Most of this day was spent painting and repainting. I haven't posted many pictures of that because of color fidelity on different monitors, but am now declaring victory on this. The current color has to be good enough, despite all my frustrations with it. On the blue lid is House 3 with the trimmed back wall (minus the sunroom) from House 1 sitting on top for comparison. On the red lid is the back wall from the pilot house, which is probably a better color match for the real house. It's distinctly more beige and less pink than the color is coming out here; the only question I have is whether the current color of the pilot house is a feature of aging. It's entirely possible it started out the color of my efforts here, and faded over time. Maybe. Either way, it's going to have to do; it's time to move on. Next up: applying the windows, doors, frames, etc. on these two houses. I'm doing that both to keep the houses relatively in sync with each other and because the "answer" hasn't dropped out of the sky yet on the best approach to the lighting and bay window assemblies.
Because I was so fretted about having forgotten the proper assembly order for the small bay on Roof 1, I went ahead and assembled its counterpart for House 2. Forgetting, of course, to put the window frame, glass and trim in before gluing the wings on the bay. Sigh. I managed to get them installed after the gluing without too much difficulty and will definitely make a note for the next one that the trimming happens before gluing on the wings, which happens before installing the entire assembly into the roof.
Finally, Roof 2 is all shingled! So, one foot in front the other, progress is becoming visible. Yay!
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