Inspired by requests I made a quick tutorial how to archive the tiled roof effect of the Fortified Church I posted some weeks ago:
You will need
- a sharp hobby knife
- a coin
- corrugated cardboard
Working steps
I. Cut out of corrugated cardboard the desired shape for your roof
II. Carefully cut lines on the “curvy” side of the cardboard without cutting comletely through the flat backside.
III. The result should look something like this: The cradboard is still in one piece and because of the cutted lines you can easily bend the cardboard.
IV. Now take a coin and carefully press the cardboard down with it along one side of each cutline to create the illusion of layered tiles.
V. Finish the whole piece of carboard and model your building 🙂
The big advantage of using this method is, that it´s relatively easy to model buildings with complex roofes like the church building has in a very short amount of time (with gnarly ankles and triangular shapes). In my experience that´s not archivable with the common method of glueing single strips of cardboard one above the other.
Happy modelling!
PS: In case there is something unclear, drop me a comment below and I will try to clarify.
Skarloc´s 
You’ve made that look easy and it looks really good! I think I might give that a try, so thanks for posting!
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Nice! Give it a go, it´s fun and as easy as it looks.
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Nicely done. I used a similar technique using the corrugated cardboard cup holders from Starbucks for a tiled roof on a Japanese rice barn, althought I painted mine blue, then inked them to look like glazed ceramic tiles.
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Hej Crow! Using cup holder which are free is even better, because corrugated cardboard is quiet expensive in the shop.
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I always try and find ‘free’ materials – wooden coffee stirrers from McDonalds, textured wallpaper samples from DIY shops, etc. The amount of free stuff you can source is quite large, once you start thinking this way. And it mrans you can save your pennies for the stuff you can’t make yourself.
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More cash for minis sounds very good to me 🙂
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What a neat idea. I live a hop, skip, and a jump away from a place that has a lot of roofs like that, and it does look very good. The only thing I can think of, if you want to represent a roof that isn’t new, but in good repair, I’ve noticed that such roofs tend to have a lot of dark mold and crude, especially on the insides edges of some of the tiles.
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The church including the roofs looks too clean in my opinion. It should be more dirty, crusty etc. But motivation went low after building and paint as it is now. When motivation comes back one day, I will do more weathering 🙂
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It looks really good though. Maybe for now the church got a new roof? 🙂
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That’s rather excellent. When I’m building historical or fantasy buildings again, I’ll definitely come back to this article.
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Brilliant mate, thanks for doing that little tutorial it is just what I need for the project I’m working on now . I didn’t think for one moment about using corrugated cardboard ,well done .And like CC said I’m always on the lookout for the free material and what use I can put it to .
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Heh ! mate ,since you last put me onto this I have been able to use it for my next dio which is all ready to be put together very soon , so keep your eyes out for the rooves on the Spanish inn and out building . Is ok if I mention your site in regards to how to make them , I’m sure other people would be very interested, like I was, and it came at the right time ,just as TIM’s tree method did . Rgds Pat
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Hej Pat! Looking forward to your house and hope, that everything worked out easily for you. Feel free to link and share.
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Thanks mate ,just started on the new one just now , winter has come upon us here down under so suddenly it caught me by surprise , but on the up side it will add to the atmosphere when placing all the little guys and girls in the icy conditions required for the theme of this dio . My best critics ,( being the daughters ,not young and obliging as they once were ) have given me the thumbs up on the rooves ,so that is a big pat on the backfor you , I can’t wait to put the finished result up! . I will try to get the photographer to get some shots of our collaboration on rooves ,eh .!
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Pooh, I´m glad that we received approval by such a strict commitee 🙂 … and I´m happy that you could make such a good use of the basic idea, horray! Looking forward to the pictures Pat!
Greetings to down under from up above
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Thanks mate ,With that support I have no excuse ,but to soldier on in the shed tomorrow ( 55 F ),Having spent a few years as a guest back in the 70’s in the UK I should not think the weather here is not to bad , but some old buggers get a bit soft , don’t they !
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Started the new dio yesterday , looking good ,the rooves are great ,should be up by the end of the week ,I’ll be interested to get some feed back on your method, thnks again mate !.
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