Real Good Toys Victorian Painted Lady Instructions Manual page 33

Instructions for kit #JM-4600
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66. Shingle the Roof: Glue: Use a thick solvent-based
(not "water claean-up"!) panel adhesive such as Liquid Nails
available in caulking gun tubes at building supply stores. Trim
just a little of the end of the tube for a tiny hole, giving a thin
bead of glue. Always use good ventilation with solvent based
adhesives.
Extend the shingle guidelines across the Eaves and across the
Tower Back Roof.
A. Glue a "starter row" or
along the bottom edge of the Roof, or "Flash" the edge with
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strip of copper (#SC from Real Good Toys is available
a 1
2
through your dealer) to prepare the bottom edge of the Roof for
the first row of shingles
B. Apply a thin line of adhesive just below the lowest guideline
all the way across one roof. Press the top edge of a Shingle into
the line of glue, squeezing out the excess Hold the first Shingle
and press another Shingle into the adhesive, tight to the first.
Hold the next Shingle and press in another... etc. all the way
across the roof, cutting the last Shingle to fit
Continue up the roof one row at a time. Start the next row
with a half Shingle so that the seam between Shingles is stag-
gered back and forth as you go up the roof. Line up the top edge
of each row (except the starters) with the guidelines.
Cut the top row of Shingles so that each row will have the
same reveal. Finish the top edge with a "Boston Lap": pairs of
Shingles laid horizontally. Start at the ends of the peak, and, with
each pair overlapping the previous pair, work to the middle.
C. Cut angled shingles for the corners of the Tower Roof. When
you glue a pair of shingles to the Tower Roof's corner, the edge
is straight up-and-down the roof. Start with the angle cutting
guide and fine-tune your shingles; cut 50 pairs. For a course
of shingles on the Tower Roofs, glue the Corner pair on first
on both edges, and fill in the shingles between them, splitting a
shingle for the narrow last space.
Corner Shingle
Cut with a saw to get two
Corner Shingles from one flat
Shingle (cutting with scissors
splits one shingle of the pair)
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3 long Shingles square-edge down
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Corner Shingles
Shingles (8) page 33
Shingle Guideline
Line of Adhesive
Copper Flashing or
"Starter Course"
Left Top Eave
Gable Roofs
Split a shingle
to go here
Right Eav
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