And why not take the sill off completely? I'm no expert on the subject of Northern American barn architecture, but from what I've gathered watching countless movies is that many of those barns have floors of compacted earth.
I guess that's true for the old barns, but from photos I'd say the more contemporary have a concrete floor. (And then there's the lazy part of me that's growing bigger in this sheltering heat...

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I really like the lasercut base for the postoffice too. Did you use a commercial service, or do you 'have contacts'? And some adds, rates/schedule boards over those holes and nobody will be the wiser...
I have a contact.

A friend has lettering, printing and airbrushing shop and recently acquired a laser cutter. For now he uses it to cut bases (and some movement trays) So I thought it would be a nice test to create a base. The first cut showed I made 1 mistake as the drain cover fell out of the base, but he corrected that.
Look up the Combat Zone newsletter on how to really kitbash a Plasticville set...some of the mods there are amazing.
Will have a look for that.
Where are you getting these Marx "Cars of the Future" repros? I've looked all over and I can never find any.
Ah, I managed to buy 4 sets (of 4) on Ebay a couple of years ago

, but only started painting 'em up recently
