Michaels Craft Stores has on sale corrugated paper 12 inch x 12 inch for $.99 a sheet. The Recollections bar code is 4 00100000087 8 and is located in the scrapbook section with all the other printed paper. For those who do not want to use metal foil, this is an inexpensive alternative.
Paul Goodness
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I have been hunting a cheap corrugated material for a large mine I want to build.....but every pre-made corrugated material I have seen scales out to ridges a foot tall!!! Way to large. I even bought a crimper that was listed online as a 'small' crimp.....same as all the others. If I could find some that was about 1/8" crimp it may work....still not scale. How big is the paper you found??
Paul - I have also used the Friskars paper crimper, see link. It is usually carried by almost all the craft stores. It creates a slightly oversize corrugation but good enough if you have need for a lot of it! The best results I've gotten so far was when I took pieces of aluminum foil and sprayed the dull side of one sheet with 3m adhesive and put the second piece on it with the dull side down. Makes a laminated sheet that's pretty stiff when done. Thanks for the heads up on the pre-crimped paper I'll have to give it a try. Russ
Guys, my experience has been like yours. The crimping tools are too large to be "scale" and other pre-crimped cardboard is also too large. This stuff at Michael's is quite small....you should check it out. And it is CHEAP compared to crimped METAL foil that is the correct scale size. You have to see it for yourself to judge if it will meet your specific needs.
Paul Goodness
Budget to the rescue.
That paper at the craft store is good. I have a couple of sheets here, but I also have my own version that I mimicked from a photo I saw. No biggy, that paper from the store works fine, you can crinkle the paper up like you are discarding it and then straighten it out if you want the effect I have here of old siding. I cut strips and pasted them to some card stock to get the look you see. Perhaps I may do a video for this type of thing.
This was only printed on plain paper with my personal printer and I colored it with chalks. Yes, that is with chalks as is almost everything I do. This was for the "A" sides on the Poor House Apple structure on my Spruce Coal & Timber Layout.
Since your thread title wasn't limiting on material, have you seen the assortment of corrugated styrene from JTT, the scenery division of Model Rectifier??
Their sku's...
97402 1:100 (typ. HO)
97403 1:48 (O)
97404 1:32 (G - std)
97405 1:24 (G - ng)
97406 1:16
All are $6.50 for two (2) sheets 7.5"x12"
Cuts well. Paints well. Corrugated both sides. Available at most LHS's that stock JTT products.
Still prefer paper?... Northeastern Scale Lumber makes strips of corrugated paper roofing in several sizes, the O scale size having sku 55053, 5 strips @ $9.72, avail. through Walthers/dealers. Maybe more pricey than Michaels' version, but better proportioned.
FWIW, always...
KD (aka, Lucas Gudinov
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AMC Dave,
Have you seen the corrugated steel sheets available from Clever Bros.?
P/N T73 Silver Corrugated Steel.
John in Lansing, Ill
Builders-in-Scale Has scale corrugated aluminum roofing or siding. 700 series for O-scale. You have to figure the widths of the sheets you want and then cut the piece sizes. To do the larger roofs I used (3) 6ft (scale pieces) note the picture. Each piece, (6ft) scale, is 7.5" long. Corrugated rib might be 4" including both the (2")high and (2")low. 4/48 1/12" .083" O-scale. Small.
Builders-in-Scale on my BTS Coal tipple.
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