Actually its so easy that I’m surprised that others haven’t done it already…and actually I bet most of you HAVE just with another medium. I just cut the cans flat (sawed off the top and bottom on a bandsaw and sliced up the side with siccors ) and then cut stripsotf the resulting material. Then I notch the strip about halfway through (4 HO SCALE feet apart looked right) and then applied the resulting strip to the roof with POWER GRAB. Just like we used to do in the smaller scales with construction paper. Start from the edge and work toward the peak making sure to stagger the notches and there ya have it…Easy but tedious, I think there are about 10-12 cans in the roof, but hey it was a rainy Saturday…
Yes it will stay out, but the layout is up on benchwork so it won’t be in close proximity to the ground, its gonna get a healthy coat of primer and exterior laytex…
Pepperoni, sausage, and extra cheese…but the pizza was already dead and buried this weekends…just to the left of the photo was the entire stack of cardboard waiting for me to take to recycling…