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Re: Tissue paper for roofing? - TrainNut - 01-27-2009
FiatFan Wrote:Thanks for the ideas everyone. I really appreciate it. I think I know how to proceed now.TomSo which way did you pick?
Re: Tissue paper for roofing? - FiatFan - 01-27-2009
I cut tissue paper into 3'X36' scale strips. I did some research online and that appears to be a standard size roll. Then I sprayed the sheet styrene wit 3M #77 adhesive and put the strips down, starting from the bottom, smoothing everything out as I proceeded. Then I let it dry overnight.
Yesterday I applied a mixture of half black and two-thirds medium gray (don't ask) craft paint with a little water added. Let it dry and attach the roof to the building. Then I mixed up a second batch of paint and gave the roof a second coat.
tom
Re: Tissue paper for roofing? - Russ Bellinis - 01-28-2009
Looking good!!!
Re: Tissue paper for roofing? - doctorwayne - 01-28-2009
FiatFan Wrote:Yesterday I applied a mixture of half black and two-thirds medium gray (don't ask) craft paint with a little water added.
tom
Wow!
Paints with GERN Brand flux-based additives generally give coverage that's 3% better than conventional paints - a 16% improvement suggests that test results may have been somehow altered. GERN's patent lawyers will be in touch. 
Wayne
Re: Tissue paper for roofing? - FiatFan - 01-28-2009
Yeah! Well, my lawyer's bigger than your lawyer.
Last time somebody tried this on me I got a nice cash settlement out of it so be prepared to pay up! I've had very good results with ACME paints.
![[Image: coyote_acme.png]](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/images/coyote_acme.png)
Tom
Re: Tissue paper for roofing? - jim currie - 01-28-2009
Tom that about the method i use except i cut the sheet after after paint is dry, the photo doesn't have good definition buy you can see I use black to paint the joints as usually done on tar paper roof's. also this method makes good looking window shades by just changing color.
Jim
Re: Tissue paper for roofing? - P5se Camelback - 05-02-2010
I use the cheapest "bum wad" you can find. I used it for the tar impregnated canvas roof coverings on my CLC's (the "Cute Little Crummies" - a string of seven four-wheel Bobber cabooses under construction.) I just took a sheet of tissue, laid it on the roof surface, and for a process test, painted one on with Testors liquid plastic cement, the next night painting it Floquil Weathered Black. For the other unit used in the test, I just painted the tissue on with the Weathered Black paint. Both processes worked well. To be honest, I did that so long ago (1989) that I can't remember which is which!
But ... the project is again under way, after 21 years in a box! 
biL