What I already wanted to have done back in December, I finally started working on… thanks to having to spend last year's remaining vacation days until end of March. See back in this post - the storage solution for the minis.
I wanted to glue in the floors, which are cut from 5mm beech. As there will be stairs, I first had to measure where I will place them, then make cutouts in the floor; same for the shaft at the bottom right.
After using a saw on all possible cuts, I used a rotary tool for the inner cuts.
Placing the models in different positions, I marked the final layout and drilled 5mm holes to insert 5mm magnets, so once hung up on a wall, no mini will fall out (steel bases rock).
Of course, there is no project with me messing up, so I inserted the magnets on the wrong side of the bottom floor… bummer. I cut out the back of the shaft, turned the strips around and glued three side by side instead of one - which of course leads to weakened structural integrity.
When the glue was dry, I holes in the back (smaller diameter than the nails), and sunk nails through the back wall into the floors, not trusting only the glue.
Next up is doing all the decorations on the piece, after the structural parts are now done.