Jabulani Station - Part 7

With the station building canopy in place, the next step is the roof itself.  This is again made with a sub-roof of 1/8" foam core board.  I didn't worry much about gaps, as that would be covered by the corrugated metal sheathing.

The edges of the roof were built up using 1mm cardstock to get the correct roof width and to handle the variations in slope at the corners of the canopy.  Strips of pastel paper were cut to a scale 8 inches in width and applied to the roof edges, and the whole was covered over with simulated corrugated iron.

The roof was then weathered using a wash of lamp black oil paint to bring out the detail of the corrugations.  The wash also stained and hid the white edges of the paper "corrugated iron".   Select "panels" and streaks were brushed in with rust-colored washes, and the whole was dry-brushed with a lighter tint of oxide red (sort of an oxide "pink").

Now on to the canopy supports, which will be one of the few parts of the model made using styrene.  I used to work exclusively with styrene, but I've found paper construction to be much more versitile and forgiving of error.