O'Neils Mercantile & Repair

[Larry C]

Tom thank you for the nice compliments.

[Larry C]

A bit of an update:



Decided to go with a metal roof on the Mercantile. The material was cut into 2 foot wide strips then lapped three inches.The sub-roof was constructed using 110# paper (thin card).



The metal roof was weathered using a combination of brown chalk dry brushed followed by a very small amount of rust colored chalk. Everything was blended with a round brush. My goal was to have a well used weathered roof with just a hint of rust that would still hold up for years to come.

Next I'll be drawing up the Repair building and get that going while I wait for the stair stringers to arrive for the Mercantile. Thanks for stopping by and for all your great comments; they are appreciated.

[PRR Modeler]

Great looking roof Larry.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Coming on nicely, Larry.

For the roofing, in the future, I would keep to 6' plus a lap for a minimum length for corrugated iron for roofing.  So around 6'4".  Purlins are typically spaced at 3' centres, so 2' lengths would not even span for two nailing points. 

Cheers, Mark.

[Rick]

Larry, the weathering looks very good.

[Larry C]

Curt thank you.

Mark I may have misspoken. The 2 foot was the width of each strip of roofing and not the length before the lap.

Rick thanks; greatly appreciated.

[friscomike]

Howdy Larry, I agree with Rick, the weathering of the roof looks great.  Have fun, mike

[Larry C]

Mike thank you.

[labdad]

Roof looks great!
I just did one. It yours is better.
MJinTN

[Larry C]

Marty thank you so much and I'll take that as a high compliment.

[Jerry]

Larry that is one nice job on that roof!!  Great job!!

Jerry