I revised the materials list and ordered enough shingles to complete all three houses. I still need to make a final decision about how to assemble the roof. The pieces for the first model are resting here on the pilot house roof; it's put together with Blenderm surgical tape, as recommended by our daughter's wonderful architecture student friend. The fit is good, but not great, so I am considering using the tape as the gluing jig, as it were, and then gluing as well. Of course, it may just be that I'm not great with the tape (which is very, very sticky) and I'll improve. I'm going to experiment some more with the pilot house before I commit for the final assembly After it's glued or taped in final form, I'll put the ridge caps on to see how the roof will look.
Progress report: The first roof is all-but-done, and another 20 minutes will probably finish the shingling on the one remaining roof plane. (There's one plane that is also done that wouldn't sit nicely, but it's complete as well.) I decided not to try to fit the shingles around the small gable on the front of the house, but to glue it on top of the shingles—it just seemed like too much fussing around to try to shingle around the footprint of that gable. Hope that was a good choice. We'll find out.
I repaired one of the places where reversing the roof plane created a hole and have one more gap to figure out how to repair as seamlessly as possible. My story, and I'm sticking to it, is that 60-year old roofs on 100+ year old houses have problems, so of course there are messy bits. Truth be told, I'm also hoping that once I weather the roof a bit, the repaired areas won't show, or at least not quite so much.
Since the shingling process is about how I remembered it (relatively tedious), I'll keep interspersing shingling whenever something mindless is required or I hit a problem. I hadn't intended to finish this entire roof in one go like this, but when I realized there was a supply-on-hand deficit, it needed be finished to make sure I ordered enough to complete all three houses. The diamond shape shingle takes about 1.5 times more shingles to cover than the rectangular shingles, assuming that my original calculations were correct (not a sure thing). Either way, sufficient shingles to finish are on the way, and after the roof-repair is complete, I will be able to get back to the beveling.
All in all, a good day's progress at a reasonable pace, interspersed with some work that needed to be done (vacation status notwithstanding, sigh), some reading, some exercise and some lovely gazing into space.
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