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Dontshootme
#1 Posted : 22 June 2013 17:13:45

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Please guys I need HELP in a big way.I bought my wife a dolls house kit for christmas that has a mansard roof..for those who don't know what that is it's a flat roof on mainly Georgian houses with a parapet & is commonly lead covered.
The house is built & the various architectural features are being collected ready for installation,ie bricks,slates etc.
Now here comes the crunch...I very foolishly said that the lead roof will be easy.....well it is..if i want to take out a mortgage on a dollshouse that isCursing Blink Blink Blink
I have looked everywhere that I can think of to get lead for this ..or something that looks like lead...but for a 750mm x 330mm roof the minimum it will cost it £45 & that is for actual flashing & is lead coloured bitumen(not nice).
Dolls house forums are particularly unhelpful as other people have found out,usually being ignored although someone sujested Humbrol Metalkote but I can only find polished stel in that.Tried using some metal black on aluminium foil...but it ate it!!!!Blink the idea was that i was going to tarnish it then cover some card with it to give that soft metal look
I have now run out of ideas.
Does anyone PLEASE have any suggestions or ideas of things to try that I haven't?
Hopefully someone can help me as I have a wife breathing down my neck muttering "thats easy he said,I can do that....mutter mutter mutter"...it's not nice..I have started hearing it in my sleep!!LOL LOL LOL
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#2 Posted : 22 June 2013 18:06:13

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Hi Rob,
I bought some lead for my VICTORY it costs £3.20 cheap enough.
Anyway if you look in e-bay for number 181160653224 theirs some for not much more it's 3"x8" and the name is Lead-works.
Hope this helps.
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#3 Posted : 22 June 2013 18:47:53

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Thanks for the reply Glen,I got some a while ago for my Vic as well,but to do the dolls house would cost iro £110...nearly had another heart attack when I worked it out!!!
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#4 Posted : 22 June 2013 19:04:37

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Church roof it is thenLOL
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#5 Posted : 22 June 2013 19:08:33

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have a look at lead foil adhesive sheet 110mmx50mm @£1-79p a sheet on e-bay just type lead foil its for weighing fishing line I think we look at the same thingBlushing but there lead flashing 150mmx3metre for£23 -76 plus£8 postage on e-bay
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#6 Posted : 22 June 2013 21:07:25

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Hi Rob.

I would suggest a cheapie way would be to use sheets of plasticard for the main part of the roof with self adhesive copper tape (anti slug type of thing like I used for my Victory's copper tiles) to produce the lead flashing up against the parapet walls. You can scribe panel lines into the plasticard to simulate the joins in the lead sheeting and then mask off the parapet and spray paint the lead parts with a suitable metallic silver grey car paint from Halfords or some such. (Probably need to primer the copper tape, I haven't tried spraying that before)
Should be around £10 - £15 or so?

Hope this helps a little.

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Hear you go...

http://www.modelsrgo.co....verlinden-lead-foil.html
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#8 Posted : 24 June 2013 10:18:45

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Many thanks for all the suggestions guys,much appreciated.
I visited my dad yesterday & we had a brain storming session & he remembered a product he used to flash a sunroom roof some years ago & went searching...there is just enough left to do the job....which is lucky as it is not made anymore,it also has the benefits of not actually being lead so no health issues.BigGrin
It's hard to explain what it's made of,& no way of knowing as the label is long gone,but it sort of feels like a butyl type material but is a bit stretchy like rubber,but its not either.....if you get what I mean.ConfusedBlink It does have one very good quality though,once exposed to light it gets darker just the same as lead.
Once I have covered the roof I will put up a picture for you to see the effect,just got to get some balsa to simulate the ridges nowCrying
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