Slow News Day

We had other stuff to get done today that reduced the time I could spend on the project, and then, what work I did was more back-tracking and hardly any forward progress. The pictures of the backtracking--putting the fantastic leaded glass windows in all three houses--didn't turn out, so nothing to see there. It's hard to see them when they're not backlighted. Houses 2 and 3 were easy, of course, since they're not fully assembled. All that was involved there was to peel the already-attached windows off, move the curtains and glue them back on in the right place.

House 1, which has three of four sides firmly attached to both the first and second floor was a bit more of a challenge. I ended up prying the really fragile window frames out of the existing windows, pulling off the curtains, gluing the new windows to the frames, cutting them just to fit, then gluing the frames, windows and curtains back into the window void. I'm still not sure how it's going to look and will reserve judgment until the glue is dry and totally cleaned up tomorrow. Time will tell.

Otherwise, I sorted furniture that has to go in as Houses 2 and 3 are assembled, and put a tiny bit more in the second floor of House 1, preparatory to getting the lights placed and gluing on the roof plane. I'm still debating the order of roof plane and fourth wall, since the fourth wall must fit between notches in the roof plane. In theory, the fourth wall should go on first, but there's stuff (mostly plants) that goes in it that I don't have yet, so it's a bit of a conundrum. Onto assembling at least a wall or two of Houses 2 and 3 tomorrow, I hope.