So i’m in the process of detailing/repairing my Blast furnace i Built oh, 8+ yrs ago. Im wondering on styrene sizes. Theres I beams that i would like to add currogated sheet to, but how do i come up with the size i need? Is there a tool for this, caliper? most styrene is .00something or other right? Thanks for the help
Dial calipers is what I use.
Most Evergreen corrugated siding is .040 thick so you might not have a choice. You will also have to match the corrugation spacing.
Really basic solution, take a piece of the existing siding to a hobby shop and compare the thickness and corrugation spacing to the Evergreen siding.
I would use Campbell Scale Models aluminum siding. It will look much better.
The spacing dosn’t concern me much yet as i’m using it in between the beams on the high-line. Thanks though, i think i have some around. Good thing the Walthers Shop/warehouse is only twenty minutes away.
Rlaymen:
You lucky so and so! 20 minutes from Walthers!! I’m jealous as heck!!! Of course I would now be broke if I lived that close.
I can’t help you much with the sizing, other than to suggest that if you have a picture of a prototype structure with something in the picture that you know the size of, you can use calipers to determine the size of everything in the picture. For example, if you have a piece of rolling stock in the picture of a known size, the dimensions of everything else in the picture will be relative to the known measurements of the rolling stock. One of the best things to use as a base for dimentions is a simple man door. They are always about three feet wide and seven feet high.
It is not an exact science. You have to take into account the viewing angle and you have to remember that things that are further back in the picture will be smaller than things in the foreground.
If you decide to used corrugated aluminum sheets I would suggest trying them out on a small test project before applying them to your main building. Build yourself an out building or something that will allow you to learn how to work with the VERY delicate aluminum sheets. If you look at them the wrong way they will crease and there isn’t a lot that can be done to repair the damage. Even getting them out on the package can be a challenge. I made the mistake of trying to apply aluminum roofing to a rather large structure without ever having worked with it before. I am not happy with the results and it is going to be redone. That’s a lot of dollars in the waste basket.
If you go with styrene the problem is that the sheets do not show individual panels. That is easily fixed by scribing artificial seams into the styrene.
In my personal opinion the aluminum only looks good if you can apply it very smoothly. I have seen many structures with corrugated roofing that looks like a tornado has just blown through. Even very old corrugated metal remains flat, with perhaps