I've done many of these buildings, using white glue for construction. Here are a couple photos
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And here they are on my Silicon Valley Station FreeMo-N module
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The real trick on these buildings is getting the coloring "correct". I've seen too many others who have painted the buildings, and they just look fake. With these, I used stains for the colors, particularly on the brick and stone. They hydrocal looks much more natural that way. The only paint is for the signage (such as the Palace Hotel sign). Other signs are printed, and the paper then thinned by sanding the back. This lets the sign look painted on, and the paper molds itself to the stone.
Use paint sparingly, such as when the owner might actually have painted over the brick.
I also got a bunch of broken "seconds" from Randy, when I was building my desert ghost town. You can see the remaining wall, and empty building in back left
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I still have a bunch of broken parts available, if one wants to experiment with stains, etc.
