A new scratch built house, made with plastic parts

Here are some pics of a new scratch built house I have working on, it is created out of evergreen plastic sheets and strips.
I should have taken a picture of the house laid out before being glued together but I didn't.

Here is the corner molding, it is two strips one wider than the other by the amount of their width so they come out to be the same size from the corner.

Here is the start of the molding to go up against the roof.

The house painted, it needs some touch up from handling it fitting the molding on, next time I will wait until all the pieces are cut and temp fitted before painting so I wont have to touch it up.

Some pictures with the molding laying in place but not glued down yet.

The start of the window frames.

Here is the link for the plans of the house I am making below, the owner was very kind to post the plans to his house he made, I think his looks awesome.
Section House

A Cricut building

I was working on my house that I was just winging it on and was trying to score roof tiles and siding lines thinking it is a pain in the a** when I had the thought "I sure wish I had a laser cutter" but alas I do not have $2000+ just burning a hole in my pocket (get this a 3d printer $400 a laser cutter $2000+ wtf is up with that? I don't need a 40 watt laser to cut through metal I am cutting 1/32" thick bass wood) so I was thinking again and remembered that I bought my wife a Cricut machine years ago that collects dust, hmmmmm.
I drug it out of mothballs and tried setting it on its most shallow setting and scored a bunch of lines, then set the knife for a deeper cut and then had it cut the sides of the house, I had to set it for multiple cuts but it worked like a dream. Well for that, tiny details turned out badly, more on that in a bit.
As you can see the fine detail cuts did not work so well, the blade pivots when it cuts so that it is always facing the right direction when cutting but that means rounded not so nice cuts, like in the upper right those are supposed to be stair step parts, not so much...

Here is the sides scored and cut out, for this it was amazing, I was not worried about the windows having rounded corners as there will be a window frame around it.

Here are the pictures of it glued together, sorry about the pics being a bit blurry.

I of course could get the fine detail cuts with a laser cutter but......

On the net they have for sale a 2 watt laser diode, the size of it would be about the size of what is in a laser pointer but quite a bit more powerful, it is $70.

There is a video of it cutting through a toothpick, a toothpick is harder and thicker than the material that I am using.... so since the cutting blades fit inside an aluminum holder that is about an inch thick, my thoughts are, buy another holder for $15 drill it out enough for the diode and a lens and I might just get my laser cutter and it would not alter the Cricut at all as it would just be modifying the replacable holder and not actually altering the machine.

More on that dream and the house later.

Let the building begin....

 Gotta love the pun.
Mrs. Money Bags isn't here at the time of this posting so the only thing I could find for scale was a nickel, so I guess that is the only nickel to my name.... ;-)
 I couldn't resist, I had to start doing something model wise or I would have gone nuts.
 So this is my first scratch built house, I have the dimensions mostly right, I do not have any plans so I am winging it for now.
 I am going to do up some plans and print them out but this morning I just had to jump in and start.
normally the windows and doors are cut out before you put it together but this bass wood is already so fragile (not as bad as balsa) that I think it will hold up better to cut them out after it is built, either with an hobby knife or a rotary tool, I will experiment and find the best way.
 With all the sanding I did I so need a mini belt/disk sander.
 Oh and a laser cutting printer would be nice too. hint, hint Mrs. Clause.... ;-)
 Let me know what you think so far...

some more inclines and another tree attempt

Added some more inclines, the one in the front is a 2% grade so it climbs 1" in 48" and the one behind it is a 4% grade so it climbs 2" in 48" travel.
You can see on the desk a power box and a knob, I made a box with a power outlet and a light dimmer so I can control the temperature of the wire cutter, it was so hot that the wire could not handle it and would stretch and break under mild pressure, cooling it off by limiting the power made for slower cuts but saves a lot on broken wire and does not smoke as bad now as I am now just melting and not burning the foam.

Here is a tree I tried, it is the second attempt, the first attempt at trees never got posted.
This one with the flash, the rest without.