Shawn,
Shingles:
1. Start with a sheet of 20# bond paper.
2. Choose the colors you want the shingles to be. Mine are dark
gray, with similar tones, maybe three or four colors.
3. I use cotton balls to hold the paint, and streak the page from
top to bottom, with the colors.(yeah, I use rubber gloves for
this part)
4. When the page is colored, set aside to dry thoroughly.
5. On the Bachmann tower, I had to sand the raised ribs down to
a smooth surface.
6. Take the dry page, and cut strips, 18 scale inches wide , across
the streaks. then cut the strips into scale width, 6"-12",
shingles.
7. The shingles are attached to the roof with carpenters glue.
Start the course at the bottom edge of the roof, by using a strip
that is the full width of the roof, then lay in the first of the
individual shingles on that strip. From that point on it's just
like the prorotype, except glue replaces the nails.
8. At the peak of the roof, the cap shingles can be folded, and
layed on top of the last courses. Start at each end, and work
to the center, overlapping the shingles, the final piece should
be in the center of the roof, on top of the last cap shingles.
Pete
