Join Building Fronts into a Coherent Street

A single Siding Works kit already reads as a complete building on its own. Placing two or more kits, or the modules within a single kit, side by side takes a little extra care so the joins between them read as one street rather than as separate unrelated buildings dropped next to each other.

Match your floor line first

Every module in every kit is generated with the same effective depth for the scale you chose, so buildings at the same scale share a common floor line if you set them down on the same flat surface. Decide on that base line before you start gluing any building down, since it's much easier to correct on the baseboard than after buildings are fixed.

Side returns close the gap

Each module's return walls are what let two buildings sit close together without a visible gap: butt the return wall of one module against the return wall or back edge of its neighbour so only the front elevations are visible from the viewing side, rather than leaving a sliver of exposed backing card between them.

Roof lines and heights don't have to match

Station Terrace, Market Street and Goods Yard are each a different real-world height, and Goods Yard's parapet roof sits differently to the pitched-look printed roofs on the other two. A change in roofline between buildings is normal for a real street and doesn't need to be corrected; what matters is that the floor line stays level along the run.

A single kit or the bundle

Within one kit, Station Terrace and Market Street's three modules, or Goods Yard's two, are designed to sit together in the order shown in start-here.pdf. Across kits, the Complete Street bundle combines all three named buildings for exactly this kind of scene; each keeps its own frontage width, so plan the combined run length across all three before you print.

Haven't assembled a single module yet? Start with assembling your first kit, or check available space first in fitting a low relief building behind your tracks.