Having built the low relief house fronts, doing the back seems like a logical next step. These were bought intending to make a whole house, but in all the time they've been lying around I'd never noticed one was stone and one was brick. Ah well. I'm not sure how these will fit on the layout yet, especially as I can't get any more to form a streetlet. Anyhow, on with the build. I photoed this one as it has a lot of bits, and I'll be modifying it a bit for lighting purposes.

So, step 1 : Cut away the stuff at the top leaving the back wall back wall, inner roof and gable strengtheners. Blue arrows point to the cut lines. Having a bit of a read of the notes on these printed sheets is good, as they reinforce the instruction sheets.

Then turn it over and fold back the 'windows' and gable reinforcement, add the top and bottom spacers from pile you created earlier above and below the window holes (lined up by the folded back tabs). No rocket science here. To the tabs folded back from the windows at the card bis above and below attach the glazing - the right way round helps. This steps the frames back to add depth. More card strips left and right on top of the glazing proceeds fitting the curtains, in a choice of colours no less.

Above : Pre Curtains

Then the 'main' house is folded and fixed to the base card. This fitted well into the recesses in the base such that fitting it also squared it up.

Next add the inner floors. These just fold up and go straight in. If you are fitting lighting you need to make card walls to contain the light to only the room you are going to illuminate.

On go the roof, chimneys (I'll ad the pots at the end) and the attic windows. 'Double length' pot bases are supplied if you were indeed putting fronts and backs together.

To the extensions. This is pretty much a repeat of assembling the backs. Two of the remaining window glazes are not sash type windows like the rest, so I concluded (nothing in the instructions) that these are bathroom windows and should go at the upper back of the extentions. To this end I fitted them to the sides. Ho hum. There were no short lintels or window sills for the small window by the door, for the second one I cut down the 'standard' ones, but didn't think of it for the first.

This all folds up into this.

The ground and first floors now go in - it all fitted just fine, but it's probably best to do this before the folding up glue has gone off just in case. Some clothes pegs and a large rubber band courtesy of the Post Office held it all until sufficiently dry (about 15 mins with Evostick). I also added a couple of walls for lighting purposes. Talking of which, it's impossible to get wires to the upper rooms here without external cabling, so I've ordered a halt until the lights arrive (tomorrow they say!) so I can fit them nicely and run the cables inside.

And a trial fit reveals all is good. It's really important to get everything at the interface of extension to house square and flush, or the roof will have huge gaps.

So watch this space for the final concluding episode

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