Andraste Isolde Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 Hi there, So I'm new to the site and new to building dollhouses. I picked up the Orchid and was really loving it up until the bay window. :/ I'm stuck on test fitting the exterior and interior bases together (7 on instruction sheet). I guess I don't understand how to glue them together (feel so dumb) and the illustration is confusing to me. On the small casings, I have a space on one side and then on the large casing, I have a small lip on either side. Am I supposed to glue them like that and then together as one unit? Any help would be so appreciated! I'm brand spanking new to this and I'm terrified to glue this bay window together. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mid-life madness Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 Welcome Andraste I haven't built this house but I found a thread that might help you. Also, there are detailed instructions that might help you, if you don't already have them: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andraste Isolde Posted March 13, 2021 Author Share Posted March 13, 2021 Thanks for the welcome and response! I've been looking at the detailed instructions and hopefully I can figure it out (I'm more of a visual person). I wonder if I can assemble the bay window together before actually putting together the house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 Andraste, I have built two Orchids, one of them plastic. The narrower frames go on the inside, the wider ones outside. You will want to sand and dry fit them together without gluing to prime & paint or stain them, so you will have the surfaces you will glue (with a good carpenter's wood glue, NOT hot glue) bare wood. You can also do the top & bottom of the bay the same way. I glued the acetate transparencies to the bare side of the interior frames first using clear-drying all-purpose white glue (NOT "school glue"). Then I assembled the exterior frames with the bay top & bottom, and last I glued the interior frames into place. On the wood version I took bamboo skewers and cut them to fit and glued them into the "V" of the window sections and smoothed a dab of spackle over to fill any remaining seams, and when it was thoroughly dry I sanded it all smooth and painted the corners to match the rest of the frame before gluing the interior frames so as not to get paint on the acetate window inserts. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathieB Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 9 hours ago, Andraste Isolde said: I wonder if I can assemble the bay window together before actually putting together the house. I would not. You are going to want to dry-fit the pieces to the opening before gluing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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