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I decided to finish the cottage in the front of the diorama first.
Added the street name sign on the building and a drain pipe.
For the roof I had a look at several slate and red clay tile options. In the front of the diorama I try to use whenever possible light colours. The grey slate tiles I found didn’t look right to me so I choose the red clay tiles from Wordsworth Models (free download).
I also first searched for some background information and read it.
I wanted to give the roof an old look. To create a convincing appearance a looked for a picture on the website of CG textures. See picture below.
Then I did pick out a row that I wanted to model.
I carefully tried to make the row cutting and adding individual tiles.
Then I cut it on rows of two tiles high.
And then I come to the compromise. If I wanted to create a roof as on the reference picture I had to create it with individual tiles. But I wanted to use the tiles texture from Wordsworth. Then you have to glue them somewhat over each other.
In this way I laid all the tiles on the roof.
On the reference picture you can see there is a line of cement below the top edge.
I tried to model this with a Scalescenes concrete backyard floor tearing the texture carefully in an almost straight line.
After I glued this in place and I added the top tiles individually, the roof was ready.
And finally a pictures of the cottage details and a picture of the finished cottage on the layout.
After making and seeing this picture I decided to create a simple background model behind the cottage.
Regards,
Job
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