So, I glued the gables on. Next step is supposed to be the porch but since I haven't painted yet, that should come first. I decided to use siding on this house so obviously that has to go on before I paint. Of course, as I thought this through I realized I should have done the siding before adding the roof (or at least the gables) to make it easier to fit the siding on the triangular parts of the walls. Oops.It'll be a little harder to get the siding to fit well in the gable with the roof already in place, but I'll manage.First, I used wood filler to seal up some cracks where the walls went together. There will be trim covering these on the outside and wallpaper on the inside, but I just wanted to make sure the cracks wouldn't be visible from any angle.It may not have been necessary for me to do this, but it only took a few minutes. If I weren't using siding on the exterior, it would be much more important.Then I started my siding. I am using birch siding from Corona, which comes in individual strips. I cut several strips to size and started with the front of the house. The siding cuts easily with scissors. The edges can be sanded with an emery board.I'm bad at drawing straight lines, so rather than draw guide lines on the house, I am using a 3/8" wide piece of balsa to make sure that each strip of siding is the correct amount of space away from the one below it.Gluing on, one strip at a time!The strips are curling as I glue them on, so I am putting on a few, weighting them down with paint cans, and waiting them to dry before I do a few more. This is time intensive, obviously, but no more so than gluing on other pieces of the house. Next up, after siding: paint!Compliments of fov