Well, doesn't really matter I guess as it certainly won't be trading on my railway but will be a nice building anyway and am using some new (to me !) techniques here.

I must admit that measuring out and drawing are not my favorite things so I didn't do any! i just straightened up the photo I was using as a reference in Photoshop, scaled it to the right size and printed it off on paper. I then Pritt stickered it onto the foam board and just cut around the outline. Then did the same thing for the brick in fill.

I soon had this;

Outside walls are some Redutex I bought a while ago and hadn't got around to using. Found it a bit difficult too cut to the complex brick pattern but otherwise good.

Getting a bit carried away with this PhotoShop design thing I then drew up the facia boards and windows for the shop front and printed them out on the thickest card I could get through my printed. I then cut around the lines and layered it up with tacky PVA. A cameo cutter would have been very useful her and may well make an appearance at some stage. For the windows, I stuck Evergreen strip onto the card with MEK and built up a lovely profile that you probably won't be able to see at all.

A floor was then laid with coffee stirrers and the balsa stripper came out again to make the laths out of thin balsa dyed with a smelly mix of Colron wood stain.

Oh yes, I had already made some stairs up to the yet to be constructed first floor. Am being pretty good here in that I am sorting the ground floor out before making the upper floor which will get in the way and I have left the end wall loose for now to allow better access. Once all the laths were in it was time for plaster in the form of my best printer paper soaked and then the top surface being rubbed off with fingers to get a rough finish. It was the stuck onto the walls and further distressed.

Very please with the look of it so far and pretty quick progress as well which is useful!