Full Version: Metal siding...a new,inexpensive way
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I came across this product on Ebay <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://cgi.ebay.com/Scale-Metal-Siding-Making-Die-5-WIDE-NEW-/120547229244?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item1c112cbe3c">http://cgi.ebay.com/Scale-Metal-Siding- ... 1c112cbe3c</a><!-- m --> Basically it a plastic formed die that can be used to form a "metal siding" imprint in aluminum foil,which in turn can be used to apply a metal siding covering on carboard stock.Since all of my future buildings will be modern buildings with this type of exterior cladding,I think this would be a very inexpensive way to create modern buildings(warehouses,stamping plants,etc)with aluminum foil and carboard stock.How much money would it cost to buy Evergreen or Plastruct plastic sheets to build one building?

I've actually seen heavy guage aluminum foil in the supermarket that would be perfect(it is avaliable in more than one thickness).
I used that very same die to "produce" the corrugated sheets for this roof.....

foulrift

Nice tip.I took a slightly different approach, I needed to make some metal fencing so what I did was to take some plain .020 styrene,figure out the spacing and then using the backside
of the point on a pocket knife and score the lines. Once painted,the results were good,however next tome I will use a thicker styrene just to avoid the possibility
of going through the sheet.
Bob
An advantage to using the die and foil to make the siding is that you can get scale thickness corrugated metal with that method. You will probably want to "back it up" with some styrene or card stock, but if you remember not to lift by the eves, you can leave an 1/8 inch overhang that will look scale thickness when viewed from the side.
That's very neat. Thanks for sharing! Smile