Got the negative terminal strip soldered to the power board. Just poked it through the copper tape bus and soldered it all. I turned the openings toward the inside so the positive and negative field leads would follow similar paths and be accessible from one direction.
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Up next was "hanging sheetrock" on the interior first floor walls. I am not doing this work on the other floors. They're basically out of side and I will have window shades on the upper windows.
I used the center stair well as the height measurement for all the wall paneling. I had to trim around the corner and base blocks. I used a combination of digital calipers, dividers, little combination square and eyeballing to determine where the window and door openings would fall. The material is nice cardboad left over from a couple sets of linens we bought from Bloomingdale's. Never through building materials away. I will paint those blocks to match the wall color.u
After cutting the three sides (four pieces) I brush painted them with that craft paint off-white (two coats). You can notice the difference to the un-painted cardboard below.
I wanted to trim the window holes and pre-stained some scale 1 X 3. I found a slick way to cut miters for the corners. I used some thinned Aleen's Tacky Glue so I could easily brush it on the card stock. After putting down one side I overlapped the adjacent piece and then with a new single-edged razor, just sliced through both pieces on a 45 degree angle. The result was perfect fitting miniature mitered corners.
It didn't take very long to do this for all the wall pieces.
I attempted to take a picture through one of the front windows to show the back wall. Still needs some more work, but you get the idea. Still need to add some window sills...
It could also use some baseboards… maybe I'll add those. I'm still not sure about what to do about that interior. Almost every other building in town (the ones that I've created from scratch) has a real 3D interior. And this model is replacing Loopie Louie's Appliance Emporium which has a whole floor full of 3D printed appliances. I will put that somewhere else in town. It's not the shelves that's the problem. It's the thousands of items on those shelves.
