Say hey! I am looking for some ideas on what to use to make my own spanish tile roof shingles. These are the red terra cotta half round shaped tiles used on the roofs of many spanish style buildings. Any ideas, this is for O gauge /1:48 scale buildings. [;)] Ironhorse
What about plastic drinking straws? You could either cut individual “tiles” and lay them one by one, or just lay half straws side by side and paint lines to suggest the individual tiles. I’ve used drinking straws for gutters and downspouts, but I’ve often thought they’d work for tile roofing.
Also, I have seen clay tile sheets, but if memory serves they were 1:22 or 1:32. A bit big for O.
Becky
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good luck John (Jackie Jr)
I recently had a little project which requires a simulated clay tile roof.
I cut Twizzlers candy into 3/8" inch lengths. It might actually work for a real model, as long as you don’t have kids or pets…
Oooh, I like that answer! [:D] How did it taste? [C=:-)]
Becky
That picture of the candy house gave me a “brainfart”! They use white cardboard to pack them cakes and pastries in, I can separate that and get the inner corregated stuff and make my spanish tiles from those!! Oh man…what are friends for eh? Thanxs! [;)] Ironhorse
In truth, like cardboard. To get gingerbread strong enough to build with you have to use a ton of flour.
I’ll dig out my mom’s recipe for ya, she used to make great gingerbread houses! [C=:-)] You rolled out the dough very thick, like a quarter of an inch so when it expanded you ended up with very strong pieces. Assembly was done with carmelized sugar heated in an electric frying pan. The molten sugar made for an extremely strong glue. The “glue” didn’t taste very good though! But the gingerbread was the best!
Becky