4. Kaiserhof Restaurant With Neighbour House

This building is another scratchbuilt plastic structure.The front wall and back wall were put together of several old facade parts from Faller; several different facede parts were composed to a facade. The gable walls were cut out from plastic sheets, they are windowless

There were already window frames fitted, the street facade had originally lattice windows. However, I took a cutter and removed all mullions and transoms. It now shows a building which has been "modernized" with new windows probably somewhere in the 1960ies when such windows were extremly popular. Back then they had, at least, still wooden frames; since the early 1990ies, windows with plastic frames have benn becoming extremly popular in Central Europe. Luckily the original lattice windows have at least survived on the rear. 

Removing the mullions and ransoms, I had to work very carefully, because the material had become a little bit inflexible an unelastic over the decades. New polysterol parts, where the plasticers are still in place, are more elastic and flexible.

Further the street-side facade was fitted with shutters which were painted in green, just like the doors on this side of the house. Again, PLAKA-colours were used. 

The bottom of the chimney-roof got a sheet metal cladding, for which I took aluminium folil. Such sheet metal claddings are installed to prevent the infiltration of water.

Finally,the building was letterd as the "Kaiserhof" restaurant. 

The neighbouring building was scratchbuilt with to remaining facade parts, while the gable walls were made of cardboard and plastered with withener.

But you're not finished yet. Now, stick the window on a piece of grey cardboard. Apply the glue only on the frame, not on the window pane! After the glue has dried, take a pair of scissors and cut it out!  This piece is stucked on the below side of the window.  During all these steps, you have to work very carefully to avaoid ugly blots of adhesive. Finally, you can stick the window on the roof with a drop of adhesive.

Now, the second method. You cut out a piece of milky transparent foil in the frame's overall dimensions, which you stick on the bottom side of the frame. Also here, you have to work with care to avoid blots of adhesive. If necessary, smooth the edgeds with a file. When all these works are done, you can fix the skylight on the roof. But use the adhesive sparingly - otherwise, you will get ugly blots which will glimmer through the transparant plastic foil.