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Flat roofs

Modeling
#1

I’m building a Timberline kit with a cedar shake roof but it has a flat-roofed porch. What did they do for flat roofs in the early 1900s? My thought would be a “rock roof” using sandpaper but are there any other thoughts?

#2
Doug Arnold said:
I'm building a Timberline kit with a cedar shake roof but it has a flat-roofed porch. What did they do for flat roofs in the early 1900s? My thought would be a "rock roof" using sandpaper but are there any other thoughts?
#3

My grandmother had a flat roof on her “Widow’s Walk.” It was covered with tar paper and LOTS of tar. Messy. I was always getting in trouble for going out there. I wondered how they knew, until I saw the footprints in the tar, along with the footprints across the carpet.

#4

If I tar it I’ll have to figure out how to spank G scale people!

#5

Hey Doug, which Timberline kit has a flat roof? The ones I have put together all have a bit of pitch to the roof. If it is supposed to be a flat roof, you could use spray rubber on it to simulate tar. Its usually in with the spray paints in the home box store. I have used it a few times for flat roofs.

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2112/2348707795_d47c163a1b.jpg)

-Brian

#6

Brian Donovan said:
Hey Doug, which Timberline kit has a flat roof? The ones I have put together all have a bit of pitch to the roof. If it is supposed to be a flat roof, you could use spray rubber on it to simulate tar. Its usually in with the spray paints in the home box store. I have used it a few times for flat roofs.

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2112/2348707795_d47c163a1b.jpg)

-Brian

Brian, My brother had some small plastic parts melt using that stuff. He said it gets pretty warm while curing. I have several cans I haven’t used yet. What materials have you used it with? Ralph

#7

Roof of this factory (hardibacker) -

(http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n214/altterrain/building%20projects/factorysidingsm.jpg)

and the roof of this block (plexi) then topped with a little of Bruce’s multitexture paint -

(http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff258/WVMGRS/sevenlocks-earl/spring09/earl-block.jpg)

I know I have used it elsewhere, too, and never felt any heat from it but I never put my tongue on it either :stuck_out_tongue: . -Brian

#8
Doug Arnold said:
I'm building a Timberline kit with a cedar shake roof but it has a flat-roofed porch. What did they do for flat roofs in the early 1900s? My thought would be a "rock roof" using sandpaper but are there any other thoughts?
A turn of the century flat roof would have been tar paper and tin.
#9

As a former roofer, I’d tear off a lot of standing seam tin porch roofs on homes built in the early 1900’s, usually with built in gutters.

#10

“Wasn’t me!”

“Oh? They’re bare foot prints.”

<Spank!>

#11

Brian, I like the looks of that factory.

Jon.

#12

Get a piece of the stick on rubber roofing, would look good and hold up well.

#13

The Timberline kit is The Pioneer. I thought that maybe since I’m legally blind that I had missed something in the directions but I don’t think I did. The cabin itself will look fine with the cedar shingles. It sounds like either the spray or the stick on rubber roofing are just what I need. I’ll see what I can get in California.

#14

I have done 2 pioneers. There is a small pitch to the porch roof. The plywood sub roof is angle cut to meet up for the pitch. I cut some support blocks to go on top of the porch rafters to support the roof on the back side closest to the cabin.

(http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n214/altterrain/building%20projects/logcabinsm.jpg)

(http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff258/WVMGRS/sevenlocks-earl/spring09/cabin1.jpg)

-Brian