On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 05:47 AM, Gary McMills wrote:
I was attempting just to go one step better with the 3 tab black asphalt shingles.
I haven't had any experience with the recent gummed paper products, but I've shingled enough roofs to know that three tab shingles are a LOT smaller than modelers think... Each tab is 12" long and only 5-3/8" exposed to the weather. That's 1/16 of an actual inch in HO scale. I did a depot roof years ago using .060" Evergreen clapboard siding, scraping the face flatter with a razor blade so the exposed edges weren't as thick and then scribing the tab cuts every 12" on alternate rows... Never again! Most my buildings got roll roofing thereafter. There was a injection molded styrene product, about 2-1/2" x 11" sheet that was accurately scaled, but I forget the manufacturer; Rix, maybe.
