4th Dragoon - roof completed
Today has been rather foul from the weather point of view so I have been able to catch up with the model of the 4th French Dragoon as well as the scratch built cafe in which he is seated.
The tiles, bought in Spain recently, proved to be too difficult to use to build a ‘real’ Spanish tiled roof”.
Ideally there should have been rows of upside down tiles on top of which the ‘right way up’ tiles should have rested. But a number of dry runs ended up with a mess.
The problem was solved by making a base of modelling clay to represent the forms of inverted roof tiles and then mounting the top layer of tiles on top of that.
The result worked and the hand made tiles looked irregular and very much like the real thing.
