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Bought this engine house and I'm ready to put the roof together. I've decided I don't like the roof on this with the funky looking plastic for the glass. I thought maybe using thin plastic I'd make a rounded roof using radiused wooden supports. The problem I think I'm going to have is that the plastic,(.040" thick Evergreen Scale models Metal Siding sheet styrene) won't stay glued down, due to it's wanting to straighten back out. What do you all think, and how would you go about this? Maybe if I can find something thinner and more flexible, that would help. Also what to use to glue plastic to wood? Thanks.
I use a lot of aluminum metal flashing for roofs. It's lite weight, curves easy, bends easy & you can glue it down w/almost anything. I use a lot of E6000 that I buy at walmart, but you can use liquid nails, contact cement, wood glue or superglue(CA).
Go to Wally World, buy one of those big garage sale signs. It's styrene, white on the backside and much thinner. Should do the trick. As for plastic to wood glue, I'd use Walthers GOO or anything like that.
When I need to make some curved plastic, I sort of follow what a steel fabricator might do. I drag the plastic around a mandrel which gives it a permanent bend. In case it should want to relax back to its original shape, be sure to glue it down solidly (like others have mentioned).
Thanks guys. I found the same plastic stuff in .020" thick, I also got some balsa wood, so will experiement with those. I will be making the radiused roof supports out of balsa wood. I just have to figure out the radius of the supports, so it looks right, and cut them out. My problem now is drawing that radius for the length I need. Drawing it freehand won't get it.
I like the curved roof look. It's a nice change from the ordinary. Once you get the basic shape it can have rolled tarpaper using glued down paper strips too. I would start with a piece of 0.30" think styrene or even artist illustration board with bracing underneath to keep the shape stable.
The second picture here is a balsawood carved roof on a bank for yet another type of roof-look that might work for you.
I like the curved roof look. It's a nice change from the ordinary. Once you get the basic shape it can have rolled tarpaper using glued down paper strips too. I would start with a piece of 0.30" think styrene or even artist illustration board with bracing underneath to keep the shape stable.
The second picture here is a balsawood carved roof on a bank for yet another type of roof-look that might work for you.
Hey, thanks. I like those, great pics.
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