Billings Bakery taking form

Been working a little on the bakery.  The blip shows the first three structures, eventually to be glued together.  The tar paper roof on the right building has not been done as yet as there are two small structures to go on top.  The building on the left was to have kit supplied wood shingles. Unfortunately after I painted them , they just did not look right.  Fortunately in by scrap box I found the remainder of N scale shingles from a company (now out of existence) called Paper Creek.  They print the shingles in rows on paper, and laser cut each shingle on the row.  Once applied as a strip and overlapped about half, they look very realistic to my eye.  And - lucky me but there was just enough to finish the roof.

The extra blip shows something new to me in these Bar Mills N scale kits.  The three parts go together.  The brown square is the roof surface.  To that underneath is glued the rafters that will stick out over the wall when done. The wall where they go has very small cuts for each roof rafter to settle in.  Unfortunately my painting has expanded the wood every so little - just so that the rafters don't fit in the slots.  A few swips with the razor saw on the slots and we are good to go. I do have some repair where the wood split - but no one will ever see it.  A minute detail - the rafters are about 1/64" square!  Super breakable.

Onward..