How to create a galvanized steel roof building?

[Stéphan]

Hi. I would like to learn how to create galvanized steel roof buildings. Thanks for your help!

[willz]

I use this style of Corrugated Card Rib, available at art shops.  Either using black or brown and paint it with oily steel / metal and dry brush rust on.

[Stéphan]

willz wrote:

I use this style of Corrugated Card Rib, available at art shops. Either using black or brown and paint it with oily steel / metal and dry brush rust on.

Do you know if it’s small enough to use on a 6mm building?

[irishserb]

When I made my 6mm African buildings a few years back, I believe that I used this Evergreen sheet for corrugated metal sheet roofing:

https://evergreenscalemodels.com/collections/0401-0mm-opaque-white-polystyrene-corrugated-metal-siding/products/4526-040-x-040-opaque-white-polystyrene-corrugated-siding

In this scale, I think it is a matter of creating the illusion of the corrugated sheeting, rather than actually making a scale representation of it.  Here links to some pics of the buildings I made.  Sorry that the photography doesn’t show the roof material better.

http://irishserb.blogspot.com/2018/11/more-progress-on-modern-6mm-african.html

http://irishserb.blogspot.com/2019/10/a-funny-thing-happened.html

Here is a pic from one of my imagi-africa AARs, still not very helpful, but hopefully conveys some idea of the effect:

The buildings were constructed from various sheet and strip styrene, solvent welded using a disposable syringe and fine tip to apply the solvent.  A brush can be used as well.  If you use a syringe, be sure to file down the tip, so that you don’t accidently inject yourself with solvent.

Hope this might be of some help.

[willz]

Stéphan wrote:

willz wrote:

I use this style of Corrugated Card Rib, available at art shops. Either using black or brown and paint it with oily steel / metal and dry brush rust on.

Do you know if it’s small enough to use on a 6mm building?

Works better for 20mm, though they might do smaller.  Have a look at art shop web sites.

[Stéphan]

irishserb wrote:

When I made my 6mm African buildings a few years back, I believe that I used this Evergreen sheet for corrugated metal sheet roofing: https://evergreenscalemodels.com/collections/0401-0mm-opaque-white-polystyrene-corrugated-metal-siding/products/4526-040-x-040-opaque-white-polystyrene-corrugated-siding In this scale, I think it is a matter of creating the illusion of the corrugated sheeting, rather than actually making a scale representation of it. Here links to some pics of the buildings I made. Sorry that the photography doesn’t show the roof material better. http://irishserb.blogspot.com/2018/11/more-progress-on-modern-6mm-african.html http://irishserb.blogspot.com/2019/10/a-funny-thing-happened.html Here is a pic from one of my imagi-africa AARs, still not very helpful, but hopefully conveys some idea of the effect: The buildings were constructed from various sheet and strip styrene, solvent welded using a disposable syringe and fine tip to apply the solvent. A brush can be used as well. If you use a syringe, be sure to file down the tip, so that you don’t accidently inject yourself with solvent. Hope this might be of some help.

Thanks for the info. I really appreciate.

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