Newsletter-July 9, 2016

Updating a familiar product!

Originally, I had planned on using the Builder's in Scale tarpaper, but that would only increased costs into the production of the kit. And so I did what I promised myself that I would not do and that was I shoved a square peg into a round hole and all I ended up with was a square peg with rounded edges or in other words, I struggles to develop a tarpaper that I would be happy with both in terms of cost and looks.

Enter our two Tarpaper styles: Pitched and/or Rolled available in three colors (for now)-Red Oxide; Worn Gray; & Durty Black. The difference between Pitched and Rolled is that although both styles are approximately three (3) scale feet wide; the Pitched Tarpaper is laid our in 10-12 scale foot lengths and more of a patchwork of repair over time, hence the ragged tarred seams and the shading variation of the different sections. As for the Rolled Tarpaper style, since tarpaper typically comes in 50 foot rolls there are only tarred seams where the three-foot widths come together. To read the rest of the story CLICK HERE or the above image!