Roof finished at last, attic trim, kitchen bay trim, drawers

 Shingling is done

The shingling is done, praise the sun.  Was really fed up with it by the end.  I finished off the ridgeline with the plastic trim I bought from Hobbycraft, cutting pieces to butt together unobtrusively to achieve the required length.  I had previously sprayed the plastic with matt white primer.  I applied another row or two of shingles to meet at a neat line along the trim and decided to stop there.  In theory there is room to add another partial row of shingles at the very top but that would not have made a neat angle with the trim and would have looked untidy, so I left it.  After cleaning up the various glue threads from the solvent glue, I gave the roofs a spray of protective laquer (masking off the rest of the house obviously), then finally I could glue on the tower roof. I signed my name and the date on the underside of the tower roof for future posterity, if anyone ever does renovations on the house in the future.  I also tidied up where the chimney meets the shingles.

Attic interior trim and beams

With the shingling finally done, I had some renewed energy to get on with a lot of other jobs.  You may notice in the pictures that I have added some ceiling beams to the big attic space, modelling these on online photos of tall rooms with beams.  I kept it simple so that there wouldn't be too many angles to cut.  I've also finished off the internal apex in both gables with trim, and applied trim to the various 'raw edges' where two planes are meeting inside the attic. So the attic interior is almost finished apart from applying the internal tower windows.  I've been holding off on installing the window 'glass' to avoid damage with all the exterior work.  Still to do also is the front gable trim to hide all the raw edges.

Kitchen bay trim

Returning to the lefthand, or rear bay window, I cut out a replacement for the missing central window hood, and painted and installed that.  I also filled and painted up the kit brackets that 'support' the bay and installed those.  And finally, I painted the top of the bay black and added a little metal filigree trim from my scraps box.

Drawers

I knew from reading other build blogs that everyone has trouble getting the under-house storage drawers to fit, so I did a dry fit with masking tape to test them.  The centre one fit fine.  The 'right hand drawer' as labelled in the parts illustration was too big for the right hand opening, but fit fine into the left hand opening.  The remaining 'left hand drawer' was too big for any aperture.  So I cut down the left hand drawer base and back pieces by about 3/8th of an inch to make it fit into the right hand opening, recutting the slots so that the sides will still fit.  I glued the three carcasses together and let them dry.

The drawer fronts need to fit fairly exactly so that the left front is covering over the left wall of the house, and the right front is almost meeting the porch extension, with equidistant gaps between both of them and the centre drawer.  I could glue the centre front on no problem, but because I had swapped the left and right drawers, I had to cut the slots in the fronts longer so that the original fronts could be adjusted to fit into the correct position.  I think I've got it right.  We'll see when the glue dries.

Meanwhile I punched out all the trellis pieces that go on the fronts of the drawers.  This was an awful job, with the splintery plywood shredding, splintering, and outright breaking even though I was pushing the cut-outs from the back and using a knife to help.  I've had to make several repairs with wood glue.  All the openings are rough and horrible, it is going to be a long job to fill them and try to smooth them out. Each drawer has two trellis pieces, with opposite orientation, so that you get a trellis effect when they are stacked (although very thick).  Because it's the same job, I also punched the trellis pieces for the porch base so that I can finish them all together.