Hello friends,

I'm having a hard task to do. I need to make roofing a house in the II WW.
My difficulty is the material used? What is the size in scale 1:35?
I need references if anyone has pictures, thank you for your help

regards
L.ZACCARO

This is not a hard task , you only need a bit of patience.

The easiest is to make a slate roof.
type "slate roof " in google and you will get everything you need.
Material used now is still the same as during WW2

Use all material with a thickness of around 0.25 mm. This can be plasticcard, cardboard (Kellog's boxes), fine sanding paper...
A good size for the visible tile is 10x4 mm , of course you must calculate more for the invisible (overlapping) part.

Cheers
Claude

Claude references the easiest way, easy materials, easy technique, just slow going.
The size and scale will vary depending on the region and the raw material. Again Claude has given you a great start.

Hi, you could try using paper (either colored or plain) cut to a uniform size and stuck onto the roof of a building. Hope I have helped!

Take a look at Hansa systems

Hi friends,

Thank you by tips !!!
Now is applied the techniques, and see result.

regards
LZACCARO

Umm ... what type of tiles?

Roofs can be made of stone (slates) or man-made tiles. Slates are usually made of slate, which is very thin and generally grey (although there are different shades). But they can be made of other stone as well. The most common is sandstone, which is much thicker than slate.

The style used for laying slates varies widely with time and place. As a very general rule, slate slates are the same size from top to bottom on more modern buildings, but can vary with height on older ones. Patterns made with colour or shape are quite common. Sandstone slates are almost always laid so that the ones near the bottom are much larger than the ones near the top.

Tiles come in three main varieties: flat terracotta tiles, pantiles, and concrete tiles. Flat ones are treated like slate, except that they're usually smaller. Pantiles are the ones with the semi-circular ridges running from top to bottom that allow them to interlock (like old Roman buildings). Concrete tiles can be either but are generally uncommon on pre-war buildings. (Remember, most of the buildings in Europe during the war were built a long time before the war.)

Flat tiles are relatively easy to make out of plastic sheet but pantiles are very, very different.

The usual rule applies: what part of Europe are you wanting to model, and what type of buildings were common there?

Hi Seán,

How are you ?
So... I want to make a diorama of II WW in Normandy - France.
I want build two houses, a Sherman tank, Americans Soldiers and German soldiers . That's idea. I should like it were a scenic rescue or help for civilians. You understand the idea?

Regards
L.ZACCARO

Luis,

If you don't have experience, my advice would be to keep it as simple as possible.
For two houses, do slate tiles, easy stuff for every beginner.
If you master that, you can upgrade to terracotta rounded style tiles.

I also recommand you to navigate this site a bit more, there are a lot of recent builds with excellent scratchbuild roofs. This will help for sure

Claude

Hi Claude

I also think it will be nice.
I will see other jobs, before build.

regards
L.ZACCARO