Freight Car Siding (0,50 x 0,95)

The thin variant of the middle spacing

The scribing is identical to the millimeter sheet of the same pattern; only the carrier sheet differs, being half as thick here. Five tenths of a millimeter is the value at which the material can still be bent easily around curved shapes without having to be warmed, and yet keeps enough stiffness for vertical walls glued to a frame. A spacing of just under a millimeter creates a dense but distinct board pattern.

When an extra joint is needed, or one has to disappear

The two opposite operations most often carried out on textured sheets share the same tools. An unwanted joint between two glued sheets is filled with liquid putty applied only into the gap, not across the surroundings. Once dry, the excess is taken off with the point of a scalpel held flat, and only the remainder is polished with a fine abrasive, because ordinary sanding would clog the neighboring lines. A missing stretch of scribing is then restored with a scriber run along a ruler resting against the nearest whole line, so that the spacing matches. The opposite case, the need for a new joint, is handled with the same scriber; the stroke is simply repeated shallowly several times until the bottom matches the surrounding grooves.

Where you will use the sheet

A thin sheet suits anywhere a curved surface has to be wrapped or cladding set into a finished part without creating a step. Typically that means the sides of tank wagons with wooden boarding, the inner lining of cabinets, small doors and lean-tos built onto an already finished model.