Fiddling on the Roof

More on the Dapol Village Church

But first the stained glass windows.

The windows are simply photographic images laser printed onto overhead projector film. that's all you need to do in 00 scale. In 7mm scale you can add the horizontal metal bars which in real life keep the windows from blowing in or buckling under the weight.

The roof tiles.

My method is first to create a grid of scale tile sized rectangles using your favourite graphics program or one of the free graph paper programs available online. The tiles should be about 50% taller than they are wide to allow some overlap. This is then printed out, preferably onto a sheet of black or dark grey card.
The verticals are then scribed with a fairly blunt knife. Try to scribe quite narrow lines but quite deep.

I cover the back of the card with horizontal strips of double sided banner tape before slicing the sheet into rows of tiles. I hope that the photo explains the process.
The self adhesive tile strips are then fixed to the roof overlapping in a typical staggered pattern as shown below. The roof here is made from stiff yellow card as the items supplied with the kit were twisted.
The lower edge has been scored and turned up a little to represent the gutter

The ridge tiles and edge capping are strips of the same card scored and bent accordingly.

The photo below shows the almost finished model. I'm fairly happy with it tho I may change the colour of the white cross and maybe add a little light weathering to soften the roof a little.