Spanish tiled roof suggestions?

[racm32]

any good suggestions on how to go about making Spanish tiled roofs?

[carlos marighela]

Yes, either the Wills/Peco sets or the styrene architectural modelling sheets by AMRI (?). You can pick up either/ both in most model railway shops or their online equivalents.The former are fairly rigid but well detailed. The latter are more flexible and the sheets slightly larger but thinner . I've tended to double up the pantiling along the edges when using the latter and usually make my own interior battens from balsa. The Wills ones are HO/00 so somewhere between 1/87 and 1/76 in nominal scale but they work well enough. The AMRI items ardesigned for architects display models so come variety of scales including 1/50.

My best tip to producing a realistic looking roof? Don't be lazy and paint it a uniform red/orange terracotta colour and drybrush like most folk do. Paint your roof in a base colour, I tend to a cheap biscuit coloured craft paint and then pick out the pantiles individually in variations on a theme, ochre, umber, dusty pink, terracotta in a random pattern. You can add washes and drybrush to blend.  It really does bring it alive. I'll post some painted examples if you like.

[Ninja]

I would love to see your work! 

[DoctorPete]

I second the call for pictures.   

[z1pp132002]

Corrugated card, cut into strips and glue back onto the roof base.

[carlos marighela]

If the sun comes out tomorrow morn I'll take some.

[carlos marighela]

Ok. Some Italeri buildings, the country house and the monster church as these were the easiest to get to.

The country house has the original cast roof. The church's roof was substituted for some plasticard sheet pantiling and the roof ridge was made by cutting up plastic drinking straws and overlaying one over another. The tiles on the roof are a different size and the ridges are just cut up strips of the roof material  If I did this again I would use some rounder pantiles than the ones I used but any way it's a considerable improvement on the weird crazy paving style roof that comes with the kit. For the curious the church tower stands around 24 cm tall and length wise the base is over 30cm.

[carlos marighela]

The country house to show the painting style I prefer for tiled roofs.

[carlos marighela]

Country House tiling paint scheme.

[racm32]

wow those look good. Your right that painting the individual tiles gives a far better effect.

[FramFramson]

Really nice!

[has.been]

I use ribbed rubber mat. It used to be sold in hardware stores to reduce vibrations by placing it under typewritters. It may not be available any more. I bought my, now much reduced, stock many years ago, although I did pick up a damaged one at a car boot sale last year for 10p.
Not much is needed to roof the average wargames building. It is flexible & therefore better at giving that saggy roof look. I paint one base colour, dry brush it then draw the lines (horizontal to show up the layers of tiles & vertical to then deliniate individual tiles) finally I pick out the odd tiles in different shades. I have found the very old mats are the best as wear & tear to the mat replicates the same for the roof, i.e. you can get some very nice 'crumbly' edges. The mat being rubber is very easy to cut. Off cuts are used on ruins and rubble piles.