If there is one thing this project has taught me it's that I have no desire to become a 15 mm roofer. On a 28 mm building cutting the shingles is tedious but putting them on is actually kinda relaxing and fun. Not so at this scale. Each shingle is too small and fiddly for my sausage fingers to easily manipulate. I'm reduced to pushing them around with a sculpting tool and disliking every moment. I would cut them as strips but again they're so small that cutting them like that is going to be pretty horrible.
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| My basic technique is to scribe some guidelines on the roof and then glue the shingles on in courses. |
I think the next thing architectural detail I'm going to do is make up some shingling strips and cast them in resin. Then I can use those to roof any future buildings. A little more work on the front end should save me a lot of work on the back end.
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| Finally, all done. The chimney was sculpted over foamcore base to look like field stone. |
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| The back side of the house. |
I'm hoping to get the house painted this week and some finished pics up then.
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