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Frederic Testard
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France
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 Posted - 03/15/2011 : 7:40:39 PM
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The church is looking nice, Ron.
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milocomarty
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elwoodblues
Fireman
Canada
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Posted - 03/21/2011 : 10:28:43 PM
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Thanks for the comments everyone, sure feels good working on the church again, just wish I had more time to work on it. Speaking of working on the church, I did find some time to work on it again this weekend and managed to get some shingling done. 
A few hours work and the roof was done.
Unfortunately only one side of the roof was done. [:-banghead]
This is as far as I got before I ran out of shingles. More are on order and hopefully they should arrive shortly.
While gluing the shingles on one by one I have come to the conclusion that shingling a 1:1 roof would go faster than the model one.
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Ron Newby
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Clearwater Valley Railway Co.
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Frederic Testard
Engineer
France
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Posted - 03/22/2011 : 05:46:50 AM
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While gluing the shingles on one by one I have come to the conclusion that shingling a 1:1 roof would go faster than the model one.
Interesting comment, Ron. When I'm doing this kind of work, I ALWAYS keep repeating to myself that it's easier on the model than in reality. If you begin to ruin this belief, I'll probably fall into utter despair...
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elwoodblues
Fireman
Canada
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Posted - 03/22/2011 : 07:59:31 AM
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| Frederic, I tend to agree with you about trying to convince yourself that it is always easier to do in the model, but after an hour of glueing on shingles the mind tends to wonder.[:-bigeyes] |
Ron Newby
General Manager
Clearwater Valley Railway Co.
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Rick
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 03/22/2011 : 08:04:24 AM
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Ron, good choice using shingles instead of the corrugated.
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Tommatthews
Fireman
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Posted - 03/22/2011 : 09:40:52 AM
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Ron,
That is a lot of work. Nice job in over lapping the joints.
How many shingles? |
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Mike Hamer
Engineer
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Leo Starrenburg
Crew Chief
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Posted - 03/22/2011 : 12:54:20 PM
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And don't forget the church food !
Very nice model Ron, I'll re-run your story on it, think I have just the spot for it on the old F&B lay-out.
cheers, Leo. |
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Geezer
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USA
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elwoodblues
Fireman
Canada
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Posted - 03/22/2011 : 10:32:58 PM
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Thanks for the comments and words of encouragement everyone. Now to answer some questions and/or comment on the comments.
Rick, I choose to go with the shingles because for me corrugated roofing has too much of an industrial feel to be used on a church (at least in this part of the world).
Tom, lets just say there are a lot of shingles, I think it would be too depressing to count them. [:-bigeyes] (ok because inquiring minds want to know, I have glued approximately 756 shingles so far.)
Mike, Leo, A fundraiser with church foods sounds like a party to me, just need to get CCR to provide the music. 
Geezer, not sure how I'm going to finish the roof yet. I do know that I would like to age it so it looks like it's been on for a couple of years, but not so mush that it looks like it is time to replace it. Initial thought is to make a light/medium grey stain and then maybe an A/I wash. Will need to experiment some first. Any ideas are certainly welcome.
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Clearwater Valley Railway Co.
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Geezer
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USA
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visman48
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 03/23/2011 : 10:31:44 AM
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Ron,
On my fishing shack, I did a thinned wash of Floquil grime...its very light then, and establishes the base color you can then do any color of A/I washes. I did not try just a light gray alcohol A/I stain on the cedar shakes. I am pleased as to how mine turned out. If your church and roof is new, then the color is about right (new houses in neighborhood have new shake cedar shingle roofs) its it older by a couple of years then its gonna gray out. Cedar here on the east coast grays out pretty fast if untreated.
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elwoodblues
Fireman
Canada
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Posted - 03/23/2011 : 12:35:17 PM
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Geezer, Les,
Thanks a lot, that is just the type of input I am looking for. The way I see it, while fresh new untreated shingles look great in real life, they don't seem to look the same way in model form. Seeing as the rest of the surrounding buildings are weathered to one degree or another, the fresh untreated shingles stand out. In my first attempt to weather the ceder shingles I applied to the walls of a building I used just used washes of A/I. While it darkened the shingles nicely you could still see the brown quite clearly, so I had dark brown shingles. I know for a fact that when red ceder shingles age they go grey. Les, I followed along with great interest when you did your shingles on your fishing shack. Will have to see if I still have some floquil grime. Floquil is getting near impossible to find around here. For the record I used real cedar for the shingles. Again, thanks again for the input.
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visman48
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 03/23/2011 : 1:59:42 PM
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Ron
Glad to help, I would then suggest a latex or vellejo type paint thinned and washed on till you get the base color. Why wash? Well you dont want to "paint it" on and fill up those nice cracks and grain. Use a light gray polys or thinned craft paint.
Did you wire brush and weather texture your shingles?
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