And so here we are. Never intended to write tutorials, but what the hell. If there is interest, I will document my next cottage build to give more in-depth instruction. I dunno. My wife thinks I oughtta do videos, and I suppose I could give it a shot. If you want to see that, let me know.
STEP THE FIRST.
Cut up a bunch of strips of the cereal box cardboard. I did mine about an inch wide. Length is about 1-2 inches longer than your roof length. You do whatever makes you happy, but there is totally a reason for this.
STEP THE SECOND.
Take your scissors and do some little snippy snips approximately halfway up your strip to get them shingles started. Don't worry about making the shingles the same size, or even about making 90° cuts. It's gonna look better all wibbly-wobbly.
STEP THE THIRD.
Whip out that hobby knife and widen your scissor cuts. I do little elongated triangles. Play around, see what looks good to you.
STEP THE FOURTH.
Start making your shingles different lengths and make some them kinda jagged or woobly. Who wants symmetry? No one, that's who. Once you have the basic shapes done, further refine the look by cutting the corners off of each shingle. Like this:
STEP THE FIFTH.
Now that you have a buttload of these strips made, start gluing them sum-bitches onto your roof. Offset each new row of shingles as best you can. Some shingles won't line up right, and that's totally okay, because we want this thing to look like it's old and inexpertly built. You can always cover up any weird spots with moss or something.
STEP THE SIXTH.
Once you glue all your shingle strips aaaaalll the way (and that glue is more or less dry) go ahead and trim off all that overhang. Its gonna look so good after, I promise.
STEP THE SEVENTH.
Cap the roof with overlapping squares on the ridge, like you would on a real house.
STEP THE EIGHTH.
Paint! Use whatever colour you want. Then dry brush with a sort of tan colour. Then BAM! Black wash! The one I used is just water, black and sepia acrylic inks (I don't know the ratios. I kinda just kept adding stuff till it looked good) and a drop or two of dish soap. Check out Black Magic Crafts' recipe if you want a better one than this. Once the wash dried, I went ahead and did a more gentle dry brush of my tan. I suppose you could take it further and do a final super light dry brush of white or ivory, but by this point I was tired and and didn't feel like it.
And that's it, really. It's maybe not the most detailed instructions, and if you have any questions, feel free to hit me up and I'll do my best to clarify. I'm far from a professional modeler, but I really do have fun doing it.
Consider pitching me a couple bucks every month! Seems like I keep running out of paint, so helping me out on Patreon goes a long way to keeping me painting and glueing. Cheers!
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