A textured styrene sheet with clapboard detail at a pitch of 1.3 mm. The groove is deep enough for the shadow to stay readable after painting, which is not the case with the finest pitches.
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The base is white styrene one millimeter thick with an area of 15 x 30 cm. The horizontal grooves are 1.3 mm apart and run the whole length of the longer side.
With textured surfaces something other than the density of the detail decides the result: whether the groove survives painting. A sprayed coat of paint is about five hundredths of a millimeter thick, a brushed coat easily a tenth. A primer and three covering coats therefore take almost half a millimeter out of the depth of the groove. A pitch of around 1.3 mm belongs to the group where the cut is still pronounced enough to cast a shadow when finished; on sheets with a pitch under half a millimeter the surface smooths out after the third coat and all that is left is a flat rectangle.
Where the reduction itself comes from: 1.3 mm multiplied by eighty-seven gives one hundred and thirteen millimeters, that is, an entirely ordinary clapboard for railroad sizes. A multiple of forty-two works out at fifty-five millimeters, which is more of a narrow batten than cladding. From that it follows that this pitch belongs to small buildings, huts and station shelters, not to the foreground of a large scene.
The recommended painting procedure is the opposite of that for smooth surfaces: first a darker tone over the whole area, then a lightened coat thin enough to run off the edges without flooding the bottom of the groove. A dry brush over the finished surface then lifts the detail further.
The joint between two neighboring pieces is the most conspicuous place on a whole wall of a model. The surest solution is to run it exactly along the bottom of one groove and to cover it from above with a vertical strip of thin material, which on a real building corresponds to a cover batten. The other option is to shift the seams of the individual walls so that they fall at the corner of the building, where a corner trim will hide them. A sanded and filled joint looks good only until sharp light falls on the surface.
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