Hi guys
A while back, somebody had a quite smart method for making coruggated metal. It was serious of round beams where thin sheets could be pressed into the shape and realistic corrugated metal sheets were made.
Anybody remember where this is, or have any other good ideas .. apart from using the wafer in cardboard boxes!
Cheers!

Ola Frank

I think you can make a jig out of evergreen although thinking of it that may not be the easiest of constructions to make.... as all the bends in the corrugated sheet have to be round.
Not really a trick to make corrugated sheetmetal I have found a tool years ago to make this stuff by the meter. I once had a drawing of it but I think I stored it on the Armorama MSN page which I think is now gone... as I can't find it. I will shoot pics of it tomorrow if you are interested.

Basically the thing is like this: You have 2 cogs in a holder. The cogs are like 10 to 15 cm wide (they are available in different sizes.). Put in the paper, cardboard, sheetmetal, etc and turn the wheel. The cogs turn towards each other as cogs usually do and they pull the paper, cardboard, sheetmetal etc. through realeasing a really neat corrugated sheetmetal which can then be painted and used.

It is really cheap and it can be found in stores where you can buy stuff to make your own postcards, birthdaycards, other papercreations and such (probably arts and crafts shops will have it too.)

At the moment I can not provide you with pics of the tool I can only show you the results of what was made with it.



With structured cardboard I created the Asbestos sheets which were used very often for these kind of sheds on junkyards. sadly the roof lost a bit of its shape when I pressed on it to glue it to the structure of the shed. I hope you can see the wavey shape of the plates.

Tomorrow I will have some pictures of this nifty little tool.

With friendly greetz

Robert Blokker

Hi if you go to WW2 Model Maker web site and click on the articles section , then down to Ian's tips you will find it under No 9 . I have been using this method for years cheers ian sadler author of it

Thanks very much Robert and Ian. Much appreciated.
Robert, would love to see this tool ... I half remember it from when you made the shed above.
Ian, thats pretty close to the method I seen and was thinking of.
Cheers guys.