deep and if they are fine enough it just might look cool. We have to re-invent manufacturing in Z just because the model railroad manufacturers just can't think tiny enough!

But its fun...
Karin