Thanks for all the amusing comments on the last post and am glad so many people enjoyed my Christmas dinner! Now, back to more ordinary stuff (beans on toast!), or my second building which has now become my BIG BUILDING!. I guess it was the same size when I started it but with the addition of end walls and the garden it has got an awful lot chunkier and pretty impressive really.

Here is one of the balcony of which I am really pleased. I just drew out an idea on a piece of card, stuck some double sided tape on and then placed the bits on top and soldered it all up. The hardest part was making the rings which I parted off from a piece of tube on the lathe.

And one of the inside. I have since sprayed much of this black - see I do learn from experience! Another useful result from my cellar tidying of the other week is that I now have about six wood dyes I didn't know I had so have made some lovely concoctions for the various bits of internal woodwork (sorry no pic yet)

And here is one with a DVD just to show the true scale of the thing.

Have just been pondering the fencing tp go on the low brick wall at the front. My natural instinct is to make it , and probably as complicated as the original but on costing it up it would be twice as much as a pack of Scalelink etched fencing. I did consider other alternative materials but just don't think they will be as sturdy as brass.

My other dilemma is what to do about the window frames. The pictures show only very little surviving (which would be very easy to reproduce), but would it make the finished model look - well , unfinished?