Realistic Corrugated Plate Roof

Hello, and welcome to a "Model Railroad Academy" video. In this video we will create realistic corrugated plate roof. Ja, there are numerous ways to create this popular theme of roof, of course. I would say that the advantage with this method, which will be presented in this video, is that it comes out self-adhesive, and the method is valued both for glass fiber semi-transparent roof and the good old corroded plate roof. We will use a product from 3M, it's called Micropore, as base material creating these plate roofs. This product is used to make Band-Aids so you'll find this product in your pharmacy. The tape itself consists from a large amount of nonwoven fibers. With this tape you can create both corrugated glass fiber and the plate roof. We also need a template to copy the shape of a corrugated roof from, so in this video I'm using Evergreen 4526, which is the pattern of a plate roof, corrugated. And I just peel a piece of the tape off and put it onto that styrene sheet, and then I use a toothpick to push the tape into each of the recesses. With that done, I just paint Elmer construction glue. This glue is absorbed by this fibery material and after the second layer, I have a glossy surface and then I can start to paint this. The tape with the glue is very thin so if you want to avoid any light shining through when ready you should start painting with black paint. Then to achieve a metal appearance I'm using acrylic paint, this one from Vallejo. I really like that metal paints now are available as acrylics. Back in the days, they were only oil-based paints. Now we're gonna create two washes, one is kind of iron red whilst the other is more towards black-brown. The wash will float into the recess of the roof and once a few minutes had passed, then I removed excess paint on the edges with a cotton swab. The roof construction itself is made from 3D-printed styrene profiles. This is a huge set of, I think, 69 different profiles which can be downloaded free of charge from Model Railroad 3D and you find that on a site called CGTrader. So once you glued that together, painted it, it's just to cut the piece of that roof you just created and with the adhesive, you just put it in place on that construction and you see it's a very thin and nice looking roof. All right, so you can prepare for both making large Band-Aids as well as you're preparing to make corrugated plate roof for your model railroad in the same purchase. That's something, isn't it. All right, I hope you have use for this method presented in the video. Thank you very much for watching, I'll see you in the next one.