Oh, sorry.  Beautiful work, by the way.  I love old barns!   I'll be very
interested to see this when it's done.  Hopefully, your projects don't take
several months like mine seem to...

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Jeremy
www.beantoad.com


"Jeremy M. Praay" <jer### [at] questsoftwarecom> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to do shingles for my old school (www.beantoad.com/wips.htm),
but
> I've had limited success, and I'm currently re-thinking the entire way
that
> I'm going about doing them.
>
> If you come up with something for cedar shingles, I hope you'll share...
> :-)
>
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> Jeremy
> www.beantoad.com
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> "Dave Matthews" <dma### [at] nospamnet> wrote in message
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> > At the county library, I found building plans for a c. 1917 dairy barn.
> >   The details of the framing are pretty good, but the rest is lacking
> > (in the plans), so I'm going to have to do some research in the area.
> > Luckily, we have hundreds of barns around here.
> >
> > To get all of the boards different, I had to use #macros for the
> > repeated elements, and fetch the boards from random locations out in
> > "wood space," rather than to use objects.  Is this the usual method, or
> > is there a better one?
> >
> > Also, when I'm ready for it, does anyone have tips on shingles?  (The
> > usual variety here at the time were cedar shakes, which are highly
> > variable in length and width, so any kind of a regular pattern looks a
> > bit artificial.)
> >
> > Dave Matthews
> >
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