I built this model house in my teens; it must be about 30 years old now. It was my hamfisted attempt at the Pendon method, ie scribing detail into card and then painting it in with watercolours. It has had a few additional layers of paint in the intervening years, but not much in the way of new or better details.

While it's served well on various layouts in the intervening years, the move to a more prominent position on the new module prompted me to take a look at what could be done to improve matters, without getting too far from the original model.

Number one area for immediate improvement was the roof, with its unconvincingly large paper tiles. Tonight I ripped the old roof off and then set about replacing it with Wills plastic sheets. I also added chimney pots - about time, really.

There's a lot more that could be done, but it's a start.