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No... we're not to late to make minor changes. I really can't change window locations unless I want to "brick one up" and simulate renovations. I took your advice and moved the outside stair to the other side of the building.

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Originally, the three doors were: Main entrance, Kitchen entrance and 2nd Floor apartments entrance. But moving the stair outside makes the 2nd floor entrance redundant. There is a cellar. I suppose the door could be a cellar entrance. I also have a Photo-etched pavement cellar elevator from Bar Mills that I bought years ago and haven't installed yet, and this building would a perfect place since there's obviously a basement. Where the stair is now is truly the backside of the building since the corner in which it will be placed has the building's face on the right side of the above image. With SketchUp, I was able to grab the entire staircase, rotate it 90° then flip it so it was reversed from its previous position, all without redrawing anything. Building stairs is a fun project and the Rusty Stumps product includes a fixture to position the stringers while gluing on the treads (if I can find it).

I bought another couple of airbrushes from eBay. They're importing Chinese airbrushes for significantly less $$ than my Badger. I love my Badger, but couldn't pass up the opportunity to get a couple more. I also bought a manifold to connect them all up at once, and I'm going to get more siphon bottles so they can all have paint ready to go without major cleanings. One of the two is a medium nozzle with siphon bottle, and the other is a fine line brush with a top feed cup. I never liked the Badger open cup since it's a bottom feed gun so the cup sits at a funny angle and I tend to spill it all the time.

But there was a wrinkle. Badger uses 5.0mm fine-thread hose fittings and all the others use 1/8", so today, I bought an adaptor for the Badger fitting and two more hoses with 1/8' fittings including one that has the female version of the 1/4" pipe fitting for the compressor. I forgot that with three airbrushes you need at least three hoses.  After our vacation, I'm going to buy a larger capacity compressor since mine doesn't have a reservoir and runs continuously when you're spraying. It's 43 years old and has served me well.

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