Hilltown Entrepreneurs, Build Challenge 2016

[jimmillho]

Jeff,

That is quite a roofing job.  I does look good though.

Jim

[Powersteamguy1790]

Jeff:  The roof is looking great.

Stay cool and run steam......

[Zephyrus52246]

Thanks, Jim and Bob.  Almost there...

[Zephyrus52246]

Done!  Next up is to cover the peaks, add any bits needed, fix the one piece I'm not happy with and then paint it all to cover all the shiny spots.


Jeff

[S&S RR]

Looking good Jeff.  Great use of a ballast bag.

[MAP]

Very nice work on the roof Jeff.  I'd go crazy if I had to do all of that snipping/tweaking!

[Mike Engler]

Great work Dr. Jeff. First, I like the peeling paint effect a lot, and thanks for the tutorial. You can't have enough ways to make your paint peel. 


What is your review of the 969 tape you mentioned? I've been using the 3M 565 forever and always thought it was sticky enough. I did try some carpet tape on something and it turned out to be way to sticky.

[postalkarl]

Hi Jeff:

That roof looks like lots of fun. Looking good so far can't wait to see the finished product.

Karl c

[ACL1504]

Jeff,

Great job on the roof.

Tom

[Zephyrus52246]

Thanks, gentlemen.  I've started weathering the roof.  Pastel chalks, weathering powders, Pan Pastels.  The roof will represent 'old' rust and will be more brown than orange.


Jeff

[Zephyrus52246]

Hello again.  My three week hiatus of dog sitting is over and I'm back at this.  Mike, to answer your question the tape is stickier, but a bit thicker than the other transfer tape.  It isn't perfect as the first picture shows, I had a couple areas lift off.  The other problem is where the metal pieces overlap.  I used superglue on those that lifted.  This stained and lifted the paint off the metal pieces.  I had to go back and overpaint those areas with grey.  The instructions note to weather the panels then add the paper covering to represent metal to the peaks.  That looked weird, so I put on the paper and weathered everything together.  Using the powders and stuff made a few shiny spots appear, then I went back and painted them (third pic).  Then just kept up with the pastels and stuff.  Picture four shows it finished and then I sprayed it with fixative, hoping that it didn't lift it all off.  Even though the Dick Blick fixative is "matte" it's a little shiny.  I placed on the layout area to see how the colors looked, and it's OK. (picture 5)  Next I'll drybrush some light grey over it to see if I like that effect.  One note, it was hard to get the pastels and even the weathering powders to stick to the seam roofing.  I used the "alcohol and pastel" method to apply these, they looked streaky, but after it dried the pastels went on much better. 


Jeff

[Zephyrus52246]

The light grey lightened it up.  Looks OK to me. 


Jeff

[Zephyrus52246]

Next up is a small overhang over the garage door area.  Mine did not quite match the instructions pictures, I think because the main roof isn't quite where it needs to be, though it looks even on both sides to me.  Anyway I had to futz with it to get it to fit.  You're then supposed to use putty on the side to disguise that it's three pieces of cardboard (the edge under the roof extension).  How I would be able to putty, sand and paint this without gumming up something else would be near impossible.  Like the way I got white paint on the green support.     I think it looks OK left alone, especially after I put it on the layout and couldn't really see it.  Next is the rolled roofing on the other side.   

Jeff

[S&S RR]

Jeff


Your build is coming along nicely.  You inspired me to buy one of the kits Bob had left this weekend. I'm in the don't buy another kit unless you know where it's going on the layout mode and I found a spot.  

[Mkrailway]

Jeff, that is a complex buildand ou have done an excellent job.

Marty