July 13, 2011

  • Wednesday Night: Sunny and mostly clear, we reached 29C, but it was cooler for most of the day, yesterday was unbelievably muggy and 30C and Monday was mostly cloudy and cool at 26C, lovley! Sunday was very hot, we went in the pool but it wasn't pleasant as it often isn't this time of year, just a nicecity to stay sain.....

    I have been making 1/12th scale Spanish terracotta roof tiles for our now not so secrect project of a Costa Blanca street scene. We thought that the Spanish style would be more of a potential seller here in Spain rather than UK terraced streets.....



    So if you are going     to make a Spanish type scene or some houses, you have to have Spanish style roof tiles. You cannot buy these, so there is no other option than to make them. The concave terracotta clay tiles are put on the roof one row up and one row down, yet you barely see the "down" row benieth the others, but unless it's there the whole roof doesn't sit correctly. These tiles are a 100% replicas of the real tile.

    To make a section just 100mm x 80mm takes 36 tiles and each of these tile takes an average of 2 minutes each to make..... so basically it's an hours work. I made 300+ on Monday, I still need a load more tyet, but they are totally 100% scale, even in the way they are made.  I have to say they look amazing, I just need to make so many more........ There are 119 tiles in the first part of the roof in the picture above, these are simply sitting in place on each other as they would on a real roof here...... On the model roof they will be fitted to best suit and then glued as well as painted to appear aged..... (or maybe not) as the case may be!