Hank's Machine Shop

[PRR Modeler]

Larry I love the board on board roof.

[Jerry]

Larry great job and nice coloring!!

Jerry

[Larry C]

Kyle thank you so much for the nice compliments. Merry Christmas to you as well.

Curt thank you. With the size of the roof it was easier to do that type of roof rather than  wood shingles.

Jerry thank you, much appreciated. I wanted the roof to be a contrasting color to the other wood in the build; I'm not a fan of matchy-matchy.

[friscomike]

Howdy Larry,

What a great way to end workbench activities until after Christmas.  I love the board-on-board roofing! It looks realistic and certainly adds a lot of character to the shop.

Have fun,
mike

[Rick]

Larry, the board on board roof looks very good.
It should keep everyone and everything inside nice and dry.

[Larry C]

Mike and Rick thank you both so much and for your support.

[Pennman]

The roof looks great Larry. My biggest compliment would to be for what color to choose for the roof coloring.
It stumps me in my own modeling what to choose for that. I'm sure you will figure it out. Everything
looks great.

Rich

[Philip]

Boarding up for Christmas are we? 

Typical contractor   Great work!

[Larry C]

Rich and Philip thank you for your comments and for following along.

[Larry C]

Lights, camera, action:



Looking through the lights I had on hand, this seemed to be the best solution. Had a short length of "wire lights", at least that's what I call them, that I was able to weave through the rafters to hide them from view which runs on 2-1.5 volt AA batteries with an on & off switch.These are available through Amazon for cheap.



After temporarily blocking the back side of the roof, keeping all the light inside the Shop, this is what the interior looks like. I'm rather pleased with the way the lighting turned out plus you can now see all the details.

Now it's on to finishing the backside of the roof and I have come up with a way to make the backside removable in case the light wire ever needs to be changed. Thanks for stopping by leaving all your great comments and/or suggestions; they are appreciated.

[PRR Modeler]

It looks awesome Larry. Maybe a couple of small spots of white glue would work.

[deemery]

A removable roof without purlins running across the boards would be tough!  One possibility would be to cut and glue the board-by-board to paper, and add something running from rafter-to-rafter at the base to keep the roof from sliding off.

dave

[Larry C]

Curt and Dave thank you both for your comments and for your roof suggestions; they're appreciated.

[Rick]

Larry, great job on adding the lights.
The lit interior looks very good.

[Larry C]

Thanks Rick; I wanted the details to be visible ti the viewer.