Tom, Well yes indeedie I have seen such roof stock before, but in HO, not S. It is from a verrrrry long time ago, and would probably have no usefulness in today's modern train world. The reason it is made thusly is that the maker didn't want to have to bother with all the little teensy pieces that go under the roof walk, so instead a thicker piece of roof walk was glued directly to the roof stock, thusly keeping the 1/8" thick piece nice and flat, and the scribed roofing butted up against it. It almost looked good if your bifocals were all smeared up with vaseline. If'n it were mine, I'd be using my ultra sharp block plane and removing said whump-in-the-middle before applying the scribed roofing right up to the middle.
Darrell (S)mith --- In [email protected], Thomas Baker <bakert@...> wrote: > > Perhaps ten years ago now, a modeler who left S scale because of illness > offered a collection of wooden roof stock for sale which I purchased. There > would have been nothing unusual about this: Wooden roof stock is still > around, but among the items purchased was a curious type of overhanging > freight car roof stock. > > The overhanging type roof stock would be used for single and double sheathed > box cars, stock cars, and refrigerator cars. The odd feature of the roof > stock to which I refer is its profile. Rather than rising to a peak, it rose > from the sides--as one would expect--but then flattened out at the top to > allow--apparently--for one to place the supports for the roof walk. The roof > walk would then mask the fact that the roof stock did not go to a peak. And > one could, of course, at the end mask the flat area with ends that did go to > a peak. > > Anyone ever see such stuff before? It does not appear to be basswood either. > > > Tom > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
