One of my old time train buddies Pick Perry of Hurtsbourough Alabama built the back side of a huge O scale sawmill on an On30 . He had found rolls of corrugated paper at a party store. It was sold to be material for streamers or such, but the corrugations looked teal good in O scale. and he was able to do the back side of this huge mill and the roofing for the loading sheds with about six dollars in materiel (excluding paint). the corrugated paper soaked up a lot of silver spray paint, but it looked really good , and was dirt cheap. If I ever get around to building an O scale building with corrugated metal I will hunt around to see if I can come up with some of that stuff.
HI Bill,
Yes, I had read about the corrugated party streamer rolls in the past. So far I have never seen these probably because I am not in too many party stores at my age now.
Also there is some kind of crimping device that you can use cut strips from soda cans and crimp the metal to look and feel just like corrugated metal. This technique is very useful for large scale outdoors where party streamers and pressed aluminum foil would probably fall apart.
Sorry I keep missing train club. We head to Haiti this Friday and we are doing a lot of last minute running around to get ready. We will be gone until about 3-18-10.
Peace, Dr Tom