MY MODULAR ADVENTURE: Having fun a module at a time The ongoing story - Roofing the Roundhouse!
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Cover me up! Winter is here, may I please have my roof?
W
ow, I figured building roofs for this project would go like lightning. Wrong! After a lot of research I was no further ahead than before – is it going to be a tarpaper roof, or maybe some combination of corrugated metal with tar?
Because I based my design on the Heljan roundhouse to some extent, I might as well do the same for the roof. The Heljan kit has a steel roof, and because I was modeling my roundhouse in the late ‘60s, that would be a good choice. So I headed for the Web and check out how steel roofs were built. I found a picture on the web that was very close to the Heljan roof. Well, that really sealed my choice. Prototype: www.futureroof.com/ standing-seam-roof
Heljan: www.heljan.dk/webkontrol/ modul/filarkiv/visfil.asp?id=2145 One thing I did not like on the Heljan model was the design of the smoke stacks. I decided to use the ones in the Walthers Modular kit instead, as you will see. I had pre-cut all the roof panels. Now it was time to do some detailing. I figured things would go quickly ...
Figure 1: Roof over the machine shop and first stall.
Les Halmos has been a model railroader since 1979. He’s been involved with setting modular standards for the NMRA since 1981. In 2001, he founded the FreeModu-Rail Group and has been active in promoting Free-mo module standards. Click here to learn more about Les.
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