The Search for Suitable Materials

While experimenting with different materials for modeling the roof, I stumbled upon plaster cloth wrap. This material is useful in modeling because it can be shaped into any form you can mold, it dries in twenty minutes or fewer, and it can be cut after drying.

The most interesting quality of this material is its semi-translucency. The plaster dries on the cloth in a very random pattern, giving light pattern a very "tree canopy-like" quality. This effect is exactly what I am looking for in my design for the roof.