Craig Townsend said:
Rick,
How did you make your die set?
I was afraid this question would pop up, it has been at least 15 years ago(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
So as best as I can remember;
1-- A block of hardwood long enough to make the top and bottom mold, sawn on the table saw with the blade set at 45 degrees.
The block has to be wider than the finish width of your roofing sheets.
2-- cut the block in half and reverse one half to the other, they will not match on the edges, now trim both mold halves to your
scale size in the table saw.
3-- Add side guides and your ready to make roofing. It is true that the profile will not be exactly perfect for corrugated roofing
but it is a good representation.
Oh, that sounds fairly easy to do. I’m guessing your 45 degree cuts are spaced at the width of the corrugations? So 1:20 would be wider than say 1:29. I might have to experiment when I get some more scrap wood.
Ricks idea for making corrugated sheets is very much like the one I mentioned in a railroad book I have.
The author used half round brass (available various sizes) on each die and then pressed both sides together in a vise.
The thing that bugs me about metal corrugated is the fact I can never get it to lay on smoothly going from side to side - only fore and aft on a steam shovel or logging crane roof).(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)
Ross,
The same problem exists with 1 to 1 scale roofing, trying to keep it lined up and square(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
Rick Marty said:
Ross,
The same problem exists with 1 to 1 scale roofing, trying to keep it lined up and square(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
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Thanls Rick.
Next job I will give it a try…the last job I chickened out and put wood strips (dilapidated) fore and aft on a logging winch setup.
Looks authentically homespun rough!!
Thanks guys. I think for 14 bucks I want to give steel a try. I might very well make a press like Marty did to press it. If the Friskers doesn’t work to my satisfaction. I had always planned to rust it myself and like how Dennis suggested that process. Worst case scenario I go back to cans and paint and weather chalk and have a roll of steel to use elsewhere.
Devon: for what it’s worth I’ve been using Dennis’s rusting method for a few of my projects and have been pretty happy with it. Nothing more realistic than real rust.
I am wishing I had deeper corrugations so may look at a different way to do that (several methods mentioned in this topic that look promising, thanks guys!) rather than the paper crimper thing. Have fun!
An example (from last year’s Mik project):
One more thing. In the original post by Dennis Rayon [link] where I learned about this technique, he both dipped in Muriatic acid and sprayed on hydrogen peroxide. Not sure he mentioned the hydrogen peroxide in his addition to this topic.
That looks dang convincing. Both yours and Dennis’ in the link