15mm Italian Chapel - Spring Clean Challenge
Fixing the roof
The current roof, while nicely etched by the laser cutter, isn’t really ‘Italian’ in look and feel. I’m aiming for a more terracotta tile look, similar to the roofs you see in Tuscany, such as this:
I managed to find some plastic sheets with a roof texture molded on while searching ebay a few weeks back. These are aimed at the model railway community but will work perfectly well here. I think they were HO scale, which isn’t that far from 15mm.
You can just about see the texture on these sheetsI’ve cut the sheets to a few mm larger that the roof panels as I want more overhang. These were super glued on.
It did leave a gap along the ridge of the roof that I filled with green stuff. To create the capping tiles, I’ve used a drinking straw (paper, not plastic so no turtles were harmed in this spring clean challenge!) which I’ve just cut to size and super glued in place.
The roof will now need priming and then the whole chapel can be painted.
I’m going to mount the whole terrain piece onto a board. I’ve got some 3mm MDF lying around. I’ve laid out the design and drawn it in with pencil before cutting it out and rounding the edges off. I’m then going to use textured wallpaper to make a paved area across the MDF.
My MDF cut to size with the layout drawn on
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