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I finally got to work on the roof. I made some modifications. I went ahead and used stripwood to replace the cardboard roof and ended up painting the corrugated roof. I felt like there was just too much brown and rust blended together. I used a chipping technique to paint it green then remove as if the rust was bubbling from beneath. there's a closeup so you can see the details of the effect.
I ended up putting the gas pump in the back because I was not happy with the results I got on my build. Also used some strip styrene to cover the seam on the wall sign.
Terry
Tarpaper is a lesson I learned from Robert G. I love the sharing that goes on here.
The longer answer is this. There is a stretch of road west of me that has a lot of peanut and cotton farms. There are many buildings with green metal roofs. Though most of them are ribbed and not corrugated. For a long time I wanted to try to model one of the rusty green roofs. Tried it on the shed for Blue Sky and got a shiny finish. Tried it on the metal shack in O'Neills and liked the results. So...
To get the finish I painted gray. Slightly darker than usual then followed this with a light gray wash. I was going for gray showing around the rust on each panel and wanted some depth to the coloring. I painted my main rust areas with a textured rust paint and blended the edges best I could. Followed this up with enamel wash of dark rust with spots of light rust and dark gray. Once dried the individual panels looked OK. Once installed on the roof my response was MEH! I painted on a coat of heavy weather effects and mixed some in with my paint and painted the roof green. After it dried I scrubbed off about 1/2 of the green and followed with a light brushing of enamel dark rust.
I've always considered color to be a personal taste. I like the rusted roof on Brett's pilot and on Joel's build. Just didn't like it on mine.
Let the planting begin. Here we have the basic structure of our "vine that ate the south "Pueraria montana var. Carl Laskyi". The vine stem is roots from a juniper. I wrapped them around the post where it will grow and spread out the "branches". I'll trim it up as I start detailing around this area. Last step will be to add some foliage.
A sbs would be awesome.
Ken, spreading over roof is a good idea. Just not sure how much of the roof I want to cover and how "bushy" I want it to be.
For another option, I was perusing online pics for "vine covered shacks" and have found some interesting ones that support the idea of letting the vines reach for the sky...trimmed of course. This photo was from an uncited Pinterest post and its kind of pixeled but it shows a nice silhouette of bare vines (probably trumpet vine) reaching a good 4 feet above the roof line.
I have some time to mull this over as I am now starting to add the details onto the base. I'll see what grows on me (;
Tom, I agree. Looks like something Ken would build.
I loved the way you did your casting. Would you mind sharing which washes/filters you used? Did you order them through Amazon?
Thanks
TomK