Corrugated iron roofing in 7mm scale
Believe it or not, this little narrow gauge engine shed started life as the wrapper from a microwavable panini, (Two for one at Morrisons as it happens).
The edible bit comes wrapped in a corrugated card tube which is lined inside with a silver card which I presume is heat reflective or something.
Once you have devoured the contents and scraped the escaped cheese off the inside of the wrapper, you are left with a roughly 8"x 6" square of raw material.
You can easily separate the flat silver card from the wavy brown bit by slipping a cocktail stick up the corrugations and gently easing the two layers apart. I find that it's best to do this after you have cut the parts to size to avoid flattening the corrugations, also, you can mark out on the flat side easier. You could I suppose, leave the backing card in place for extra stiffness.
Cut with sharp scissors to avoid flattening the parts with a steel ruler.
The shed is a frame of sliced down coffee stirrers, perched on two low walls of foamboard covered in scored brickpaper - home made of course. The rivets on the ridge are just tiny dots of pva glue applied with a needle.
A quick blow over with Halfords grey primer and a bit of airbrushed on rust and Bob's yer uncle.
The little freelance quarry engine is a hastily constructed plasticard body sat on a Kato 4 wheel chassis.
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