Building supplies. Mermaid roof tiles. 14 in a pack. 1/48th scale

1/48th hexagonal roof shingles.

Laser cut with very thin cardboard. Colour may vary slightly. Please be careful when painting so that they do not get too wet. This will curl the tile.

Size: 17.5 cm long, 14 strips in a pack.

Roof tiles are designed mainly to keep out rain, and are traditionally made from locally available materials such as terracotta or slate. Modern materials such as concrete and plastic are also used and some clay tiles have a waterproof glaze. Roof tiles are ‘hung’ from the framework of a roof by fixing them with nails.

Roof tiles are ‘hung’ from the framework of a roof by fixing them with nails. The tiles are usually hung in parallel rows, with each row overlapping the row below it to exclude rainwater and to cover the nails that hold the row below. There are also roof tiles for special positions, particularly where the planes of the several pitches meet. They include ridge, hip and valley tiles. These can either be bedded and pointed in cement mortar or mechanically fixed.

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