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 Posted - April 03 2009 : 9:43:28 PM
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Hi, I am building a warehouse-type building, and i want it to have corrugated metal siding. Does anyone know any product that would work for this? Or how to make my own siding? Thanks in advance.
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Posted - April 03 2009 : 10:08:00 PM
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| Plastruct makes this type of siding as does Evergreen scale models. Both of these companies supply plastic bldg materials to custom make about anything. This type of siding is sold in packs of 3
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Posted - April 03 2009 : 10:12:37 PM
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I googled around and found this:
http://www.girr.org/girr/tips/tips4/cheap_siding.html
Looks so good I'm going to try it...
Mike
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 Posted - April 04 2009 : 5:46:18 PM
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WOW! that aluminum can siding looks great!! I'l have to try it. Thanks a lot.
-Jacob
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Posted - April 04 2009 : 5:48:03 PM
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When I read further it was a G gauge site, so there may have to be some adjustment...
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 Posted - April 05 2009 : 12:20:09 PM
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Hi, I picked up one of those paper crimpers at Michaels (they wouldn't let me use my 1/2 off coupon , but in the realm of life i guess 7 dollars off isn't gonna matter ) and cut up a bunch of pop cans, and the results were OUTSTANDING! After a few experiments, I found that you have to squeeze the handle pretty hard to get good results. The key when cutting the cans up is to not dent them, because the dent shows through the corrugations, if that makes sense . The results looked fine in HO scale a little bit big but still ok, and they would have worked in G scale and pretty much any scale in between. I will post some pics as soon as possible, but right now I'm gonna get back to work! (i probably am going to have to do between 40-50 pop cans )
-Jacob
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Posted - April 05 2009 : 3:57:54 PM
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AND handle cut aluminum cans carefully or you could cut yourself deep 
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Posted - April 05 2009 : 4:02:11 PM
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Right you are Microbuss!
Ok, I got the pictures, but first I have a question: How to join the sheets together? As of now I just taped them with electrical tape, and it looks kind of like a modern building (what I was trying to build), but not very realisitic. Maybe I could solder them or hot glue them? One other problem is that they curl up when you crimp them, but I think this could be solved by squeezing them in some kind of vice jig before crimping. I'll try this and post my results. Here's the pics:
Several sheets joined together with electrical tape (the dents are circled):
Up-close of my best sheet so far (no dents whatsoever):
Fiskar paper crimper that I used:
got it from michaels for 16 bucks.
-Jacob
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Posted - April 06 2009 : 08:03:00 AM
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Another great discovery! Good news and bad news. bad news is that the vice jig didn't work too well . . .they straightened a little bit, but not much. the good news is that I found a different way to solve the problem of straightening the sheets. It also fixes one other interesting problem. I think that when they make pop cans, they make the outside sort of like a "C" shape. In other words, the middle of the sheet of aluminum that you get when you cut the top and bottom of the cans off is raised up higher or down lower than the surrounding material. This proves to be a problem, but as I said before I found a solution! Ok, so what you have to do is cut the aluminum sheets (after you crimp them) into 2" x 2 3/4" rectangles. Then you hot glue them onto strips of balsa wood, or any other kind of wooden strips. This makes sort of a fence, but when you overlap different strips you get one big sheet, that looks pretty realistic. Plus this solves the problem of the "C" shape of the metal because the pieces are so small it doesn't matter if the middle bends out a little bit. By the way, I will be away from the forum for three days (April 6-April 8) so don't hold your breath for pictures
-Jacob
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