Need assistance with scale for a 40k-size building roof

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**Ouze**

Hey guys. I found a decent sale a while ago for some pegasus building terrain like so:

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These are pretty neat kits, but they don't have any roofs. I'd like to make some roofs that you can take off and replace, and maybe some flooring.. but for now, I need to ask about roofing.

Google image search showed people had pretty nice results with ribbed roofing:

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and I found some on ebay that seemed about right: http://www.ebay.com/itm/JTT-SCENERY-97409-RIBBED-ROOF-1-24-G-SCALE-2-7-5-x-12-SHEETS-JTT97409-/121933274220?hash=item1c63ca1c6c:m:m1W9F6uQgW1GcKYH035HNRg

This is where I need help, because I absolutely do not understand scale at all an have gotten burned by my inability to do basic math. Will that roofing tile look right on this terrain?

If anyone has any alternate ideas, I'm all ears.

Thanks!

**Alex Kolodotschko**

That sort of stuff is pretty scaleless so you'll get away with anything.
The sheets measure 7.5" x 12" and have 8 ribs, therefore the spacing between the ribs is just under an inch.
The roof will not look as fine as the one shown in the picture but the sheets wouldn't be unrealistically wide, approx 6ft irl.
Try mapping it out on a sheet of A4 and see how that looks.

**Kilkrazy**

Pegasus buildings are designed for 28mm. This is normally reckoned to be about 1/60 scale but due to heroic proportions, 1/48 scale vehicles and aircraft work pretty well. In fact, 1/35 scale vehicles do nicely in 40K.

The 1/24 scale ribbed is double 1/48, which will make the ribs look quite wide apart. However as you are roofing a church, not a lean-to shed, I think the sheet you have chosen will do very well, and look like church lead roofing, see pic below...

**Ouze**

Awesome. Thanks, guys!

**AllSeeingSkink**

I had a look at the JTT catalogue. If the image in the catalogue is properly scaled (it says it is) then HO scale the ribs are 1/8" (approx 3.2mm) apart. HO scale is 1/100, so in 1/24 scale the ribs will be 3.2*100/24 = 13.3mm apart.

EDIT: Actually the catalogue has some numbers below the picture, maybe that's the rib spacing? It says 9.5mm for 1/24 scale, so perhaps they don't scale up perfectly from HO to G scale, a bit confusing. Either way it's probably in the ballpark of what would look fine.

It's on page 20 of this catalogue...
http://www.modelrectifier.com/RESOURCES/JTT/JTT2014CATALOG.PDF

JTT actually have some REALLY nice products. I haven't seen them before, I wonder if they're available in Australia. Their trees are very sexy and they have some very nice textured plastic sheets. The Dressed Stone one would be awesome for a scratch built castle if it's not too expensive.

**Kilkrazy**

Surely embossed plasticard is available in Australia?

**AllSeeingSkink**

Yeah of course, I was talking specifically about the JTT stuff as some of it looks quite nice.

**Ouze**

Well, since we're talking about it anyway, what sort of roof is appropriate for these buildings? I'm going with this because it looks sort of right to me, and it's cheap and easy:

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but would thatch be more right, or way less right? I could probably make that reasonably easily as well, and it would look better, if it would look "right". But buildings made of that kind of regularly-cut stone don't use thatch roofing, right?

Spanish tile is also not right, I think. But again you guys surely know more than I do so what do you say?

**AllSeeingSkink**

The overscale ribbed roof in your original ebay link is probably about right.

I'm no historian, but I don't think you'd see a corrugated roof like the image you posted on that sort of building, nor would you see a thatch roof on such a building. I believe it's more likely to be slate roof tiles or ribbed roofing. I think the ribbed roofs were often actually a metal (lead?) covering.

**Kilkrazy**

Old church roofs often are made with lead that is laid down in overlapping sheets curled over at the vertical joins to make them watertight. The horizontal joins are overlapped like slates. You can see this appearance in the pic below.

The reason the built-up gothic church model with roof looks a bit unnatural is that the roof is very neat and clean compared to the look of a real roof, because it's a single sheet of plasticard. It would be easy to cut up the card and lay it down in a more antiqued style, and do some weathering.

Thatch is an unusual material for church roofs, especially gothic style, but slate would be a good option, and is also available as plasticard.

**Ouze**

Perfect, that's exactly what I needed. Thank you again.

**Kilkrazy**

It's a pleasure to help a fun modelling project!!

**Littletower**

Going along with what was said before, the G scale "oversized" ribbed roof would probably work great for replicating the lead covering of a Gothic building. Slate would be an option too, thatched roofing or tiles, not so much, particularly for a church.

The O scale (closer to 28mm) ribbed roof would probably look to much like corrugated sheet, also less "true" to Gothic architecture.

@AllSeeingSkink: Great catalogue indeed. There is an Australian distributor listed on the last page, hope info is up to date.