Just finished the bike shop for Nick Plate. At his request, I modified the sign to give it a different business name and I printed some new signs and posters.

http://miniaturearchitect.blogspot.com/2014/11/finishing-o-scale-bike-shop.html

That blog post includes some 3D pictures, if you're into that sort of thing.

The facade came out especially nice. I cut individual clapboards. It got tricky when I reached the clapboards with the business name on them... I had to paint the edges with dark grey and neutral gray to correspond where the letters were.

http://miniaturearchitect.blogspot.com/2014/11/o-scale-bike-shop-facade-finished.html

A trick picked up from the military modelers is to print the sigmage on cogarette paper then they would conform to that neat siding work

That's just what I did for several of them. Two were printed on glossy photo paper because I wanted them to look like porcelain signs (I dulled them down a little with matte fixative.) The others were printed on cigarette paper.

Very nice build, Dan; I must take some time to read your blog. I, too, am doing some models for "Nick Plate".

Thom, the 3D photos were just a whim. I have one of those tripods with flexible legs; I adjusted it so I was close to the table and took a picture, slid the whole thing an inch or so over and took a second picture. I think I'm going to document all my builds like this from now on.

Hope the have the small forge done for Nick soon. Just got pressed into service to make a stable for a Christmas program, so am on hold for a while. The forge needed to be shortened so the dormer was also shortened. How do you intend to ship yours? Thinking a cardboard box within a box, but want to keep the cost down. Won't fit into one of those standard PO shipping boxes.

I had some 1/2 inch foamcore around, so I made a box that I hope will be uncrushable. It was either that or box-in-a-box, and our apartment complex's recycling bin is too rained on this time of year for me to salvage two boxes.

I recently shipped 3 builds in one corrugated carton filled with "peanuts" to Nick Plate. All arrived in good shape via Parcel Post Priority Mail.

Small forge done except for the duct work...that seems really fragile, have to think about it.