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Keep those offcuts as you are shaping the shingles, they make great 'scrap wood' to scatter around and/or put in the empty 55 drums.
Thanks for looking and as usual all comments and suggestion are welcome. Happy Holidays to all and to all a good night. Randy
Like the other members who have responded I am enjoying and learning from your well illustrated and instructive build of Kit #315, The Water Tank and Handcar Repair Shed.
Later, Dave S. Tucson, AZ
I wanted them to be well used and weathered.Also I am planning to skip the cardboard roof supplied with the kit and replace it with perlans. I read somewhere that shake shingles should have about one third exposed. So the thirty inch shingles that brett has us use would need about ten inches exposure. So I mocked up some perlans using one eighth by .020 wood and some of my cedar shingles.
The perlans are about a scale six inches apart. I propped up the bottom edge of the shingles with some scrap shingle from the tank roof build. I then added rows two and three.
after looking at the picture I see that the second row should have been moved down about four scale inches. The exposure of the second and third rows I think looks better than the first and second rows I will be sure to get that right when I work on the real roof. As always thanks for looking and all comments and suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks, Randy
The normal is 5 inches to the weather having a older home I replaced the roof.at that spacing.
24" shingles would have a 6" reveal, 18" shingles would have a 4.5" reveal.
The bottom of the third row needs to overlap the top of the first row, and so on up through the roof, thus closing any direct gaps for water to pass through.
However, it doesn't rain in my hobby room so as long as it looks good to my eye, I'm good with it and dont worry too much.
Dont worry so much about the measurements, as shingles vary, but think more about the process and placement.
I'm going to need to put a little more effort into some of mine in the future.
Really nice work.
Indeed, your second and third rows exposure looks just right, to me too.