I’m just about to start building this little house in styrene. It’s located near the hanging bridge. I need to know what this type of wall and roof is called? Is there anything out there that looks like it? I’m working in HO scale. How big do you guys think it is?
The roof is wood shakes - Campbell makes strip shingles. The kneewalls are stone that have “proud” joints; the “doorway” is probably 3’ wide and the walls are probably 4’ high. The left side wall looks to be about 1’ wide with a limestone cap which seems to be missing from the other sides, the walls are probably 8"-10" thick. There are a number of “stone” building papers that could be glued over the styrene for the walls. Walthers probably has the materials listed. Hope this helps![8D]
I can’t find Campbells homepage, do they have one? I found another shingle. Look at this:
http://www.newrailmodels.com/Products/Shingles/UltraShingles.htm
Those ultra shingles look good. I wonder if they have the texture though? On your prototype picture the shingles look very weather worn and aged. The shingles are literally slightly tapered wedges of wood, very often cedar. They are frequently untreated in any way and left on the roof to age naturally. With sun bleaching they take on an almost silvery sheen.
The roof shingles were usually cedar wood, and you can get real laser-cut cedar wood shingles in HO scale from Evergreen Hill Designs, product number EH307
Walthers web site is http://www.walthers.com/
If you do a Google search for Evergreen Hill Designs you can possibly find a supplier that will be much cheaper than Walthers.
Here’s a link to the Oso Rail web page, the Evergreen Hill Designs manufacturer, with a picture of their cedar shingles.
http://www.osorail.com/Evergreen_Hill_Designs/Cedar_shingles/Cedar_shingles.html
They can easily be weathered and distressed to look like the roof you want to make.
Here is my drawing.
Can someone please help me with the length of the house? I’m sure it can be calculated with the help of this picture:
I think that the distance between posts on chain link fence is 6 feet, so it looks like the fence in front of the building runs about three posts . That seems like about 18 feet long would be close. That’s just a wild guess. Hope this helps! Jim
18 feet is the same as 60 mm in HO scale. Sounds like you are close. My own calculations gave me 57 mm. Somewhere between these two measurements is probably ok.
I think I can make the roof now with all great shingle suggestions, but how do I make the stone wall? I can’t find any patterned sheets that are close.
I just lookd in the Walthers 2007 catalog and Plastruct lists sheets of random stone wall. It’s part #570-91591 on page 930. You may be able to use something like this or make a mold of a cast plaster wall and cast your own. Hope this helps! Jim