Progress is being made but not much to show. Been cutting strips for siding and splitting shingles. Having issues getting the building front printed. Two failed prints so far.
Successful print on the center. Now printing the left side. Hopefully today and tomorrow I can get the main structure all assembled.
Left side successful now the right side.
Aside from that I have the side wall windows in. Hoping by tomorrow I will be able to assemble the building.
Successful prints. Gluing them up now. Should be able to have enough progress for some pictures soon.
Pictures? In my lifetime, please 
Really having a difficult time getting rolling on this. I am making slow progress. I will try and get at least some sort of picture tonight.
Needed a fire hydrant. Thanks to Craig for identifying it as a dual port hydrant. So I designed a quick down and dirty generic two port hydrant to print.
that is looking really good. about time we see some pictures! Need an old camera like mine that takes blurry pictures!
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That looks great, Devon. I’m glad you re-designed the front to resemble the photo your wife found. You need a lot more shingles 
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Me too. Looks much better. I have the base made and started gluing it all up. I will need more shingles and way more lap siding strips. But I do finally feel like I am gaining some ground
Feeling better about my progress. Thanks to Bob for suggesting pvc cement to attach styrene to pvc. It bonded well enough to attach the base to the structure.
That sure looks good, Devon! Nice work!
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I need to get the roof on then the tedium begins.
It’s nice to just relax…
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The re-designed door front print really came out great. This will end up being a fine looking building.
You are building a sure winner there, hope you keep it up and have a whole town done soon! Look forward to pictures and videos of a train street running through Burke!
So the tedium begins. I cant say that cutting and gluing strips of styrene is fun. But I donlike the look. And while the imperfections might bother some. . . I actually think my sloppiness looks good. More real world and less manufactured.
Looks good. Just ages the building.
I’ve been watching Adam Savage on Tested on YouTube lately and I’m always looking for his hints and tricks as a former film industry model maker. When he talks about weathering things, he mentions thing like this. It used to drive me crazy to make sure things were perfect at each level for something like this, but as I watched and listened to him discuss prop making and weathering, all this imperfect build “age” and a story into the model.
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