As a Christmas present my wife gave a the Scale Structures Limited model, Dorothy’s House.  This is a cardstock and cast metal craftsman model of a brick house with all of the fancy “gingerbread” decorations.

Upon first opening the box it was slightly intimidating to see the sheer amount of parts, which were separated into different bags.

I read the instructions completely and then dove into the kit.  The first step was to indentify the walls and floors and cut them from the rest of the cardstock parts.  I then used 3M contact cement to glue the “wallpaper” onto the inside of the walls:

In the picture you can see the large amount of parts in their respective bags.  Also you can see how I turned the pieces right side up so that I could trim the wallpaper to fit the panels.

Once I had put the wallpaper on all of the walls I was able to start construction.  I used the the magnetic jig from Micro-Mark to assist in building the walls. By using waxpaper in the jig I was able to easily remove the model once the glue had dried.  Per the suggestions in the manual I did not glue the back wall (the large one) in place as I want to be able to remove it to add furniture and people at a later date.

For glueing the walls to the floor panels and each other I used Elmer’s Wood Glue.  The 3M blue painters tape was very helpful in holding the various wall panels together while drying.

In the next post I will show how I completed the remaining wall panels and installed the floors.