Jabulani Station - Part 6

Because of all the angles involved, the roof has turned out to be a little trickier than expected.  To ensure that I had adequate support during construction, I made a sort of jig to hold the entire building securely, with false walls to provide support for the canopy, and spacers with the correct roof slope. 

I very carefully and mathenatically worked out the lines and angles of the canopy sections, cut them to size and did a trial fit.  Of course, as you can see, I was way off in opposite corners.  That's what I get for not paying careful attention to squareness when first gluing up the walls.

So I eyeballed the fit as best I could and glued the canopy pieces together at the corners.  I then gave the whole canopy a shot of flat black spray paint above and cream below.  The whole was then glued to the walls.

Strips of pastel paper a scale eight inches wide were glued to the roof edges to represent the fascia boards. 

The canopy is covered with the same ribbed paper as the walls, but this time painted with spray can red automotive primer.  For the ridge caps I used a sheet of pastel paper, cut to a scale eighteen inches wide, and formed a slight ridge down the center by running a ballpoint pen along the back, using a sheet of styrene corrugated sheet as a guide. 

With the "corrugated metal" sheeting and the ridge caps in place, the slight variations at the corners where the walls weren't square is hardly noticeable. 

There is a bit of curvature in the front canopy, due to slight warping of the foam core board where the glue was applied.  Hopefully that will be taken care of when the supporting columns are glued in place. 

Next step is to attach the roof of the building itself.