Canadian Pacific section house Fig. 5 Fig. 6
warpage on a large surface such as a roof. Instead, use contact cement dilut- ed by an equal amount of contact ce- ment thinner. Once diluted, the drying time is greatly accelerated, therefore you can disregard the instructions about waiting ten minutes after the glue is applied before attaching the parts concerned. In fact, you can attach the shingle strips as quickly as the di- luted glue can be applied to each sur- face. A chisel-shaped toothpick works well for this purpose. Continue apply- ing shingle strips row on row until reaching the top of the roof. With both sides thus completed, turn your atten- tion to the ridge cap. Unfortunately, the ridge cap cannot be applied in a continuous strip, but rather must be glued to the roof one shingle at a time. The cap shingles are prepared from a strip 12″ wide, but pri- or to parting the strip off its sheet, lightly score the strip lengthwise down the middle of its back side. Now cut the individual cap shingles from the strip in 12″ lengths, fold along the score line, and glue to the ridge while overlapping them by half. Although the vestibule’s roof is han- dled in an identical manner to that of the main roof, the lean-to’s roof is not. Possibly due to the lean-to’s more gentle slope, it was instead covered with tarpa- per. This is easily simulated with 400- grit sandpaper cut into three-foot wide strips and glued to the roof with diluted contact cement.
The sandpaper cuts well with a hobby knife but plan on replacing the blade af- terwards. I was fortunate enough to find some black sand paper in my local hardware store, so I did not have to paint it. However, should you not be able to locate black sandpaper, a coat of flat black paint will suffice. By now your model of a humble, but nonetheless important, railroad section house should be finished and ready to be installed on your layout.
Bill of materials
Grandt Line No. 5009 12 pane windows
Tichy Train Group No. 2506 Windows
Misc. 12″×12″ Stripwood 6″×6″ Stripwood 2″×8″ Stripwood 8″ Outside dia. brass tubing
the shingle strips in alignment during application. Although I have recom- mended using white glue throughout
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this project, I find it is not well suited for applying shingles as it shrinks slightly while drying and can cause
.010″ and .005″ Sheet brass 1 sheet each: 1 ply, 2 ply and 4 ply Strathmore
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