SW Blue Sky Company Warehouse

[Jerry]

Curt everything is looking great.  Nice coloring on the walls and windows.
Signs look nice to.

Jerry

[GPdemayo]

Just got caught up on this build Curt, great progress, I'll be looking in.....

[PRR Modeler]

Afternoon All,

Thank you Rick, Philip, Larry, Yannis, Mike, Vagel, Tom, Jerry and Greg for following along and your kind comments.

Since the last update I placed a board by board roof sub floor on the barn and attached the store to the office. Next up is the office and store roofs (have to wait on barn roof materials). Instructions say to tar paper both, but I will do something else. The water tank is not attached (just showing placement).

[Larry C]

Curt that is coming along very nicely!! Nice work.

[Rick]

Curt, you're showing great work here.

[elwoodblues]

I really need to check in more often.

Your making great progress but more importantly, that is great modeling there.

[VagelK]

Wow!  Just, Wow!

[Jerry]

Wonderful work Curt.

Jerry

[friscomike]

Howdy Curt, the subroof looks terrific.  Persist and have fun!  ~mike

[Philip]

  Likey!

[Yannis]

Pieces of work like this, make me sometimes wanting to revisit my On30 endeavors and 19th century era. Thanks for sharing!

Yannis

[Michael Hohn]

Looks real, Curt.

[PRR Modeler]

Afternoon All,

Thanks for following along Larry, Rick, Ron, Vagel, Jerry, Mike, Philip, Yannis, and Michael for your very kind comments.

The instructions called for random boards on the barn and tar paper on the office and store. I used shake shingles from Wild West models for the barn and 3 tab asphalt shingles that I already had from previous projects on the office and store.

After applying the shingles and rafter tails I felt the provided roof cards weren't long enough requiring a redo for both.

[Larry C]

Curt good roofing job.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Good progress, Curt, and interesting roofing materials.

Do bare in mind that the lower the pitch of the roof the less the types of roofing that can be used.  Wind blowing against the pitch can blow water up under the course above and into the building.  Tiles are generally not used on pitches lower than 15 degrees and corrugated iron on pitches less than 5 degrees.

To save on timber and time when scratchbuilding I cut small sections out of my black roof card and replace by gluing in weathered 6x1 stripwood.  I then create holes in the roofing above to expose the sarking underneath.

Cheers, Mark.