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Tonight I started the next build, Downtown Deco Palace Hotel / Card Room. Nice size building to place just about anywhere on the layout. I sanded all the edges that needed to be glued and the bottom to keep everything nice and square. I also add corner bracing to help strengthen the corner joints. I use 5 min epoxy when I glue up hydrocal kits. I learned the hard way on my very first kit some years ago and was told I could use white glue or CA glue. I attempted to use CA glue. I had glued three walls together  and went to move what I had only to have glue let go and the front wall do a face plant onto my 1/4" sheet of plate glass and break into about 5 or 6 pieces. From then on I only use 5 min. epoxy. Anyway, here is what I have so far. The one side wall had a slight bow to it, so I will have to put a drain pipe or some ivy over that corner to hide the seam.

 

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HI Joe, Sorry I didn't see this sooner. You can do either. If I am only going to light select windows I leave them in and paint that plaster black before installing windows and glazing.

 

Here are some updated photos. I painted some last night on this build. I still need to paint the lower front facade. I'm going to do a gloss black which I think these were supposed to represent those black stone or tile they used to put on buildings.

 

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